Pāli Dictionary
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Compound structure

analyses: 4

mahākālā
  1. mahā

    great; large; vast; powerful; eminent; noble (used chiefly as the masculine nominative singular of mahanta and as the first member of compounds)

  2. kālākāla

    time; period; occasion; season

mahāakālā
  1. mahā

    great; large; vast; powerful; eminent; noble (used chiefly as the masculine nominative singular of mahanta and as the first member of compounds)

  2. akālāakāla

    an inappropriate/unsuitable time; not the (proper) time (for something)

mahiakālā
  1. mahimahī

    the (mighty) earth; the vast world

  2. akālāakāla

    an inappropriate/unsuitable time; not the (proper) time (for something)

mahoakālā
  1. mahomaha

    a religious festival; ceremony; offering; act of worship

  2. akālāakāla

    an inappropriate/unsuitable time; not the (proper) time (for something)

Encyclopedia

5 entries

  • A merchant of Setabyā, eldest of three brothers, who joined the Order after hearing the Buddha teach and attained Arahantship through meditating on a corpse’s remains arranged for him by a cremation-ground attendant.

Thag 2.16
  • A lay Stream-winner of Sāvatthi who, after keeping the uposatha vows overnight, was mistakenly beaten to death as a thief when stolen goods were dumped near him, an echo of a similar frame-up he himself had orchestrated in a past life.

  • A long-lived Nāga king who witnessed all four Buddhas of the present world-cycle, created a lifelike image of the Buddha for King Asoka, and guarded the Buddha’s relics from Rāmagāma until they were taken from him.

  • One of the seven mountains surrounding Gandhamādana.

Mahākāla
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  • A householder of Bandhumatī in the time of the Buddha Vipassī and a previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña, who with his brother Cūḷakāḷa offered the Buddha the first fruits of their harvest at nine stages of its growth.

Thag 2.16

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