Arahanta, Arahamta, Araha-anta: 7 definitions
Introduction:
Arahanta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA Talaing monk, the preceptor and advisor of Anuruddha. King of Burma. He made far reaching reforms in the Burmese Sangha of his day (Bode, op. cit., 12-13).
Source: Dhamma Dana: Pali English GlossaryM (Worthy one). A being who has eliminated the entirety of mental impurities (kilesas) and who, in consequence, is free from all attachment and from all forms of suffering.
Such a being has no reason to take rebirth into one of the thirty two spheres of sansara will experience parinibbana at the end of his present existence.
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
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryarahanta : (m.) one who has attained the Summum Bonum.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionaryarahanta (အရဟန္တ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[araha+anta．arahaṃ-eiea a (vi,ṭṭha,1．84) īarahantaeiea a (vimāna,ṭṭha．95．peta,ṭṭha．7) atūtū eiea, ṭīkānitea ārakācamha arahaṃ cīsa ārakā-camha arahanta cura eiea．vi,pi,-nitea．]]araha+anta]] arahanta-sa (na+raho-caso) aso vi so hūsamyha gacchantādigaṇika arahanta- rahu eiea．arahaṃ- ．arahantaeiea rānitea nīti,pada．23va-nitea pu tasā prayuea thī,na mahu ,aacuṃ nītinitea．]
[အရဟ+အန္တ။ အရဟံ-ပုဒ်၏ အဖွင့် (ဝိ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၈၄)နှင့် ဤအရဟန္တပုဒ်၏ အဖွင့် (ဝိမာန၊ဋ္ဌ။၉၅။ ပေတ၊ဋ္ဌ။၇) တို့သည် အတူတူပင် ဖြစ်၏၊ ထို့ကြောင့် ဋီကာတို့၌ အာရကာစသည်မှ အရဟံဖြစ်အောင် ရုပ်စီရင်သကဲ့သို့ အာရကာ-စသည်မှ အရဟန္တဖြစ်အောင်လည်း ရုပ်စုရင်ရမည်ကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်၏။ ဝိ၊ပိ၊ဓာန်-၌လည်း။ ''အရဟ+အန္တ''ဖြင့် အရဟန္တ-ပြီးသကဲ့သို့ (န+ရဟော-စသော) အခြားသော ဝိကပ်ဖြင့် ပြီးသော ပုဒ်ဟူသမျှလည်း ဂစ္ဆန္တာဒိဂဏိက အရဟန္တ-ချည်း ပြီးရသည်ဟု ဆို၏။ အရဟံ-နှင့်လည်း ယှဉ်ကြည့်။ အရဟန္တပုဒ်၏ လိင်ကို ဆိုရာ၌ နီတိ၊ပဒ။၂၃ဝ-၌ ပုလ္လိင်ရုပ်စဉ် တမျိုးသာ ပြ၍ ထီ၊ နပုံးလိင် မထင်ရှားဟု မိန့်သည်၊ အပြည့်အစုံကို ထိုနီတိ၌ကြည့်။]
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 dictionary1) Arahaṃta (अरहंत) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Arhata.
2) Arahaṃta (अरहंत) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Arahontar.
3) Arahaṃta (अरहंत) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Arathānta.
4) Arahaṃta (अरहंत) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Arahayat.
5) Ārahaṃta (आरहंत) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ārhata.
Ārahaṃta has the following synonyms: Ārahaṃtiya.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusArahaṃta (ಅರಹಂತ):—[noun] (Jain.) a spiritual teacher.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with (+6): Arahaddhaja, Arahanta Sutta, Arahanta Vagga, Arahantaabhayanapanha, Arahantabhava, Arahantabhumi, Arahantaghata, Arahantaghataka, Arahantaghatakacatuttha, Arahantaghatakupajjhaya, Arahantaghatikamma, Arahantakoti, Arahantakotisahassa, Arahantamajjha, Arahantanaga, Arahantasahassa, Arahantasamana, Arahantasanni, Arahantasata, Arahantasatasahassa.
Full-text (+27): Arahanta Vagga, Arahaddhaja, Arahatta, Arahantabhava, Arahantanaga, Chalabhinnarahanta, Arahantavada, Patisambhidarahanta, Arahantaabhayanapanha, Arahantakotisahassa, Catiarahanta, Arahantavedanavediyanapanha, Arhata, Arahantasahassa, Arahantasata, Anarahanta, Arahantamajjha, Atiarahanta, Arahantasatasahassa, Pattaarahanta.
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