Kotumbara, Koṭumbara: 4 definitions
Introduction:
Kotumbara 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)
A country celebrated for the excellence of its cloth. v.l. Kodumbara. J.vi.51 (also 47), 500, 501; Mil.2, 331.
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
Koṭumbara, (nt.) (cp. BSk. kauṭumba Divy 559) a kind of cloth J. VI, 47 (coming from the kingdom of k.), 500 (spelt kodumb°).—°ka k. -stuffs Miln. 2. (Page 227)
1) koṭumbara (ကောဋုမ္ဗရ) [(na) (န)]—
[koṭumbara+ṇa．kuṭa+ambara．migalomāni koṭṭetvā sukhumānikatvā katamambaraṃ koṭumbaraṃ．,ṭī．291．]
[ကောဋုမ္ဗရ+ဏ။ ကုဋ+အမ္ဗရ။ မိဂလောမာနိ ကောဋ္ဋေတွာ သုခုမာနိကတွာ ကတမမ္ဗရံ ကောဋုမ္ဗရံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၉၁။]
2) koṭumbara (ကောဋုမ္ဗရ) [(na) (န)]—
[kuṭumba+rā+a．kuṭumbaṃrāti gaṇhāti etthāti koṭumbaraṃ¿]
[ကုဋုမ္ဗ+ရာ+အ။ ကုဋုမ္ဗံရာတိ ဂဏှာတိ ဧတ္ထာတိ ကောဋုမ္ဗရံ¿]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) koṭumbara—
(Burmese text): ကောဋုမ္ဗရတိုင်း။ကောဋုမ္ဗရ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Kothumabatain. Kothumabat - look.
2) koṭumbara—
(Burmese text): ကောဋုမ္ဗရတိုင်းဖြစ်အဝတ်၊ နူးညံ့သော သားမွေးထည်အဝတ်။
(Auto-Translation): A gown made of soft and delicate fabric for childbirth.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Kutumba, Kotumbara, A, Ra, Na.
Starts with (+0): Kotumbaranga, Kotumbararattha, Kotumbarasamakula, Kotumbarika, Kotumbariya.
Full-text (+0): Kotumbariya, Kotumbararattha, Kotumbarika, Kotumbarasamakula, Kodumbara, Kautumba.
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