Pāli Dictionary

makhādeva

makhāstemdevastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Synonyms

maghadeva, vāsava, māgha, sahassanetta, sahassakkha

general

  • DPDではサッカ（帝釈天）の異名とされるが、より一般的にはミティラー国の賢王マカーデーヴァを指し、初めての白髪を見て出家した王（MN83）；彼にちなむマンゴー林の名でもある

  • a proper name: in DPD given as an epithet of Sakka; more commonly, the righteous king Makhādeva/Maghadeva of Mithilā who renounced the throne on seeing a grey hair (MN 83); also a mango grove named after him

Encyclopedia

Maghādeva Sutta
Suttamatched via “Makhādeva”

  • マンゴー林のある場所で微笑んだ仏が、初めて白髪を見て世を捨てた王の話をアーナンダに語り、その王の伝統が梵天界へ導くのみだったのに対し、自らの教えは完全な悟りへ導くと説明する経。

  • A discourse in which the Buddha, smiling at a certain spot in a mango grove, tells Ānanda the story of a king who renounced the world on seeing his first grey hair, explaining that while that king’s tradition led only to the Brahmā world, the Buddha’s own teaching leads to full enlightenment.

MN 83

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