Pāli Dictionary

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mahāpaduma
  1. mahā

    大;巨大;廣大;強大;偉大;尊貴(主要用作 mahanta 的陽性主格單數及複合詞前綴)

  2. paduma

    蓮花;(特指)紅蓮或白蓮;蓮花或蓮葉

Encyclopedia

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  • 一位辟支佛,為王后 Padumavatī 五百子中的首領,眾子出生後曾被妒忌的眾妃子棄於河中漂流,後奇蹟般尋回並歸還母親。

  • 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,受心懷惡意的僧人 Soṇa 唆使弒父,並縱放灌醉的大象欲加害 Piyadassī 佛,最終未能得逞。

  • 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,歷經曲折宿世:曾為比丘因邪淫墮地獄,後因虔誠供養一位辟支佛而奇蹟般轉生為天界蓮花中所生之天子,再降生為一位國王的養子。

  • 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.

  • 天愛帝須王(Devānampiyatissa)的一頭大象,曾與 Kuñjara 一同拉犁標定大寺(Mahāvihāra)的疆界。

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

  • 一位本生故事講述者,曾在 Iḷanāga 王流亡 Rohaṇa 期間為其講述《獼猴本生》。

  • 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)奠基典禮的主要長老之一。

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

  • 斯里蘭卡一位精通律藏的長老,其見解常見於《善見律毘婆沙》引述,亦曾以醫術為 Vasabha 王的王后治癒疾病。

  • 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.

  • 菩薩的一世化身,事見《大蓮華本生》。

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

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