Anoma, Anomā: 5 definitions
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Anoma - Birth city of Vessabhu (see Anopama).
2. Anoma - A mountain near Himava. Ap.ii.345.
3. Anoma - A pleasaunce in Khema where Tissa Buddha was born. BuA.188.
4. Anoma - An ascetic of great power, who lived in the time of Piyadassi Buddha. He gave a jewelled chain to the Buddha and offered him a meal of fruit. In the present age he became Hemaka Thera. Ap.ii.351-4.
5. Anoma - A king of Jambudipa, fifty kappas ago; a previous birth of Bakkula Thera. Ap.i.329. v.l. Aranemi.
6. Anoma - A township in the time of Sumana Buddha; the residence of Anupama, who offered the Buddha a meal of milk rice. BuA.125.
7. Anoma - One of the two chief disciples of Anomadassi Buddha. J.i.36; BuA.145; DhA.i.88ff. The Bu (viii.22) calls him Asoka.
He preached to Sarada tapasa on the occasion when the latter made up his mind to become an aggasavaka himself.
8. Anoma - The personal attendant of Sobhita Buddha. J.i.35; BuA.140; The Bu. (vii. 21) calls him Anuma.
9. Anoma - An ajivaka who gave grass to Anomadassi for his seat. BuA.142.
10. Anoma - The city in whose park Atthadassi preached his first sermon. Bu.xv.18.
11. Anoma - The birth city of Piyadassi Buddha, and capital of King Sudinna. J.i.39. According to the Bu. (xiv. 15) it was called Sudhanna.
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1. Anoma - A river thirty leagues to the east of Kapilavatthu, where Gotama went after leaving home. According to the Lalita Vistara, the river was only six yojanas from the city, and Cunningham accepts this (p. 485 ff). It was eight usabhas in breadth, but
Kanthaka cleared it in one leap. It was here that Gotama cut off his hair and beard and put on the orange garments of the ascetics, brought to him by the Brahma Ghatikara.
On its banks was the mango grove of Anupiya (J.i.64f.; SnA.382). Three kingdoms lay between it and Kapilavatthu. (BuA.5. The countries of the Sakiyans, Koliyans and Mallas; see Expositor i.43n., where Kapilavatthu, Devadaha and Koliya are mentioned as the three kingdoms).
From the river to Rajagaha was a distance of thirty leagues, which Gotama took seven days to walk (J.i.65; SnA.382). It took him a whole night to ride from Kapilavatthu to Anoma (VvA.314).
The name seems to have meant Glorious, or not Slight. See J.i.64, where Gotama asks Channa the name of the river and Channa replies It is Anoma (glorious). Good, says Gotama, my renunciation shall also be anoma. The Burmese name is Anauma (Bigandet. p.41).
Cunningham (*) identifies the river with
the modern Aumi. He states his belief that the word means inferior, to
distinguish it from other and larger rivers in the neighbourhood, and that the
original name in Pali was Oma. According to him the confusion in names arose
from a misunderstanding of Channas reply. Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
India history and geography
Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early Buddhism1) Anomā (अनोमा) is the name of a river situated in Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—According to Cunningham, Anomā is the river Aumi, in the district of Gorakhpur. But Carlleyle identifies the river Anomā with the Kudawa Nadī in the Basti district of Oudh. At the time of his great Retirement the Buddha took with him Channa, his courtier, and Kaṇṭhaka, his horse. He left Kapilavatthu and proceeding to the bank of the river Anomā, he retired from the world and adopted the life of a monk.
2) Anomā (अनोमा) is also the name of a mountain situated in Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India.—The Anoma and Asoka mountains do not seem from their description in the Apadāna, to have been far off from the Himavanta.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryanoma : (adj.) superior.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryAnoma, (adj.) (only °-) (an + oma) not inferior, superior, perfect, supreme, in foll. cpds.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryAṇoma (अणोम) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Anavama.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Anomadassi, Anomadassika, Anomadassin, Anomadze, Anomaguna, Anomajjati, Anomana, Anomanama, Anomanikkama, Anomapanna, Anomarama, Anomasatta, Anomavanna, Anomaviriya.
Ends with: Amanoma, Ganeshanoma, Mahanoma.
Full-text (+17): Anavama, Anuma, Kancanavelu, Suppatita, Anomaguna, Sudhanna, Anomaviriya, Anomavanna, Anomadassin, Anomanikkama, Anomadassika, Anomanama, Anomapanna, Hemaka, Oma, Ashoka, Anomiya, Culamanicetiya, Anupama, Anopama.
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The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King (A Life of Buddha) (by Samuel Beal)
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Commentary on the Biography of the thera Aññāsi Koṇḍañña < [Chapter 1 - Buddhavagga (Buddha section)]
The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 460: Yuvañjaya-jātaka < [Volume 4]
A Brief Outline of Buddhism (by U Po Sa)
Ananda Coomaraswamy's Profiles of Buddha and Buddhism < [July – September 1977]
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