Pāli Dictionary

vaḍḍhamāna1

vaḍḍhastemmānasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

vaḍḍh1增長；增大

general

  • 生長的；增長的；興盛的

  • 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，一位阿羅漢比丘（也用作古錫蘭若干地名）

  • 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

  • 毘舍離離車王族出身的阿羅漢，因犯戒被處以覆鉢之罰而悲傷出家，後佛陀以一偈激勵其克服懈怠，遂證得阿羅漢果。

  • 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

  • 拘那含牟尼佛時代斯里蘭卡的都城，其王為薩彌陀。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna3
Place

  • 摩訶伽摩境內的一座城市，未來的杜特伽摩尼王甫出生便被封為此地之主，也是一則獵人誤將佈施奉予惡比丘的故事發生地。

  • 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

  • 斯里蘭卡的一棵菩提樹，附有一座寺院，後世兩位國王曾先後加以修復。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna5
Place

  • 未來彌勒佛將居住的宮殿。

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

Vaḍḍhamāna6
Place

  • 斯里蘭卡的一個地區，由薩達提沙王賜予同名的大臣。

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

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