Shuklodana, Śuklodana: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śuklodana can be transliterated into English as Suklodana or Shuklodana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraŚuklodana (शुक्लोदन) is one of the four sons of king Siṃhahanu, an ancient king of the solar clan (āditagotra or sūryavaṃśa) according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter VI). Accordingly, “King Śuklodana had two sons: 1) Po t’i (Bhadrika), 2) Y’i cha (Tiṣya)”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
General definition (in Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: BuddhismŚuklodana (शुक्लोदन) refers to one of the four sons of Siṃhahanu: an ancient king from the Solar dynasty (sūryavaṃśa) and a descendant of Mahāsaṃmata, according to the Mahāvastu chapter II.32 of the Mahāsaṃghikas (and the Lokottaravāda school). Śuklodana is known as Sukkodana according to the Dulva (the Tibetan translation of the Vinaya of the Sarvāstivādins).
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryŚuklodana (शुक्लोदन).—(Pali Sukko°), name of a brother of Śuddho-dana: Mahāvastu i.352.13; 355.19; iii.176.14 (father of Ānanda, Upadhāna, and Devadatta); Mahāvyutpatti 3600. In Mahāvastu iii.177.1, according to mss., another Śuklodana, also brother of Śuddho- dana, is named (just after iii.176.14 above), as the father of Nandana and Nandika (v.l. Nandaka); Senart em. to Śukrodana, referring to Kern, Der Buddhismus 310, who alleges among Śuddhodana's brothers, besides Śuklodana, also ‘Śukrodana or Śuklodana’. The source of Kern's statement is not clear to me; it would have to be a northern (Sanskrit or [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]) text; both forms would be Sukkodana in MIndic. In any case I think that Mahāvastu iii.177.1 has carelessly substituted a repetition of Śuklo° for Dhautodana of i.352.13 and 355.20 (or Droṇodana of Mahāvyutpatti 3601), the correct name of the fourth of the brothers, otherwise missing in this passage.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚuklodana (शुक्लोदन):—[from śukla > śukra] ([from] śukla + od) m. Name of a brother of Śuddhodana, [Buddhist literature]
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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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text: Shukrodana, Simhahanu, Bhadrika, Sukkodana, Shuddha, Amrita, Drona, Shukla, Tishya, Ananda, Devadatta, Upadhana.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 8 - Origin of the name Ānanda < [Chapter VI - The Great Bhikṣu Saṃgha]
Appendix 2 - The deity of the Bodhi tree (bodhivṛkṣadevatā) < [Chapter VI - The Great Bhikṣu Saṃgha]
Story of Devadatta, the victim of profit and honors < [Chapter XXIV - The Virtue of Patience]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 2 - The genealogy of Mahāsammata < [Book 1 - The beginning of the story of the Doctrine]
The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Chapter XVIII - The ordination of the five-hundred Śākyans < [Volume III]
Chapter XXXIII - The deer park (Mṛgadāya or Mṛgadāva) < [Volume I]
Chapter XXXII - Genesis of the world (Rājavaṃśa): the Śākyans and the Koliyans < [Volume I]
Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 3 - Country of Fei-she-li (Vaishali) < [Book VII - Five Countries]
A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)