A Gandhabba chieftain DN.ii.258 to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. DN.iii.204

NālāNālakagāmakāNālagā

A village in Māgadha, near the Bodhi tree at Gayā. Thig.294

near Gayā3town

species of reed; great reed, arundo donax l.; reed; rushes; reeds in general.

hollow stalk, esp. of the waterlily; a tube.

…Ja.vi.537 (Com.: naḷa-puppha-vaṇṇa rukkhasunakha);

• -setu a bridge of reeds Snp.4.

Ved. naḍa & Sk….

…Ja.vi.537 (Com.: naḷa-puppha-vaṇṇa rukkhasunakha);

• -setu a bridge of reeds Snp.4.

Ved. naḍa & Sk….

Nāla & Nāḷa

neuter a hollow stalk, esp. that of the water lily AN.iv.169; Ja.i.392 (˚pana variant reading ˚vana); Vv-a.43. See also nāḷikā & nālī.

Sk. nāla, see nala

Nāla & Nāḷa

neuter a hollow stalk, esp. that of the water lily AN.iv.169; Ja.i.392 (˚pana variant reading ˚vana); Vv-a.43. See also nāḷikā & nālī.

Sk. nāla, see nala

Ambalaṭṭhikā¹

A royal park on the road between Rājagaha and Nāḷandā. It contained a royal rest-house in which the Buddha and members of the Order used to stay in the course of their journ …

…other two. And again in the Naḷakapāna Sutta, MN.i.462ff. though a large number of distinguished monks are present, it is to Anuruddha that…

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 …

Asita¹KaṇhāsiriKāladevala

An ascetic who possessed various psychic powers. Once, while in Tāvatiṃsā heaven, he saw the whole city decked with splendour and the gods engaged in great rejoic …

Mahā Kassapa says that while yet a “learner” he paid homage to the Buddha at a Bahuputtaka-nigrodha where the Buddha had gone to meet him. The Buddha taught him of the training to be followed and, pr …

A region in India. It contained the city of Vedisa. Dakkhiṇāgiri lay to the south-west of Rājagaha, beyond the hills that surrounded the city—hence its name. In the district was the brahmin village o …

A monk, a close relative of the Buddha, who split the Sangha, and attempted to overthrow the Buddha and have him murdered. In one passage in the Vinaya, Vin.ii.189 Devadatta is spoken of as Godhiputta …

A Nigaṇṭha, follower of Nāṭaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Nāḷandā, and there followed a discussion on actions and their efficiency. Dīghatapassī reported this discussion to Nāṭaputta and Upāli, …

A brahmin village near Dakkhiṇāgiri, to the south of Rājagaha. Once, during the eleventh year of his ministry, the Buddha visited the village and preached to Kāsī-Bhāradvāja the sutta which bears his …

…Mātali, Cittasena, Naḷa and Janesabha.

The Gandhabbas are sometimes described as going through the air. AN.ii.39 In the…

HimavāHimācalaHimavantaHimālaya

The Himālaya mountains. In Himavā, are seven great lakes, each fifty leagues in length, breadth and depth—Anotattā, Kaṇṇamuṇḍā, Rathakāra, Chaddantā, Kuṇālā, Mandākinī …

A wanderer. The Saṃyutta Nikāya records visits paid by him to Sāriputta at Nālakagāma and discussions between them on various topics, such as nibbāna, arahantship, the āsavas, sakkāya, ignorance, th …

A brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan, living at Ekanālā, in Dakkhiṇāgiri, and so called on account of his profession of agriculture. On the day of his festive sowing, the Buddha visited him alone, and sto …

Kevaṭṭa KevaḍḍhaKevaddha

A householder of Nāḷandā. Once when the Buddha was staying in the Pāvārika-ambavana at Nāḷandā, Kevaṭṭa visited him. The interview is recorded in the Kevaṭṭa Sutta. DN.i.211ff.

…when the Buddha preached the Naḷakapāna Sutta in the Palāsavana at Naḷakapāna. MN.i.462ff.

