Pāli Dictionary

naradeva

narastemdevastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • 人神、神のごとき人(王または仏陀への敬称)

  • 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
Person
  • 半月ごとにカーヴィンダという男に取り憑き、犬のように吠えさせた夜叉。ついにはカーヴィンダの息子が彼を屋内に閉じ込めるようになった。

  • A 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
Person
  • ケーマヴァティー近くの湖畔に住む人食い夜叉で、拘留孫仏(カクサンダ仏)が訪れて教化した。

  • A man-eating yakkha living by a lake near Khemavatī who was visited and converted by the Buddha Kakusandha.

Naradeva3
Person
  • 都市から都市へと渡り歩いて王を殺しその後宮を奪い、正体が露見すると女たちを食べていた夜叉。ついにスナンダの町で迦葉仏(カッサパ仏)が彼を教化した。

  • A 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.

  • カンナクッジャで統治したバッダデーヴァの子孫の系譜における最後の者で、彼の後さらに七代の子孫がロージャナガラで統治した。

  • The last in the line of Bhaddadeva’s descendants to reign at Kaṇṇakujja, after whom seven further descendants ruled at Rojanagara.

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