cutting; reaping; harvest.

…the 7 Buddhas. In the title Apadānaṃ, that is ʻthe stories’, it refers almost exclusively to Arahants. The other, (older), connotation seems…

A class of devas, living in the highest of the five Suddhāvasā (Pure Abodes). DN.iii.237

In the Mahāpadāna Sutta DN.ii.52f. the Buddha mentions that he visited their abode and conversed with beings …

A World ruler. The world itself means “Turner of the Wheel,” the Wheel (Cakka) being the well known Indian symbol of empire. More than one thousand sons are his; his dominions extend throughout the …

A building in the Jetavana where the Mahāpadāna Sutta was taught. DN.ii.1ff.

Jetavana3building

A Buddha of the past, whose story is told in the Mahāpadāna Sutta. He was born in the Khema park in Bandhumatī, his father being Bandhumā and his mother Bandhumatī. He belonged to the Koṇḍañña gotta. …

without discrimination; without discernment

(~ī)n. made clear or manifest in actions or by its results

adjective unmarried (of a woman) Ja.iv.178 (āpāda = apādāna C.; aññehi akata-pariggahā).

an + āpāda

see apadāna.

…vihangapatha˚ Sdhp.241; sapadāna˚ MN.i.30; Snp.65; pariyanta˚ Snp.904. 2. fig. anudhamma˚ Snp.69; āgu˚ AN.ii.240; AN.iii.163 dhamma˚…

…the jay?), in simile fr. the Apadāna of a hen watching her egg Vism.36 (aṇḍaṃ anurakkhamānā) Ja.iii.375 (rakkhati); cp. Snp-a.317 (kikī…

adjective

1. very clean, pure, cleansed, mostly combined with parisuddha (+) DN.i.75, DN.i.76 (+); MN.i.26; SN.i.198; SN.iii.235 (+), SN.v.301; AN.iii.27 (+); AN.iv.120 sq …

…reading pariyodāta which was prob misread for pariyodāna), 370.

pari + apadāna, the latter for ava˚, and metrical lengthening of a

Paṭicca-samuppāda

“arising on the grounds of (a preceding cause)” happening by way of cause working of cause & effect, causal chain of causation causal genesis, dependent origination, theory of the …

…Cnd.646 Also as adj. sapadāna (piṇḍapāta) Vin.ii.214.

fr. phrase sa-padānaṃ-cārikā; i.e. sa² +…

…(Vimāna & Peta Vatthu, Apadāna, Jātaka and similar fairy tales). It shows distinct traces of foreign (Hellenic-Babylonian influence and…

…very frequently in the Apadāna. Should we take it in meaning of “excessive”? And are we confronted with an attribute of osadhi, the…