Nyagrodha (8721)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- Nyagrodha
Entry 8721, Page 313, Col. 2 -
(nyagroDa, nyagroDa)
Nyagrodha¦, m. (1) (= Pali Nigrodha, or °dha-miga), n. of a deer-king: Mv i.359.19 ff. (in the story called in Pali Nigrodhamiga Jātaka); (2) n. of a deity, formerly a goatherd who had planted a nyagrodha tree under which Buddha spent the 6th week after enlightenment: Mv iii.302.3; this tree was the Ajapāla-nyagrodha; [Page314-a+ 22] (3) n. of the deity inhabiting a nyagrodha tree at Benares: Mv iii.403.10.
{{#arraymap:
|; |@@@ | | }}