Pāli Dictionary

rohiṇī

Part of speech

noun · feminine


general

  • red; reddish (used in names of certain red-coloured plants and animals, e.g. a red cow); also the name of a lunar mansion and of a river

Encyclopedia

7 entries

Rohiṇī
Person
  • A brahmin’s daughter of Vesāli who, after becoming a Stream-winner on hearing the Buddha teach, entered the Order and attained Arahantship, leaving verses recalling an earlier debate with her father.

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  • Anuruddha Thera’s sister, who suffered from a skin disease brought on by a jealous act in a past life, but was cured by the Buddha and restored to beauty after building an assembly hall for the monks at her brother’s urging.

  • A small river separating the Sakyan and Koliyan peoples, where the Buddha personally intervened to avert a war between them over irrigation water during a drought.

  • An asterism under which the planting of the Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka was ceremonially performed.

  • A city that was the birthplace of the elder Paccaya Thera.

  • A slave woman of Anāthapiṇḍika whose story is told in the Rohiṇī Jātaka.

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  • An alternate reference to Rohita.

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