Makutabandhana: 3 definitions
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA shrine of the Mallas to the east of Kusinara, where the Buddhas body was cremated (D.ii.160-1).
Buddhaghosa explains that the Makutabandhana was a Hall in which the Malla chiefs put on their ornaments on festival days. It was called a cetiya because it was decorated (cittakatthena panesa cetiyam).
DA.ii.596; see also Dvy. 201. Hiouen Thsangs description (Beal, op. cit., ii.37) of the stupa erected at what is evidently Makutabandhana suggests a different explanation. It was there that the Mallas laid aside their diamond maces (? makuta) and fell prostrate on the ground with grief at the Buddhas death.
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
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMakuṭabandhana (मकुटबन्धन).—nt. (= Pali id.; compare prec.), name of a caitya of the Mallas: Divyāvadāna 201.6 (°naṃ, n. sg.); (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 595.4 (verse; °ne).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMakuṭabandhana (मकुटबन्धन):—[=makuṭa-bandhana] [from makuṭa] n. Name of a temple, [Divyāvadāna]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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