Pāli Dictionary

mahāsena

mahāprefixsenārootasuffix

Part of speech

adjective


general

  • 擁有大軍的,統領強大軍隊的

  • having a great army; commanding a mighty military force

  • MN 131

    ajj'eva kiccam'ātappaṃ, ko jaññā maraṇaṃ suve, na hi no saṅgaraṃ tena, mahāsenena maccunā.

Encyclopedia

5 entries

Mahāsena
Person
  • 旖多摩底天宮的一位天神,應帝釋天與阿說迦長老之請,轉生人間成為那先比丘。

  • A deity of the Ketumatī Palace who, at the request of Sakka and the elder Assagutta, took rebirth in the human world as the monk Nāgasena.

  • 一位貧窮的婆羅門,是舍利弗之父婆羅門婆羅蹉的友人,舍利弗曾親自登門乞食於他,他死後轉生為森林住者帝須沙彌。

  • A poor brahmin, friend of Sāriputta’s father Vaṅganta, who was visited for alms by Sāriputta himself and, after death, reborn as the novice Vanavāsī Tissa.

  • 公元四世紀的斯里蘭卡國王,瞿多婆耶王之子,起初偏袒無畏山派而打壓大寺派,後轉而成為大寺派的護持者,並建造祇陀林寺及眾多蓄水池與運河。

  • A king of Sri Lanka in the fourth century, son of Goṭhakābhaya, who at first favoured the Abhayagiri fraternity at the expense of the Mahāvihāra but later became its patron, and who built the Jetavana monastery and numerous tanks and canals.

  • 統治華氏城的一位印度國王,每日供養千名比丘,仍嫌不足,還曾隱姓埋名到北摩偷羅做工以賺取更多佈施之資。

  • A king of India who ruled at Pāṭaliputta, feeding a thousand monks daily and, not content with that, labouring incognito at Uttaramadhurā to earn additional funds for alms-giving.

  • 華氏城的一位國王,曾與其妹親自勞作,以所得供養五百位來自比揚古提婆的比丘。

  • A king of Pāṭaliputta who, together with his sister, laboured with his own hands to earn alms for five hundred monks from Piyaṅgudīpa.

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