Pāli Dictionary

puṇṇaka1

pūrrootnasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

pūr1fill; fulfil


cosmology

  • Puṇṇaka, a yakkha chieftain (nephew of Vessavaṇa)

  • DN 32

    sātāgiro hemavato, puṇṇako karatiyo guḷo, sivako mucalindo ca, vessāmitto yugan'dharo.

puṇṇaka2

pūrrootnasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine


doctrine

  • Puṇṇaka, a brahmin ascetic, disciple of Bāvarī

  • Snp 5.4

    anejaṃ mūladassāviṃ, (icc'āyasmā puṇṇako) atthi pañhena āgamaṃ, kiṃ nissitā isayo manujā, khattiyā brāhmaṇā devatānaṃ, yaññam'akappayiṃsu puthū'dha loke, pucchāmi taṃ bhagavā brūhi me taṃ.

Encyclopedia

8 entries

  • One of the stallions belonging to King Ekarāja.

  • One of the sixteen disciples of Bāvarī who questioned the Buddha and, together with his thousand followers, attained Arahantship at the end of the discourse.

AN 4.41Snp 5.4
  • A yakkha chief, nephew of Vessavaṇa, who in the Vidhura Jātaka won the Nāga maiden Irandatī and is counted among the yakkha chiefs invoked for protection in the Āṭānāṭiya Sutta.

DN 32
  • A king who lived twenty-five world-cycles ago in a former birth of the elder Asanabodhiya.

Tha Ap 404
  • A name noted as not being associated with high social station.

  • A cross-reference entry noting the related name Puṇṇa, and identifying the Puṇṇaka Jātaka as another name for the Vidhura Jātaka.

Puṇṇa
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  • A merchant’s son of Suppāraka in Sunāparanta who joined the Order in Sāvatthi, received a brief teaching from the Buddha now known as the Puṇṇovāda Sutta, and returned home to attain Arahantship and win many converts.

SN 35.88·Attains arahantship
Puṇṇa2
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  • A once-poor laborer of Rājagaha who, after giving alms to Sāriputta, saw his ploughed field turn to gold and was made a millionaire by the king, becoming the father of Uttarā Nandamātā.

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