Pāli Dictionary

thūṇa

thurootuṇasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

thu5moan; groan

Synonyms

thambha

general

  • a pillar; post; column (originally a sacrificial post)

  • Ud 6.4

    yehi, bhikkhave, jacc'andhehi hatthissa pādo diṭṭho ahosi, te evam'āhaṃsu, ediso, deva, hatthī seyyathā'pi thūṇo'ti.

thūṇā

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

yūpa

general

  • a post, pillar; especially a sacrificial post; also a tree trunk

  • SN 3.9

    tena kho pana samayena rañño pasenadissa kosalassa mahāyañño paccupaṭṭhito hoti, pañca ca usabhasatāni pañca ca vacchatarasatāni pañca ca vacchatarisatāni pañca ca ajasatāni pañca ca urabbhasatāni thūṇ'ūpanītāni honti yaññ'atthāya.

  • AN 4.195

    seyyathā'pi, vappa, thūṇaṃ paṭicca chāyā paññāyati. atha puriso āgaccheyya kuddālapiṭakaṃ ādāya. so taṃ thūṇaṃ mūle chindeyya, mūle chinditvā palikhaṇeyya, palikhaṇitvā mūlāni uddhareyya, antamaso usīranāḷimattāni'pi.

Encyclopedia

Thūṇa
Person

  • A brahmin village on the western edge of Majjhimadesa whose hostile inhabitants tried to deny the visiting Buddha water and hospitality, until a slave woman who offered him a drink, though killed for it, was reborn in Tāvatiṃsa, and the Buddha’s power caused the village wells to overflow until the people relented.

Ud 7.9

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