Pāli Dictionary

sarabhū

Part of speech

noun · feminine

general

  • 河名，古印度五大河之一

  • name of a river; one of the five great rivers of ancient India

  • Ud 5.5

    puna caparaṃ, bhikkhave, yā kāci mahānadiyo, seyyath'idaṃ gaṅgā yamunā aciravatī sarabhū mahī, tā mahāsamuddaṃ patvā jahanti purimāni nāmagottāni, mahāsamuddo'tv'eva saṅkhaṃ gacchanti

  • Thag 1.38

    yo iddhiyā sarabhuṃ aṭṭhapesi, so gavampati asito anejo, taṃ sabbasaṅg'ātigataṃ mahāmuniṃ, devā namassanti bhavassa pāragun'ti.

  • 蜥蜴（另一較少見的詞義，見於 PTS 詞典）

  • a lizard (a distinct sense attested in the PTS dictionary)

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Sarabhū
Person

  • 舍利弗的弟子，佛陀涅槃後將佛陀的鎖骨舍利帶至斯里蘭卡，安奉於摩醯揚伽那塔中。

  • A disciple of Sāriputta who, after the Buddha’s death, carried the Buddha’s collar bone relic to Sri Lanka and enshrined it in the Mahiyaṅgana cetiya.

Sarabhū2
Other

  • 北印度五大河流之一，構成拘薩羅南北兩部分的界河，流經娑雞多，梵語稱娑羅逾（Sarayū）。

  • One of the five great rivers of northern India, forming the boundary between northern and southern Kosala and flowing past Sāketa; known in Sanskrit as the Sarayū.

Sarabhū3
Place

  • 斯里蘭卡富那筏檀那蓄水池向北分出的一條灌溉水道。

  • An irrigation channel branching north from the Puṇṇavaḍḍhana reservoir in Sri Lanka.

AN 10.15Ud 5.5

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