Pāli Dictionary

subrahma

suprefixbrahrootmasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

brah1増加


cosmology

  • スブラフマ(ある神の名。後代の伝承ではバラモンや辟支仏の名としても用いられる)

  • Subrahma, name of a deity/deva (also borne by other figures in later tradition, e.g. a brahmin and a paccekabuddha)

  • SN 2.17

    ekam'antaṃ ṭhito kho subrahmā devaputto bhagavantaṃ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi

  • DN 20

    subrahmā paramatto ca, puttā iddhimato saha, sanaṅkumāro tisso ca, s'opāga samitiṃ vanaṃ.

Encyclopedia

3 entries

Subrahmā
Personapproximate
  • 五百人の天の仲間が突然死んでアヴィーチ地獄に転生し、自分自身も余命わずか七日であることを知った天子で、悲嘆に暮れて仏陀を訪ね預流者となった。

  • A devaputta who, discovering that five hundred of his heavenly companions had suddenly perished and been reborn in Avīci and that he himself had only seven days left to live, sought the Buddha in grief and became a Stream-winner.

Subrahmā2
Personapproximate
  • 傲慢な仲間の梵天を謙虚にさせるため神通力を示し、コーカーリカとカタモーダカティッサの愚かさを暴くためにも介入した、パッチェーカ梵天であり仏陀の追随者。

  • A Pacceka Brahmā and follower of the Buddha who used a display of magic power to humble an arrogant fellow Brahmā, and who also intervened to expose the folly of Kokālika and Katamodakatissa.

DN 20
Subrahmā3
Personapproximate
  • 未来のメッテイヤ仏の父となる運命にあるバラモンで、『マハーヴァンサ』はカーカヴァンナティッサと同定する。

  • A brahmin destined to be the father of the future Buddha Metteyya, and identified by the Mahāvaṃsa with Kākavaṇṇatissa.

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