Pāli Dictionary
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very auspicious; propitious; highly beneficial
AN 3.155
sunakkhattaṃ sumaṅgalaṃ, suppabhātaṃ suvuṭṭhitaṃ, sukhaṇo sumuhutto ca, suyiṭṭhaṃ brahmacārisu.
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Sumaṅgala
PersonA chief disciple (aggasāvaka) of Dīpaṅkara Buddha.
Sumaṅgala2
PersonA 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.
Sumaṅgala3
PlaceThe city where the Buddha Sujāta was born and later gave his first discourse in its park.
Sumaṅgala4
PlaceThe city where the Buddha Piyadassī taught Pālita and Sabbadassī, who later became his chief disciples.
Sumaṅgala5
PersonA king who lived seven hundred world-cycles ago, a former birth of the elder Susārada.
Sumaṅgala6
PersonThe name borne by several kings nineteen world-cycles ago, all former births of the elder Khitaka.
Sumaṅgala7
PersonA 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.
Sumaṅgala8
PersonAn 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.
Sumaṅgala10
PlaceA park keeper of the king of Bārāṇasī in the Jātaka tales, identified with Ānanda.
Sumaṅgala11
PersonA monk of Sri Lanka, pupil of a teacher named Sāriputta, who wrote the subcommentary Abhidhammatthavibhāvinī on the Abhidhammāvatāra and the Sāratthasālinī on the Saccasaṅkhepa.
Sumaṅgala12
PersonThe tenth of the future Buddhas to arise after Metteyya.
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