Jantaghara, Jantāghara, Janthaghara: 3 definitions

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Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963

Jantāghara is the name of a building constructed by Devānaṃpiya Tissa (B.C. 247-207) at Mahāvihāra in Anurādhapura. It is a bath with a room for hot baths, to south of the Bodhi tree. Mahāvihāra, also called the Tissārāma, was a region in the Southern Area of the city of Anurādhapura, founded in B.C. 246 by Devānaṃpiya Tissa and presented to the great Thera, Mahinda. Its territory (including the Jantāghara building) comprised the Jotivana (previously called Nandana) and Mahāmegha Parks, the area to south and south-east of the citadel.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

jantāghara : (nt.) a hot room for steam bath.

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

Jantāghara, (Acc. to Abhp. 214=aggisālā, a room in which a fire is kept (viz. for the purpose of a steam bath, i.e. a hot room, cp. in meaning Mhg. kemenate=Lat. caminata, Ger. stube=E. stove; Low Ger. pesel (room)= Lat. pensile (bath) etc.) Etym. uncertain. Bühler KZ 25, p. 325=yantra-gṛha (oil-mill?); E. Hardy (D. Lit. Qtg. 1902, p. 339)=jentāka (hot dry bath), cp. Vin. Texts I. 157; III, 103. In all probability it is a distorted form (by dissimilation or analogy), perhaps of *jhānt-āgāra, to jhā to burn=Sk. kṣā, jhānti heat or heating (=Sk. kṣāti)+āgāra, which latter received the aspiration of the first part (=āghāra), both being reduced in length of vowels=jant-āghara)—1. a (hot) room for bathing purposes, a sitzbath Vin. I, 47, 139; II, 119, 220 sq. , 280; III, 55; M. III, 126; J. II, 25, 144; Vism. 18; Dpvs VIII, 45.—2. living room J. I, 449. (Page 278)

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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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