Pāli Dictionary
Part of speech
noun · masculine
general
man-god; a divine man (an honorific epithet applied to a king or to the Buddha)
SN 1.11
na te sukhaṃ pajānanti, ye na passanti nandanaṃ, āvāsaṃ naradevānaṃ, tidasānaṃ yasassinan'ti.
Encyclopedia
4 entries
Naradeva
PersonA yakkha who took possession of a man named Kāvinda once a fortnight, making him bark like a dog, until Kāvinda’s son took to shutting him indoors.
Naradeva2
PersonA man-eating yakkha living by a lake near Khemavatī who was visited and converted by the Buddha Kakusandha.
Naradeva3
PersonA yakkha who traveled from city to city killing kings and seizing their harems, eating the women if his identity was discovered, until the Buddha Kassapa converted him at the city of Sunanda.
Naradeva4
OtherThe last in the line of Bhaddadeva’s descendants to reign at Kaṇṇakujja, after whom seven further descendants ruled at Rojanagara.
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