Alavaka, Āḷavaka, Ālavaka, Ālavakā, Alavika, Ālavikā, Āḷavika: 4 definitions
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Alavaka means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
1) A name given to the monks of Alavi.
Buddhaghosa (Sp.iii.561) says that all children born in Alavi were called Alavaka. The Alavaka bhikkhu are mentioned several times in the Vinaya (ii.172ff.; iii.85; iv.34-5) in connection with offences relating to navakamma (repairing and reconstruction of buildings), and rules are laid down by the Buddha restricting these monks in their activities. Once when one of the monks was cutting down a tree which was the abode of a devata, the sprite was sorely tempted to kill him, but restraining her wrath she sought the Buddha and complained to him. The Buddha praised her forbearance and preached the Uraga Sutta (SnA.i.4-5).
In the introductory story of the Manikantha Jataka (J.ii.282-3) it is stated that the importunities of these monks so annoyed the residents of Alavi that they fled at the approach of any yellow robed monk.
2) A nun. See Sela.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Āḷavaka, (& Āḷārikika) (adj.-n.) (= āṭavika) dwelling in forests, a forest-dweller S.II, 235. As Np. at Vism.208. (Page 110)
1) āḷavaka (အာဠဝက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[āḷavī+ka]
[အာဠဝီ+က]
2) āḷavika (အာဠဝိက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[āḷavī+ṇika]
[အာဠဝီ+ဏိက]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) āḷavaka—
(Burmese text): (၁) အာဠဝီပြည်၌ မွေးဖွားသော၊ အာဠဝီပြည်မှ ထွက်ခွါ ရဟန်းပြုသော၊ ရဟန်း။ အာဠဝက ရဟန်း။ အာဠဝီပြည်၌ မွေးဖွားသော သူငယ်များကို အာဠဝကဟု ခေါ်၏။ ၎င်းတို့သည် ရဟန်းပြုသောအခါ၌လည်း အာဠဝကဟု ထင်ရှားကုန်၏။ အာဠဝကရဟန်းတို့၏ အတောင်းအရမ်းများမှုကို အကြောင်းပြု၍ ကုဋိကာရသိက္ခာပုဒ်နှင့် သစ်ပင် ခုတ်ခြင်းကြောင့် ဘူတဂါမသိက္ခာပုဒ်တို့ကို ပညတ်ရသည်။ မဏိကဏ္ဌဇာတ်ကိုလည်း ဟောတော်မူသည်။ (၂) အာဠဝီပြည်ကို အစိုးရသော၊ မင်း။ အာဠဝကမင်း။ (၃) အာဠဝကမင်း။ (၃) အာဠဝကမင်းသာ။ (၄) အာဠဝီပြည်အနီး၌ နေသောဘီလူး၊ အာဠဝကဘီလူး။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) A monk who is born in the Arawi region, who has gone forth as a monk from the Arawi region. Monks from Arawi. The young ones born in the Arawi region are called Arawi. They are also known as Arawi when they become monks. Due to the excessive behavior of the Arawi monks, the rules of etiquette regarding proper conduct and the cutting down of trees are emphasized with certain penalties. The story of the Moonlit Path is also recounted. (2) The ruler of the Arawi region, the Arawi king. (3) The Arawi king. (4) The betel nut trees near the Arawi region, Arawi betel nut trees. Please refer to the original.
2) āḷavika—
(Burmese text): အာဠဝီပြည်၌ မွေးဖွားသော၊ အာဠဝီပြည်မှ ထွက်ခွါရဟန်းပြုသော။
(Auto-Translation): Born in the Alawi region, a monk who has left the Alawi region.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Nika, Ka, Niga.
Starts with: Alavaka Gajjita, Alavaka Hatthaka, Alavaka Puccha, Alavaka Sutta, Alavakakumara, Aliavaka Sutta.
Full-text (+6): Alavakakumara, Alavaka Sutta, Alavaka Gajjita, Alavaka Puccha, Alavi, Aliavaka Sutta, Aggalavacetiya, Hatthaka Sutta, Alava Sutta, Putta Sutta, Dussavudha, Gadrabha, Atavaka, Kumbhakanna, Manosilatala, Gahapati Vagga, Alavaka Hatthaka, Hastaka, Kelasa, Uraga Sutta.
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