Pāli Dictionary

piṅgala1

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • 赤褐色的；黃褐色的

  • tawny brown; reddish-yellow; sallow

  • SN 7.10

    na hi nūn'imassa samaṇassa, piṅgalā tilakāhatā, sottaṃ pādena bodheti, ten'āyaṃ samaṇo sukhī.

piṅgala2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 一種大象（赤褐色象種）之名

  • name for a type of elephant (a tawny-brown elephant-breed)

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Piṅgala
Other

  • 指向《大賓伽羅本生》（Mahāpiṅgala Jātaka）的參見條目。

  • A cross-reference to the Mahāpiṅgala Jātaka, where this figure’s story is told.

Piṅgala2
Other

  • 一位殺牛為業的獵人，是阿羅多（Alāta）的前生。

  • A cattle-killing huntsman who was a former existence of Alāta.

Piṅgala3
Person

  • 蘇羅陀（Suraṭṭha）國王，法阿育王（Dhammāsoka）的顧問，餓鬼難陀迦（Nandaka，優多羅 Uttarā 之父）現身勸導他遵循佛陀教法。

  • A king of Suraṭṭha and adviser to Dhammāsoka who was instructed to follow the Buddha’s teaching by the hungry ghost Nandaka, father of Uttarā.

Piṅgala4
Other

  • 一種象族，據說每頭具有十萬人之力。

  • A race of elephants, each said to possess the strength of one hundred thousand men.

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