Pāli Dictionary

Compound structure

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mahāpaduma
  1. mahā

    大;巨大;广大;强大;伟大;尊贵(主要用作 mahanta 的阳性主格单数及复合词前缀)

  2. paduma

    莲花;(特指)红莲或白莲;莲花或莲叶

Encyclopedia

8 entries

  • 一位辟支佛,为王后 Padumavatī 五百子中的首领,众子出生后曾被妒忌的众妃子弃于河中漂流,后奇迹般寻回并归还母亲。

  • A Pacceka Buddha, chief among five hundred sons of Queen Padumavatī who were cast adrift as infants by her jealous co-wives before being miraculously found and restored to her.

  • Kumuda 城的一位王子,受心怀恶意的僧人 Soṇa 唆使弑父,并纵放灌醉的大象欲加害 Piyadassī 佛,最终未能得逞。

  • A prince of Kumuda-nagara who, incited by the hostile monk Soṇa, attempted to kill his own father and, using a drunken elephant, tried and failed to kill the Buddha Piyadassī.

  • 一位辟支佛,历经曲折宿世:曾为比丘因邪淫堕地狱,后因虔诚供养一位辟支佛而奇迹般转生为天界莲花中所生之天子,再降生为一位国王的养子。

  • A Pacceka Buddha whose long chain of past lives ran from a monk reborn in hell for adultery, through devoted almsgiving to a Pacceka Buddha, to a miraculous lotus-birth in the deva world and finally as a king’s adopted son.

  • 天爱帝须王(Devānampiyatissa)的一头大象,曾与 Kuñjara 一同拉犁标定大寺(Mahāvihāra)的疆界。

  • An elephant of King Devānampiyatissa which, together with Kuñjara, drew the plough marking out the boundaries of the Mahāvihāra.

  • 一位本生故事讲述者,曾在 Iḷanāga 王流亡 Rohaṇa 期间为其讲述《猕猴本生》。

  • A reciter of Jātaka stories who related the Kapi Jātaka to King Iḷanāga while the latter was in exile in Rohaṇa.

  • 出席阿努拉德普勒大塔(Mahā Thūpa)奠基典礼的主要长老之一。

  • One of the chief elders present at the foundation ceremony of the Great Stupa in Anurādhapura.

  • 斯里兰卡一位精通律藏的长老,其见解常见于《善见律毘婆沙》引述,亦曾以医术为 Vasabha 王的王后治愈疾病。

  • A Sri Lankan elder renowned for his mastery of the Vinaya, whose opinions are widely cited in the Samantapāsādikā, and who was once consulted, as a physician, to cure the illness of King Vasabha’s queen.

  • 菩萨的一世化身,事见《大莲华本生》。

  • The Bodhisatta in a former birth, as told in the Mahāpaduma Jātaka.

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