In three different places in the Aṅguttara…

…Nagaravinda, MN.iii.290 Naḷakapāna, AN.v.122 MN.i.462 Nāḷandā, SN.iv.322 Pankadhā, AN.i.236 Venāgapura, AN.i.180 Veḷudvāra,…

The name of a river which flows out of the Kuṇāladaha. It dries up when, at the end of the aeon, the fourth sun rises.AN.iv.101

4river

…whom the Buddha preached the Naḷakapāna Sutta, and was therefore probably a friend of Anuruddha and the other Sākyan nobles present on that…

LaṭṭhivanaLatthivanaLatthivanuyyāna

A grove to the southwest of Rājagaha. In it was the Supatiṭṭha cetiya, where the Buddha stayed during his first visit to Rājagaha from Gayāsīsa, after the Enlighte …

…eminent theras—e.g., the Naḷakalāpiya Sutta on kamma, SN.ii.112f. the Sīla Sutta on religious discipline, SN.iii.165ff. three suttas…

The books contain a list of seven great lakes, situated in the Himālaya. They form the sources of the five great rivers and dry up only when four suns appear in the world. These seven lakes are Anotat …

One of the four chief kingdoms of India at the time of the Buddha, the others being Kosala, the kingdom of the Vaṃsas and Avanti. Māgadha formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas and had its capital at …

…once stayed and preached the Naḷakapāna Sutta. MN.i.462 There were two groves near the village, the Ketakavana and the Palāsavana; in the…

The Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta DN.ii.72ff. gives a list of the places at which the Buddha stopped during his last journey along that road—Ambalaṭṭhikā, Nāḷandā, Pāṭaligāma, Koṭigāma, Nādikā, Vesāli, Bha …

Nephew of Asita Kāladevala. When Asita realized that he would not live to see the Buddha, he sought out Nālaka and asked him to leave the world at once and become an ascetic and hold himself in readin …

NālāgiriNāḷāgiri

An elephant of the royal stalls at Rājagaha. Devadatta, after several vain attempts to kill the Buddha, obtained Ajātasattu’s consent to use Nālagiri as a means of encompassing the B …

NāḷandāNālaNālakaNālikaUpatissagāma

Mentioned as a brahmin village in Māgadha, not far from Rājagaha. SN.iv.251 AN.v.120 AN.v.121 SN.v.161

Also mentioned as a town near Rājagaha. The Buddha is menti …

…in Kosala. The Buddha stayed there, AN.v.122 and it was there that the Naḷakapāna Sutta was preached. MN.i.462

near Naḷakapāna in…

Pāvārikambavana¹

The mango grove of Pāvārika of Kosambī.

Kosambī3parkPāvārikambavana²

A mango grove at Nāḷandā where the Buddha stayed when on a visit there. DN.ii.81 It was t …

…the preaching of the Naḷakapāna Sutta. MN.i.462 The Mahāgosiṅga Sutta MN.i.212ff. records a discussion between Moggallāna, Mahā…

A city, the capital of Māgadha.

The place was called Giribbaja (mountain stronghold) because it was surrounded by five hills—Paṇḍava, Gijjhakūṭa, Vebhāra, Isigili and Vepulla. It is said MN.iii.68 th …

SāmaṇḍakaSāmaṇḍakāniSāmañcakāni

A Paribbājaka, mentioned SN.iv.261f. as having visited Sāriputta at Ukkacela and questioned him regarding Nibbāna, and again AN.v.121f. at Nālakagāma, where he que …

the stalk of the akka plant.

diligent; active, energetic.

not enough; not sufficient

thinking insufficient; not finding satisfaction in

not adorned; unsatisfied

not boisterous; controlled

not boisterous; controlled

without support, without anything to hold on to.

, the ceasing to speak, the silencing (?)

energy

energy

1. (mfn.) free from clinging or attachment; free from longing; empty of desire.
2. (m.n.) freedom from clinging or attachment, independence

not speaking, not addressing.

pretense of illness.

~ī, feminine the stalk of the kumuda

the name of one of the seven great lakes.

bundle or sheaf of reads.

the forehead; the brow

gesture on the forehead; a frown.

hut made of reeds; a hut roofed with reeds or rushes.

boisterous, insolent; uncontrolled

boisterous, insolent; uncontrolled

~i, feminine an usīra stalk or fiber

Name of a plant: Calotropis Gigantea, swallow-wort MN.i.429 (-assa jiyā bowstrings made from that plant).

• -nāla a kind of dress material Vin.i.306 (vv.ll. agga & akkha˚);
• *-[vāṭa](/define …

Ala¹

freq. spelling for aḷa.

