Pāli Dictionary

paduma

padastemumasuffix

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Synonyms


general

  • lotus; (specifically) pink lotus or white lotus; lotus flower or leaf

  • MN 152

    seyyathā'pi, ānanda, īsakaṃpoṇe padumapalāse udakaphusitāni pavattanti

  • Snp 4.6

    udabindu yathā'pi pokkhare, padume vāri yathā na limpati, evaṃ muni n'opalimpati, yadidaṃ diṭṭhasutaṃ mutesu vā.

  • a high numeral; 10¹¹⁹ (a number with 119 zeros)

  • proper name; name of a Buddha (e.g., the 17th previous Buddha, a Pacceka Buddha), a person, a palace, etc.

  • MN 152

    seyyathā'pi, ānanda, īsakaṃpoṇe padumapalāse udakaphusitāni pavattanti

  • Snp 4.6

    udabindu yathā'pi pokkhare, padume vāri yathā na limpati, evaṃ muni n'opalimpati, yadidaṃ diṭṭhasutaṃ mutesu vā.

cosmology

  • the Paduma hell; a part of the Avīci hell where one suffers for a paduma-count of years

Encyclopedia

25 entries

Paduma
Person
  • A cross-reference to Paduma Buddha, the eighth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

Paduma2
Person
  • One of the chief lay disciples of Revata Buddha.

Paduma3
Person
  • One of the three palaces occupied by Sobhita Buddha before his renunciation.

Paduma4
Person
  • A step-brother of Dhammadassī Buddha who became his chief disciple.

Paduma5
Place
  • A palace occupied by Siddhattha Buddha.

Paduma6
Person
  • A Pacceka Buddha who received an offering of ākulī flowers from the monk Anūpama in a past life.

MN 116
Paduma7
Other
  • A universal monarch from eight world-cycles ago, a past life of the elder Piṇḍola-Bhāradvāja.

Paduma8
Place
  • A lotus-shaped shrine built by Mahā-Kaccāna in a past life in honor of Padumuttara Buddha.

Paduma9
Person
  • An Arahant who, in a past life, offered a lotus flower to Padumuttara Buddha as he passed through the air, later becoming a king among devas and men for many lifetimes.

Paduma10
Person
  • A period of intense suffering, not a separate hell, into which the monk Kokālika was said to be reborn.

  • A rock formation near the Himālayan region.

  • An elder who assisted at the foundation-laying ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa.

Paduma13
Person
  • The Bodhisatta born as king of Bārāṇasī, as told in the Cūḷapaduma Jātaka.

Paduma14
Person
  • The Bodhisatta born as the son of the king of Bārāṇasī, as told in the Mahāpaduma Jātaka.

  • A cross-reference to Mahāpaduma.

Paduma16
Person
  • The eighth of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in Campaka and said to have caused a shower of lotus blossoms across the land at his birth.

Padumā
Personapproximate
  • The chief among the women patrons of the Buddha Anomadassī.

Padumā2
Personapproximate
  • The chief among the lay women supporters of the Buddha Sujāta.

Padumā3
Personapproximate
  • The mother of the Buddha Tissa.

Padumā4
Personapproximate
  • The chief among the women patrons of the Buddha Phussa.

Padumā5
Personapproximate
  • One of the chief women disciples of the Buddha Sikhī.

Padumā6
Personapproximate
  • The wife of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara during his final life as a layman.

Padumā7
Personapproximate
  • A distinguished lay woman follower of the Buddha, wife of Meṇḍaka, whose full name was Candapadumā.

Padumā8
Personapproximate
  • A distinguished Therī of Sri Lanka.

Padumā9
Personapproximate
  • One of the chief women disciples of the future Buddha Metteyya.

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