Pāli Dictionary

sanaṅkumāra

sanaṃprefixkumārastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • サナンクマーラ（常に若々しい大梵天の一つ）

  • Sanaṅkumāra, a Mahābrahmā (a high brahma deity, literally “ever-youthful”)

  • MN 53

    sā kho pan'esā, mahānāma, brahmunā sanaṅkumārena gāthā sugītā no duggītā, subhāsitā no dubbhāsitā, atthasaṃhitā no anatthasaṃhitā, anumatā bhagavatā'ti.

Encyclopedia

Sanaṅkumāra
Person

  • 偉大な梵天であり仏の敬虔な信奉者で、智慧と徳の優れた者を讃える偈で名高く、神々の集会に語りかける際には乾闥婆 Pañcasikha の姿を現した。

  • A great Brahmā deity and devout follower of the Buddha, famed for a verse on the superiority of the wise and virtuous, who would take on the visible form of the gandhabba Pañcasikha when addressing assemblies of devas.

DN 20MN 53

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