Pāli Dictionary

sumaṅgala

suprefixmaṅgrootalasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Synonyms


general

  • very auspicious; propitious; highly beneficial

  • AN 3.155

    sunakkhattaṃ sumaṅgalaṃ, suppabhātaṃ suvuṭṭhitaṃ, sukhaṇo sumuhutto ca, suyiṭṭhaṃ brahmacārisu.

Encyclopedia

12 entries

  • A chief disciple (aggasāvaka) of Dīpaṅkara Buddha.

  • A chief lay patron of Kassapa Buddha who, after suffering repeated arson and vandalism at the hands of a resentful thief, publicly forgave him at an almsgiving, moving the thief to remorse.

  • The city where the Buddha Sujāta was born and later gave his first discourse in its park.

  • The city where the Buddha Piyadassī taught Pālita and Sabbadassī, who later became his chief disciples.

  • A king who lived seven hundred world-cycles ago, a former birth of the elder Susārada.

  • The name borne by several kings nineteen world-cycles ago, all former births of the elder Khitaka.

  • A poor villager near Sāvatthi who joined the Order hoping for an easy life, nearly gave up meditation, but on seeing labourers toiling in the heat renewed his effort and attained Arahantship.

Thag 1.43
  • An Arahant who, in a past life as a brahmin preparing a great sacrifice, instead offered all his provisions to the Buddha Piyadassī and a thousand Arahants who arrived at his door.

  • A Pacceka Buddha.

MN 116
  • A park keeper of the king of Bārāṇasī in the Jātaka tales, identified with Ānanda.

  • A monk of Sri Lanka, pupil of a teacher named Sāriputta, who wrote the subcommentary Abhidhammatthavibhāvinī on the Abhidhammāvatāra and the Sāratthasālinī on the Saccasaṅkhepa.

  • The tenth of the future Buddhas to arise after Metteyya.

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