Arohanta, Ārohanta: 3 definitions

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Arohanta 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)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

One of the chief ministers at Savatthi. He joined the Order of monks and his wife became a nun. They had their meals together and she waited on him, fetching him water and fanning him. He forbade her to wait on him as it was improper and, angered by his words, she poured the water over his head and struck him with the fan. For this she was rebuked by the Buddha. Vin.iv.263.

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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

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Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) ārohanta (အာရောဟန္တ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[yādicchaka]
[ယာဒိစ္ဆကနာမ်]

2) ārohanta (အာရောဟန္တ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ā+ruha+a+anta]
[အာ+ရုဟ+အ+အန္တ]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

1) ārohanta—

(Burmese text): တက်သော၊ (က) တက်ရောက်သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) တက်စီးသော၊ သူ။

(Auto-Translation): Ascending, (a) attending, he. (b) riding, he.

2) ārohanta—

(Burmese text): အာရောဟန္တ-မည်သောသူ။

(Auto-Translation): Who is the person of authority?

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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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