Pāli Dictionary

majjhantika

majjhastemantastemikasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • 正午、真昼

  • noon; midday

  • SN 12.63

    atha rājā majjh'antikaṃ samayaṃ evaṃ vadeyya, ambho kathaṃ so puriso'ti?

Encyclopedia

  • マヒンダに具足戒を授け、後にカシミール・ガンダーラへ布教僧として派遣され、そこで竜王アラヴァーラを制圧して改宗させ、十万人に授戒を与えた阿羅漢。

  • An Arahant who conferred ordination on Mahinda and was later sent as a missionary teacher to Kasmīra-Gandhāra, where he subdued and converted the Nāga king Aravāḷa and ordained a hundred thousand people.

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