Pāli Dictionary

rohitassa

rohitaprefixassasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • Rohitassa, a devaputta (formerly a sage) who asked the Buddha about reaching the end of the world

  • AN 4.45

    bhūtapubb'āhaṃ, bhante, rohitasso nāma isi ahosiṃ bhojaputto iddhimā vehāsaṅ'gamo.

rohita

via inflected form rohitassa · dative singular / genitive singular

Part of speech

adjective · masculine


general

  • red; reddish

  • a kind of deer (red deer)

  • a kind of fish (Cyprinus/Labeo rohita, the ‘red fish’)

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Rohitassa
Person
  • A deity who, in a former life a sage able to stride across oceans, asked the Buddha whether travel could reach the world’s end free of birth and death, and learned that this end is found only within the body through the path.

AN 4.45
  • A sage described as the son of a villager, referred to under the deity Rohitassa’s account of his past life.

Rohitassā
Personapproximate
  • The legendary inhabitants of Rājagaha in the time of the Buddha Koṇāgamana, when Mount Vepulla was called Vaṅkaka and lived thirty thousand years, taking three days to climb the mountain and three to descend it.

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