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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

1. Adiccabandhu - An often used epithet of the Buddha (E.g., D.iii.197; Sn.v.1128; Thag. 26, 158, 417, etc.). The Vimanavatthu Commentary (p.116) says that Adicca (the Sun) belonged to the Gotamagotta, as did also the Buddha, hence his epithet Adiccabandhu; other explanations are given in the same context: the Buddha is born in the same ariya jati and is the descendant of the Sun (tam paticca tassa ariyaya jatiya jatatta), or the Sun is the Buddhas kinsman because the Sun is the Buddhas orasaputta (breast born son) inasmuch as the Sun is the Buddhas disciple. It is in this sense that in the Samyutta Nikaya (S.i.57) the Buddha speaks of the sun as mama paja, which Buddhaghosa (SA.i.86) explains as meaning disciple and spiritual son.

Adicca is described as tapatam mukham (chief of heat producing things). MA.ii.783.

2. Adiccabandhu - A Pacceka Buddha who was instrumental in enabling the author (son of the King of Benares) of the twentieth verse of the Khaggavisana Sutta to become a Pacceka Buddha. Adiccabandhu saw that the young prince, who had renounced the world and was living in his fathers park near the city, did not, on account of the visits of his parents and others, have sufficient peace of mind to develop his power of meditation.

He, therefore, visited the prince and persuaded him to go into the forest by showing him how real pabbajitas lived. The first two lines of the Sutta Nipata verse (No. 54) were uttered by Adiccabandhu. Sn.v.54; SnA.i.104-5; see also ApA.i.105, 152.

context information

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).

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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

ādiccabandhu : (m.) kinsman of the sun; of the Solar race.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Ādiccabandhu refers to: “kinsman of the sun”, Ep. of the Buddha Vin.II, 296; S.I, 186, 192; A.II, 54; Sn.54, 915, 1128; Nd¹ 341; Nd² 125^b; Vv 42⁵, 78¹⁰; VvA.116. (Page 99)

Note: ādiccabandhu is a Pali compound consisting of the words ādicca and bandhu.

context information

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.

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Partial matches: Adicca, Bandhu.

Full-text: Adicca, Buddha.

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