Pāli Dictionary

sālī

approximate

via inflected form sāliyā · instrumental singular

Part of speech

adjective


general

  • possessing; abounding in; full of

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Sāliya
Person
  • The only son of King Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, who renounced the throne to marry an outcaste girl and, in a former birth as a smith, had offered a meal with pork to eight Arahants, an act said to explain his name from the abundant paddy that filled Sri Lanka on his birth day.

  • A minister of King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī who built the Sāliyārāma monastery.

  • An ox mentioned in the Gandhatinduka Jātaka.

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