Pāli Dictionary

vaḍḍhamāna1

vaḍḍhastemmānasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

vaḍḍh1增長；增大

general

  • 生长的；增长的；兴盛的

  • 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

  • 人名，一位阿罗汉比丘（也用作古锡兰若干地名）

  • 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

  • 毘舍离离车王族出身的阿罗汉，因犯戒被处以覆钵之罚而悲伤出家，后佛陀以一偈激励其克服懈怠，遂证得阿罗汉果。

  • 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

  • 拘那含牟尼佛时代斯里兰卡的都城，其王为萨弥陀。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna3
Place

  • 摩诃伽摩境内的一座城市，未来的杜特伽摩尼王甫出生便被封为此地之主，也是一则猎人误将布施奉予恶比丘的故事发生地。

  • 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

  • 斯里兰卡的一棵菩提树，附有一座寺院，后世两位国王曾先后加以修复。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna5
Place

  • 未来弥勒佛将居住的宫殿。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna6
Place

  • 斯里兰卡的一个地区，由萨达提沙王赐予同名的大臣。

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

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