Pāli Dictionary

sānu1

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • サーヌ（悪霊に取り憑かれた少年の名、サーヌ経）

  • 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

  • サーヌ（阿羅漢長老の名）

  • Sānu, name of an arahant elder

  • Thag 1.44

    itthaṃ sudaṃ āyasmā sānutthero gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

sānu3

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 高原；山の背；山頂

  • a table land; a ridge; mountain-top

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

sanu
  1. sa

    自分の；自身の；個人の（再帰代名詞または形容詞、サンスクリット語 sva またはパーリ語 saka と同等）

  2. nu

    疑問・推量・反語の助詞；～だろうか、いったい、果たして、まさか（疑問詞と結びつくことが多い）

Encyclopedia

Sānu
Person

  • 母によって七歳で出家した沙弥で、宗教生活への熱意を失ったが、前世で夜叉の母であった存在から警告を受けた実母が泣いて叱責したことで感化され、阿羅漢果を得るに至った

  • 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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