Pāli Dictionary

sānu1

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • Sānu, name of a boy said to have been possessed by a spirit (Sānu Sutta)

  • SN 10.5

    tena kho pana samayena aññatarissā upāsikāya sānu nāma putto yakkhena gahito hoti.

sānu2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • Sānu, name of an arahant elder

  • Thag 1.44

    itthaṃ sudaṃ āyasmā sānutthero gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

sānu3

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • a table land; a ridge; mountain-top

approximate

Compound structure

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sanu
  1. sa

    own; one’s own; self; personal (reflexive pronoun or adjective, equivalent to Sanskrit sva or Pali saka)

  2. nu

    interrogative and dubitative particle; whether, indeed, I wonder, on earth (often combined with interrogative pronouns)

Encyclopedia

Sānu
Person

  • A novice ordained at seven by his mother, who lost his zeal for the religious life and was brought back to it when his mother, warned by his former yakkha-mother in a past life, wept and reproached him, moving him to attain Arahantship.

Thag 1.44

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