Pāli Dictionary

niraya

nirprefixirootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

i1go; come

Literal

no good fortune

Antonyms


cosmology

  • hell; the hell realm; place of punishment and torment after death (lowest of the destinations of rebirth)

  • SN 25.1

    yaṃ kammaṃ katvā nirayaṃ vā tiracchānayoniṃ vā pettivisayaṃ vā upapajjeyya

  • Snp 2.10

    khaṇātītā hi socanti, nirayamhi samappitā

Encyclopedia

Niraya
Sutta
  • A survey of the various differing lists of hells found across the Pāḷi texts and their commentarial explanations.

Snp 2.6Snp 2.10

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