Pāli Dictionary

niraya

nirprefixirootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

i1行く;来る

Literal

no good fortune

Antonyms


cosmology

  • 地獄;泥犁(死後に苦を受ける悪趣)

  • 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
  • パーリ聖典全体に見られる地獄の様々な異なる一覧とその注釈的説明の概観。

  • 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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