Bhūmaka & ˚ika

(adj.) (only-˚)

1. having floors or stories (of buildings) as dve˚ pāsāda Dhp-a.i.414; pañca˚; pāsāda a palace with…

A headman (gāmani). He came to the Buddha in the Pārileyyaka Mango Grove in Nāḷandā and asked him various questions, recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya. SN.iv.312ff. One of these related to the custo …

Cunda¹

A worker in metals living in Pāvā. When the Buddha reached Pāvā on his way to Kusinārā, he stayed in Cunda’s Mango grove. There Cunda visited him and invited him and the monks to a …

PacchābhummaPacchābhūma

The name given to the district to the west of the Middle Country. SN.iii.5 SN.iii.6 Mention is also made of the Pacchābhūmakā brahmins, who are carriers of water pots, fire wo …

belonging to the Buddha’s birth place.

Bhūmaka & ˚ika

(adj.) (only-˚)

1. having floors or stories (of buildings) as dve˚ pāsāda Dhp-a.i.414; pañca˚; pāsāda a palace with…

…natural ground, in ˚bhūmaka, ˚bhūmika, ˚bhūmiya living on nat. gr. (vassaṃ vasati) MN.i.145; AN.iii.366

• -kkhaya the destruction…

, neuter the waterpot with long spout used by non-Buddhist ascetics SN.i.167; Ja.ii.73 (= kuṇḍikā); Ja.iv.362, Ja.iv.370; Ja.vi.86, Ja.vi.525, Ja.vi.570 Snp.p.80; Dhp-a.iii.448-adj. kamaṇḍaluka [ …

…Dhp.276, Dhp.350 (= tebhūmaka-vaṭṭasankhātaṃ Dhp-a.iv.69).

• -senā the army of M. Snp.561 Snp.563;…

…= 3²

1. navabhūmaka pāsāda (a palace 9 stories high more freq. satta˚, 7) Ja.i.58; nava-hiraññakoṭīhi (w. 9 koṭis of…

…country SN.iii.5. -bhūmaka id. SN.iv.312 = AN.v.263 -mukha looking westward MN.iii.5; DN.ii.207;…

adjective “with flowers in front,” flower-tipped (of the arrows of Māra) Dhp.46 (but explained at Dhp-a.i.337 as “p.˚ sankhātāni tebhūmakāni vaṭṭāni,” i.e. existence in the 3 stages of being).

pa + pupphaka

…v. “unfailing”).

• -bhūmaka (pāsāda) (a palace) with 7 stories Mhvs.37, Mhvs.11; Ja.i.58; Ja.iv.378; Dhp-a.i.180,…

…Dhp-a.i.97.

• -bhūmaka belonging to the 3 stages of being (viz. the kāma, rūpa, arūpa existences; cp….

…Sdhp.276, Sdhp.491 (cp. tebhūmaka); -vagga consisting of 3 divisions or books DN-a.i.2 (Dīghāgamo vaggato t. hoti)…

…Kp-a.189; Snp-a.510 (tebhūmaka˚); Dhp-a.i.289 (kilesa˚), Dhp-a.iv.69 (tebhūmaka˚). See also Māra; and ˚dukkha ˚vivaṭṭa below. 3….