Pāli Dictionary

vaḍḍhamāna1

vaḍḍhastemmānasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

vaḍḍh1grow; increase

general

  • growing; developing; increasing; prospering

  • SN 37.34

    pañcahi, bhikkhave, vaḍḍhīhi vaḍḍhamānā ariyasāvikā ariyāya vaḍḍhiyā vaḍḍhati sār'ādāyinī ca hoti var'ādāyinī ca kāyassa. katamehi pañcahi?

vaḍḍhamāna2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • name of an Arahant monk (also of several places in ancient Ceylon)

  • Thag 1.40

    gahvaratīriyo suppiyo, sopāko c'eva posiyo, sāmaññakāni kumāputto, kumāputtasahāyako, gavampati tissatthero, vaḍḍhamāno mahāyaso'ti.

Encyclopedia

6 entries

Vaḍḍhamāna
Person

  • An Arahant from a Licchavi rājā’s family in Vesāli who joined the Order in grief after being sentenced to the overturned almsbowl for an offence, and became an Arahant after the Buddha roused him from sloth with a verse.

Thag 1.40
Vaḍḍhamāna2
Place

  • The capital of Sri Lanka in the time of Koṇāgamana Buddha, whose king was Samiddha.

Vaḍḍhamāna3
Place

  • A city in Mahāgāma where the future king Duṭṭhagāmaṇī was appointed chief soon after his birth, also the setting of a story about a hunter’s misdirected alms-giving to a wicked monk.

Vaḍḍhamāna4
Other

  • A Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka with an attached temple that was restored twice by later kings.

Vaḍḍhamāna5
Place

  • The palace destined to be occupied by the future Buddha Metteyya.

Vaḍḍhamāna6
Place

  • A district in Sri Lanka granted by King Saddhātissa to his minister of the same name.

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