Ala²

adjective enough, only in neg. anala insufficient, impossible MN.i.455; Ja.ii.326 = Ja.iv.471.

alaṃ adv. as adj.

adjective idle, lazy, slack, slothful, languid SN.i.44, SN.i.217; Snp.96 (= jāti-alaso Snp-a.170); Ja.iv.30; Dhp.280 (= mahā-alaso Dhp-a.iii.410). Opp. analasa vigorous energetic SN.i.44; DN.iii …

sloth, laziness; only in neg. analasatā zeal, industry Vv-a.229.

abstr. fr. alasa

indeclinable emphatic particle

1. in affirmative sentences: part. of assurance emphasis = for sure, very much (so), indeed, truly. Note. In connection with a dat. or an infin. the latter only app …

1. “made too much”, made much of, done up, adorned, fitted out Dhp.142 (= vatthâbharaṇa-paṭimaṇḍita Dhp-a.iii.83); Pv.ii.3#6; Vv.1#1; Ja.iii.392; Ja.iv.60.
2. “done enough” (see *[alaṃ](/define/alaṃ …

adjective

1. not sufficient, not enough; unable, impossible, unmanageable MN.i.455; Ja.ii.326 = Ja.iv.471.
2. dissatisfied, insatiate Ja.v.63 (= atitta C.).
3. -ṃ kata dissatisfied, satiated, SN.i …

houselessness, a houseless state, fig freedom from worldliness or attachment to life, singleness SN.v.24 = AN.v.232 = Dhp.87 (okā anokaṃ āgamma). adj. homeless, free from attachment SN.i.176; Dhp.87 ( …

adverb prep. (c. gen. acc. or loc.), pref. (˚-) and adv. “in between” (of space & time), midway, inside; during meanwhile, between. On interpretation of term see DN-a.i.34 sq

1. (prep.) c. ac …

adjective without support (from above), unsuspended, not held Snp.173 (+ appatiṭṭha expl^d. at Snp-a.214 by heṭṭhā patiṭṭhâbhāvena upari ālambhāvena ca gambhīra).

an + ālamba

aversion, doing away with Vin.i.10 (taṇhāya). Analhiya & Analhika;

an + ālaya

adjective at Vv.36#1 should be read as apiḷaddha (= Sk. apinaddha) pp. of apiḷandhati (apiḷandhati) “adorned with”, or (with variant reading SS) as apiḷandhana; Vv-a.167 ex …

adjective noun

1. (racial) Aryan DN.ii.87.
2. (social) noble, distinguished, of high birth.
3. (ethical) in accord with the customs and ideals of the Aryan clans, held in esteem by Aryans, gene …

pronoun another etc

A. By itself

1. other not the same, different, another, somebody else (opp oneself) Vin.iii.144 (aññena, scil. maggena, gacchati to take a different route); Snp.459, Sn …

adjective having a wall or walls Ja.iv.318 (naḷa ˚ā paṇṇasālā); Ja.vi.10 (catu˚ with 4 walls).

fr. bhitti

grown, become; born, produced; nature as the result of becoming. The (exegetical) definition by Bdhgh of the word bhūta is interesting. He (at MN-a.i.31) distinguishes the foll. 7 …

to cut off, to destroy, to remove, both lit. (bandhanaṃ, pāsaṃ, pasibbakaṃ, jīvaṃ, gīvaṃ, sīsaṃ hatthapāde, etc.) and fig. (taṇhaṃ, mohaṃ, āsavā saṃyojanāni, vicikicchaṃ, vanathaṃ, etc.) Freq. in …

Dakkha¹

adjective dexterous skilled, handy, able, clever DN.i.45, DN.i.74, DN.i.78; DN.iii.190 (+ analasa) MN.i.119; MN.iii.2; SN.i.65; Cnd.141 (+ analasa & sampajāna); Ja.iii.247; DN-a …

1. going, going away, (opp. āgati coming) (both gati & āgati usually in pregnant sense of No. (2) See āgati); direction, course, career. Freq of the two careers of a Mahāpurisa (viz. either a Cakkavat …

an elephant Vin.i.218, Vin.i.352; Vin.ii.194 sq (Nālāgiri) = Ja.v.335 (nom. sg. hatthī; gen. hatthissa) DN.i.5; AN.ii.209; Ja.i.358; Ja.ii.102; Dhp-a.i.59 (correct haṭṭhi!), Dhp-a.i.80 (acc. pl. hat …

crab SN.i.123; MN.i.234; Ja.i.222; Vv.54#6 (Vv-a.243, Vv-a.245); Dhp-a.iii.299 (mama… kakkaṭakassa viya akkhīni nikkhamimsu, as a sign of being in love). Cp. kakkhaḷa.

