Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

SR No.: 001125
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 504
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Dictionary, & Dictionary - Language
File Size: 9 MB

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Dhanpakada
two days' fasts taking coarse and dry food on every third day. Thus, he practised asceticism for nine months. Mahāvīra praised him before king Seniya(1) for his severe penances. After death he took birth as a god in the Savvatthasiddha heavenly abode. In future he will take one more birth and attain liberation in the Mahāvideha region.
1. Anut. 3-5, AcaCu. p. 221. 6. Dhaạna A merchant of Rāyagiha. Bhaddā(17) was his wife, Dhanapāla(3), Dhenadeva(6) Dhanagova(1) and Dhanarakkhiya(1) 'were his sons and Ujjhiyā, Bhogavatiya(2) Rakkhatiy, and Rohiniyā were his daughters-inlaw. Once he had tested the intelligence of all his daughters-in-law by giving each of them five rice-corns. See also Dhaņņa(1).
1. Jan. 63, VyaBh. 4. 183.
7. Dhanpa A caravan-leader belonging to Vasamtapura(3). He had been to Ņevuttiņagara accompanied by a number of persons.
1. AvaCu. I. p. 509, Vis. 3510-18.
8. Dhaņņa A caravan-leader belonging to the city of Campā. He went to Ahicchattā accompanied by a number of persons. After returning from there he took to asceticism, studied eleven Amga(3) texts and took birth as a god after death. He will, in future, attain emancipation in the Mahāvideha region.1
1. Jna. 105.
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9. Dhanna First chapter of the third section of Anuttarovavāiya. mentioned as the second chapter in Thāņa. 1. Anut. 3.
2. Sth. 755.
10. Dhaņņa A merchant of Rāyagiha. Bhaddā(16) was his wife and Devadiņna was his son. Once he was sentenced to imprisonment for committing a crime. He and robber Vijaya(14), murderer of his son, were fattered together. On refusing to cooperate with him in urinating etc. he had to share his food with Vijaya. Later he renounced the world and became a disciple of ascetic Dhammaghosa(6)
1. Jan. 33-42.
11. Dhanna Another name of merchant Dhapāvaha(1).
1. KalpCu. p. 102.
Dhaņpakada (Dhanyaksta) A village where Vimala(1), the thirteenth Titthamkara, had his first pāraņā at the hands of householder Jaya(2), It is identified with Kupari in Balasar district in Bengal.? 1. AvaN. 324, 328.
| 2. LAI. p. 281.