Pāli Dictionary

suppabuddha

suprefixpaprefixbudhroottasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

budh3to know; to wake up

general

  • a proper name (lit. ‘well awakened’); esp. a leper of Rājagaha who attained stream-entry hearing the Buddha, also a Sākiyan prince (father-in-law of the Buddha, father of Devadatta)

  • Ud 5.3

    tena kho pana samayena rājagahe suppabuddho nāma kuṭṭhī ahosi, manussadaliddo, manussakapaṇo, manussavarāko.

Encyclopedia

4 entries

Suppabuddha
Person

  • A Sakyan prince and the Buddha’s father-in-law, who, embittered over his daughter’s abandonment and his son Devadatta’s hostility toward the Buddha, was swallowed up by the earth after obstinately blocking the Buddha’s path.

Suppabuddha2
Person

  • A poor leper of Rājagaha who became a Stream-winner after hearing the Buddha teach, rebuffed Sakka’s attempt to tempt him with wealth to abandon his faith, and was later gored to death by a vengeful ogress in the form of a cow.

Ud 5.3·Attains stream-entry
Suppabuddha3
Person

  • The son of Vessabhū Buddha during his final life as a layman before renunciation.

Suppabuddha4
Person

  • A king of fifty-seven world-cycles ago who was a former birth of the elder Eraka Thera.

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