Patapana, Patāpana: 3 definitions
Introduction:
Patapana 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 Niraya (J.v.266, 453), so called because its heat was excessive (ativiya tapeti ti Patapano). J.v.271.
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
patāpana (ပတာပန) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[pa+tapa+ṇe+yu．patāpano avīcitthī,saṅghāto tāpano iti．．657．bhusaṃ tapanti asmiṃ patāpano．,ṭī．657．(pratāpano-saṃ)]
[ပ+တပ+ဏေ+ယု။ ပတာပနော အဝီစိတ္ထီ၊ သင်္ဃာတော တာပနော ဣတိ။ ဓာန်။၆၅၇။ ဘုသံ တပန္တိ အသ္မိံ ပတာပနော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၅၇။ (ပြတာပနော-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
patāpana—
(Burmese text): (၁) ပတာပနငရဲ၊ မဟာတာပနငရဲ။ (ယင်းငရဲကား မဟာပထဝီမြကြီးအတွင်း တည်ရှိသော ငရဲကြီး ၈-ထပ်တွင် ခုနစ်ခုမြောက်အောက်၌ တည်ရှိသော ငရဲကြီးဖြစ်သည်၊ ထိုငရဲ၌ ကျရောက်လာသူ ငရဲသားတို့ကို လွန်စွာ ပူလောင်စေတတ်,နှိပ်စက်တတ်သောကြောင့် ပတာပန (မဟာတာပန)ဟု ခေါ်သည်)။ (တိ) (၂) ပူပန်စေ-နှိပ်စက်-ဖိစီး-တတ်သော၊ သူ။ (၃) ထွန်းလင်း-တောက်ပ-စေတတ်သော (မဂ်တရား)။ (၃) ပတာပနဋ္ဌ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Patapan Hell, Maha Patapan Hell. (This hell is a large hell located within the great Maha Earth, situated on the seventh level of the eight-story hell. Those who fall into this hell are severely tortured and tormented, which is why it is called Patapan (Maha Patapan).) (2) (That which causes discomfort - torture - pressure.) (3) (That which causes brightness - radiance.) (4) Look at Patapan.
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: Yu, Pa, Ne, Tapa.
Starts with: Patapanattha.
Full-text: Mahapatapana, Patapanattha, Niraya.
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Search found 4 books and stories containing Patapana, Patāpana, Pa-tapa-ne-yu, Pa-tapa-ṇe-yu; (plurals include: Patapanas, Patāpanas, yus). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Abhidhamma in Daily Life (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa) (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa)
Part 1 - The nature of hells (niraya) < [Chapter 11 - Planes Of Existence]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
The eight great hells < [The world of transmigration]
Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Kamma and the Buddhist Hell < [Volume 16, Issue 4 (2025)]