Pāli Dictionary
general
柱；支柱（元は供犠用の柱）
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
approximategeneral
柱、支柱；特に犠牲祭の柱；また木の幹
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.
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Thūṇa
Personマッジマデーサ西端の婆羅門村。敵意を抱く村人たちは訪れた仏陀への水と歓待を拒もうとしたが、水を差し出して処刑された婢女が忉利天に生まれ変わり、仏陀の神通力で村の井戸が溢れ出し村人たちは折れた。
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.
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