Korabya, Korabba: 3 definitions
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Korabya: One of Kalasokas ten sons.
2. Perhaps the generic name given to the king of the Kurus (cf. Brahmadatta). Once in the Jatakas Koravya is given as the name of the king of Indapatta in the Kuru country, this king being the father of Sutasoma (J.v.457). Elsewhere (J.ii.368; iii.400, 402; v.59, 61, 65; vi.256, 268, 273) Koravya appears as a title of Dhananjaya, king of the Kurus. Koravya may also have been used as an adjective, for we find it explained as Kururatthavasika (E.g., J.vi.273). The Koravya king probably belonged to the Yudhitthilagotta (See J.iv.361). The Anguttara Nikaya (iii.369f) mentions a king Koravya who owned a large banyan tree named Suppatittha. According to the Ratthapala Sutta (M.ii.65; see also Thag.776.ff; ThagA.ii.34; for details see Ratthapala), in the Buddhas day, too, the ruler of Kuru was called Koravyaraja, and he owned a park which seems to have been called Migacira (q.v.). This king was evidently interested in religious discussion. Thullakotthika was his capital. The Avadanasataka (i.67; ii.118; see also Camb. Hist. of India, i.121, which refers to a half mythical Pancala king, Kraivya) speaks of a Kauravya of Thullakotthika.
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
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarykorabya : (adj.) a descendant of kuru; belonging to the country of Kurus.
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koravya : (adj.) a descendant of kuru; belonging to the country of Kurus.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryKorabya, (Sk. kauravya) Np. as cognomen: the descendant of Kuru J. II, 371 (of Dhanañjaya). (Page 229)
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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Full-text: Shurasena, Migacira, Vidhura, Kalashoka, Vidhurapandita Jataka.
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Vidhura Jataka (nr. 548) (by R. F. ST. Andrew St. John)
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Vidurapaṇḍita Jātaka < [Chapter 3 - Amarāvatī and the Formative Stage of the Buddhist Art]
Apadana commentary (Atthakatha) (by U Lu Pe Win)
Commentary on the Biography of the thera Raṭṭhapāla < [Chapter 2 - Sīhāsaniyavagga (lion-throne section)]
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Biography (20-21): Rāhula and Raṭṭhapāla Mahātheras < [Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles]
(8) Eighth Pāramī: The Perfection of Resolution (adhiṭṭhāna-pāramī) < [Chapter 6 - On Pāramitā]
Part 4 - Taming of Āḷavaka the Ogre < [Chapter 33 - The Buddha’s Fifteenth Vassa at Kapilavatthu]
The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)