• -nala a kind of sea-re …

…Ja.i.158 (do.); Ja.i.25 (naḷa˚), Ja.i.51 (mālā˚), Ja.i.100 (uppalakumuda˚); Ja.v.39 (usīra˚); Mil.33; Pv-a.257, Pv-a.260 (ucchu˚),…

adjective having a quiver Ja.vi.49 (acc. pl. ˚ine). f. kalāpinī a bundle, sheaf (yava˚) SN.iv.201 SN.ii.114 (naḷa˚).

fr. kalāpa

the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garland …

adjective black; in the stock phrase muṇḍakā samaṇakā ibbhā k˚ bandhupādâpaccā DN.i.90 = DN.i.116; SN.iv.117; MN.i.334; MN.ii.177; in a moral sense = bad, wicked, with nâlam-ariyā dhammā DN.i.163.

s …

…AN.v.173 = Snp.p.126.

• -naḷa a lotus-stalk Ja.i.223;
• -patta (-vaṇṇa) (having the colour of)…

Name of a bird (the Indian cuckoo) Ja.v.214 sq. (kuṇāla-jātaka). Kuṇāla-daha “cuckoo-lake,” Name of one of the seven great lakes in the Himavant Vism.416.

the cuckoo Ja.v.406 (= kokila).

fr. kuṇāla

to desire.

1. Objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment.
2. Subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense, (b) sense-desire.

Buddhist commentators exp …

see nalāṭa (cp. langula).

the tail of an animal Mhvs.6, Mhvs.6 (lāḷento langulaṃ; variant reading nangulaṃ) See also naṅgula & (concerning l → n); landhati (= nandhati); nalāṭa (for l …

1. circle DN.i.134 (paṭhavi˚, cp. puthavi˚ Snp.990); Vism.143 (˚ṃ karoti to draw a circle, in simile), Vism.174 (tipu˚ & rajata˚ lead- & silver circle, in kasiṇa practice); Vv-a.147 (of a fan = tāla …

stupidity, dullness of mind & soul, delusion bewilderment, infatuation DN.iii.146, DN.iii.175, DN.iii.182, DN.iii.214, DN.iii.270; Vin.iv.144, Vin.iv.145; Snp.56, Snp.74, Snp.160, Snp.638, Snp.847; Vb …

Muḷāla & Muḷālī

feminine the stalk of the lotus: muḷālī Vin.i.215 (bhisa +); muḷāli Ja.vi.530 (= muḷālaka C.); muḷālikā Vin.i.215 (bhisa +); bhisa-muḷālaṃ (nt.) (collective cpd. fibre & stal …

Muḷāla & Muḷālī

feminine the stalk of the lotus: muḷālī Vin.i.215 (bhisa +); muḷāli Ja.vi.530 (= muḷālaka C.); muḷālikā Vin.i.215 (bhisa +); bhisa-muḷālaṃ (nt.) (collective cpd. fibre & stal …

the forehead SN.i.118; Ja.iii.393; Ja.iv.417 (nalāṭena maccuṃ ādāya: by his forelock); Vism.185; Dhp-a.i.253.

• -anta the side of the forehead Ja.vi.331;
• *-[maṇḍala](/define/ma …

“belonging to the forehead,” a frown Vin.ii.10 (nalāṭikaṃ deti to give a frown).

Sk. lalāṭikā

nard, ointment Ja.vi.537. Nala & Nala;

Sk. nalada, Gr. νάρδος, of Semitic origin, cp. Hebr. nīrd

water-animal Ja.vi.537.

adverb not enough, insufficient Iti.37; Ja.i.190; DN-a.i.167.

= na alaṃ

name.

1. Literal. nom. nāmaṃ SN.i.39; Snp.808; Ja.ii.131; Mil.27; acc. nāmaṃ Pv-a.145 (likhi: he wrote her name)
   ■ nāmaṃ karoti to give a name Snp.344 Cnd.466 (n’ etaṃ nāmaṃ mātarā kataṃ on “ …

an iron weapon, an arrow or javelin MN.i.429; Ja.iii.322; Mil.105, Mil.244, Mil.418 -valaya an iron ring or collar (?) Mhvs.vii.20 (Com “vaṭṭita-assanārāca-pasa” = a noose forme …

woman, wife, female Snp.301, Snp.836; Dhp.284; Ja.i.60; Ja.iii.395; Ja.iv.396 (˚gaṇa); Vv.6#1, Vv.44#16; Pv.i.9#1 (= itthi Pv-a.44). pl. nariyo (Snp.299, Snp.304, Snp.703), nāriyo (Snp.703 variant re …

boat, ship Vin.iii.49 (q.v. for definition & description) SN.i.106 (eka-rukkhikā); SN.i.iii.155 = SN.i.v.51 = AN.iv.127 (sāmuddikā “a liner”); AN.ii.200; AN.iii.368; Snp.321, Snp.770, Snp.771; Dhp. …

