Ayuvaddhana Kumara, Āyuvaddhana-kumāra, Ayuvaddhanakumara, Āyuvaḍḍhanakumāra: 3 definitions
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Ayuvaddhana Kumara 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)
Two Brahmins of Dighalambika became ascetics and practised austerities for forty eight years. Then one of them returned to the world and having procured cattle and money, married and begot a son whom he called Dighayu. Later, when his former companion came to the city, the householder visited him with his wife and child. When they made obeisance to him, the ascetic said, Long life to you to the man and his wife, but not to the child. When questioned, the ascetic told them that their son had but seven days to live, and suggested that they should visit the Buddha and ask him if there were any means of averting the childs fate.
They did so and the Buddha, who was then staying at the Arannakutika in Dighalambika, told them to erect a pavilion outside the door of their house. This they did, and in the pavilion the monks recited the Paritta continuously for seven days with the child seated before them on a bench. On the seventh day the Buddha himself came and hosts of devas gathered round him. The yakkha Avaruddhaka, who had been granted the boon of eating Dighayu, appeared to claim him at the time appointed for his death, but on account of the presence of the devas, he could not come near the boy. The Buddha recited the Paritta all night long, and when the seventh day had passed Avaruddhaka could no longer claim the child. The Buddha declared that the boy would live for one hundred and twenty years and he was renamed Ayuvaddhana. When he grew up he became the leader of five hundred lay disciples. DhA.ii.235ff.
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
āyuvaḍḍhanakumāra (အာယုဝဍ္ဎနကုမာရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[āyuvaḍḍhana+kumāra]
[အာယုဝဍ္ဎန+ကုမာရ]
[Pali to Burmese]
āyuvaḍḍhanakumāra—
(Burmese text): အာယုဝဍ္ဎနသတိုးသား။
(Auto-Translation): Ayuveda Natha (a term that's part of traditional Ayurvedic medicine).
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: Ayuvaddhana, Kumara.
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