Pāli Dictionary
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Compound structure

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sumittā
  1. su

    well; good; right; thoroughly; very (prefix)

  2. mittā

    friend; companion

Encyclopedia

9 entries

Sumitta
Person
  • An Ājīvaka who gave grass for a seat to Padumuttara Buddha.

Sumitta2
Person
  • The son of Sumedha Buddha during the Buddha’s last life as a layman.

Sumitta3
Person
  • Brother of Sambahula and king of Amaranagara who entered the Order and became a chief disciple of Siddhattha Buddha.

Sumitta4
Person
  • A king who reigned one hundred and thirty world-cycles ago, a previous birth of the elder Nāgita.

Sumitta5
Person
  • A sage of Kāsī, a former birth of Mahā-Kassapa, whose wife was Bhaddā-Kāpilānī.

Sumitta6
Person
  • The younger brother of Vijaya and son of Sīhabāhu, who reigned in Sīhapura and, invited by Vijaya to succeed to the throne in Sri Lanka, sent his son Paṇḍuvāsudeva in his place.

Sumitta7
Person
  • The younger son of Kuntikinnarī who, ordained together with his brother Tissa, attained Arahantship, and who himself died while walking in meditation in the eighth year of Asoka’s reign, after his brother had earlier died from a venomous insect bite for want of ghee.

Sumittā
Otherapproximate
  • One of the five daughters of King Vijayabāhu I and Queen Tilokasundarī, who married Jayabāhu.

Sumittā2
Otherapproximate
  • A previous-birth name of Yasodharā, the mother of Rāhula.

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