(in compounds); nāḷi a hollow stalk, tube, pipe; also a measure of capacity Vin.i.249; AN.iii.49; Ja.i.98 (suvaṇṇa˚), Ja.i.124 (taṇḍula˚), Ja.i.419; Ja.iii.220 (kaṇḍa˚ a quiver); Ja. …

1. a leaf (esp. betel leaf) Vin.i.201 (5 kinds of leaves recommended for medicinal purposes, viz. nimba˚; Azadirachta Indica kuṭaja˚; Wrightia antidysenterica, paṭola˚; Trichosanthes dioeca, *su …

opulent, prosperous, rich; in the older texts only in stock phrase iddha ph. bahujana (rich & prosperous & well-populated) DN.i.211 (of the town Nālandā); DN.ii.146 (of Kusāvatī); MN.i.377; (of Nāl …

…(C. in explⁿ of naḷa-sannibha “reed-coloured”). -susira a hollow tree Pv-a.62.

Vedic vṛkṣa. See…

Sara¹

1. the reed Saccharum sara Mil.342.
2. an arrow (orig. made of that reed) DN.i.9; Dhp.304; Mil.396; Dhp-a.216 (visa-pīta).

• -tuṇḍa a beak as sharp as an arrow …

at Ja.iii.394 (of hair growing white “saṇhakasadisā”) according to Kern,

Toevoegselen

ii.69 (coarse) hempen cloth (= sāṇavāka), as indicated by variant reading sāṇalāka. Thus a der. fr. saṇa = s …

…SN.iv.174; Mil.194 naḷa-˚; a bamboo bridge Thag.7.

• -kāraka a bridge-maker, one who paves the way SN.i.33;…

grass, herb; weed; straw; thatch hay, litter SN.iii.137 (tiṇa, kasā, kusa, babbaja, bīraṇa) satiṇakaṭṭhodaka full of grass, wood & water (of an estate) DN.i.87, DN.i.111, etc.; sītaṃ vā uṇhaṃ vā rajo …

…shaken SN.i.61 (+ unnaḷa “muddled in mind & puffed up” trsl.), SN.i.204 (id. SN.v.112xxx līnaṃ cittaṃ uddhataṃ c.), SN.i.114 =…

…haughty in phrase uddhata unnaḷa capala MN.i.32; SN.i.61 = SN.i.204 (translated as “muddled in mind, puffed up, vain”, expl^d. as…

to rise up, ascend Mil.117 (oṇamati +); Vism.306
caus unnāmeti (q.v.)
pp unnara & uṇṇata; (q.v.). Unnala & Unnala;

ud + namati, see uṇṇamati in fig. meaning

…(= sāmin Pv-a.262); Ja.i.71; Ja.ii.369; Ja.vi.487; Mil.146, Mil.387; DN-a.i.45 See also unnaḷa

pp. of unnamati. Besides this form we…

…haughty in phrase uddhata unnaḷa capala MN.i.32; SN.i.61 = SN.i.204 (translated as “muddled in mind, puffed up, vain”, expl^d. as…

…(with note Sn Index p. 870: naḷaka)

• -nāḷa id. Mil.102.
• -rāga the colour of bamboo, a term for the…

bamboo AN.ii.73; Vin.iv.35; Ja.iv.382 (daṇḍa˚); Ja.v.71; Vism.1, Vism.17; Snp-a.76 (= vaṃsa); Vb-a.334.

• -agga (veḷagga) the top of a bamboo Vin.ii.110
• *-[gumba](/define/gumb …

covered, bound, intertwined Vin.i.194 (camma˚, onaddha +); Ja.v.416; Ja.vi.589 (kañcanalatā˚ bheri); Vism.1 (= jaṭita saṃsibbita).

pp. of vinandhati

…ucchinna Snp-a.435); Thag.216; Ja.vi.60 (viddhasta + as at Snp.542).

vi + naḷa + kata, with naḷī for naḷa in combination with kṛ.

Yaso & Yasa

neuter glory, fame, repute success, high position. On term as used with ref. to the brahmin see Fick, Sociale Gliederung 128, 129. The prevailing idea of Dhammapāla is that yaso consist …

Yaso & Yasa

neuter glory, fame, repute success, high position. On term as used with ref. to the brahmin see Fick, Sociale Gliederung 128, 129. The prevailing idea of Dhammapāla is that yaso consist …

adjective wearing garlands or other headornaments, usually in f. ˚inī Ja.v.409 (= kaṇṇālankārehi yuttā C.); Vv.30#2 (voc. āvelinī, but at id. p. Vv.48#2 āveline) Vv.32#3 ; Vv-a.125 (on Vv.30#2 explai …