Pāli Dictionary

sīlava

approximate

sīlrootasuffixvantsuffixasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

sīl1conduct oneself; practise

ethics

  • virtuous; ethical; moral; possessing virtue (equivalent to sīlavant)

  • Thag 12.1

    itthaṃ sudaṃ āyasmā sīlavo thero gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

general

  • Sīlava; name of several individuals, including an arahant monk, the Bodhisatta as king of Benares and as an elephant, and a son of Mangala Buddha

  • Thag 12.1

    itthaṃ sudaṃ āyasmā sīlavo thero gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

sīlavant

sīlastemvantsuffix

via inflected form sīlavā · nominative singular · plural / vocative singular

Part of speech

adjective

Root

sīl1conduct oneself; practise

Synonyms

dhammaṭṭha, kalyāṇasīla, susīla

ethics

  • virtuous; ethical; observing the moral precepts

  • Kp 9

    diṭṭhiñ'ca anupaggamma, sīlavā dassanena sampanno, kāmesu vineyya gedhaṃ, na hi jātu gabbhaseyya punaretī'ti.

  • AN 8.13

    idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti, pātimokkhasaṃvarasaṃvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī, samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

silāeva
  1. silā

    stone; rock

  2. eva

    only; just; merely; exclusively (restrictive emphatic particle)

silaiva
  1. silasilā

    stone; rock

  2. iva

    like; as; as if, as it were

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Sīlavā
Person

  • A son of King Bimbisāra whom his brother Ajātasattu tried to kill, but who instead joined the Order at the Buddha’s invitation and attained Arahantship, later converting even the assassins sent against him.

Sīlava
Personapproximate

  • A former birth of the Bodhisatta as a king of Bārāṇasī, told in the Mahāsīlava Jātaka.

Sīlava2
Personapproximate

  • A former birth of the Bodhisatta as an elephant king, told in the Sīlavanāgarāja Jātaka.

Sīlava3
Personapproximate

  • The son of Maṅgala Buddha during his final life as a layman, also called Sīvala.

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