Thupa, Thūpa: 7 definitions
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India history and geography
Thupa is synonymous with Stupa: an outstanding type of architectural creation of ancient Sri Lanka. Under the influence of Buddhism, there were several changes in the field of architecture in Sri Lanka. The stupa commands a prominent place among these changes.
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Pali-English dictionary
thūpa : (m.) a tope; pagoda; a cairn; a monument erected over the ashes of a holy person.
Thūpa, (Vedic stūpa, crown of the head, top, gable; cp. Gr. stu/pos (handle, stalk). Oicel. stūfr (stump), to *steud as in tudati) a stupa or tope, a bell-shaped pile of earth, a mound, tumulus, cairn; dome, esp. a monument erected over the ashes of an Arahant (otherwise called dhātugabbha=dāgaba), or on spots consecrated as scenes of his acts. In general as tomb: Vin. IV, 308; J. III, 156 (mattika°)=Pv. I, 84; in special as tope: D. II, 142, 161, 164 sq.; A. I, 77; M. II, 244; J. V, 39 (rajata°); VvA. 156 (Kassapassa bhagavato dvādasayojanikaṃ kanaka°); Ud. 8; Pv III, 105. Four people are thūpârahā, worthy of a tope, viz. a Tathāgata, a Tathāgatasāvaka, a Paccekabuddha, a Cakkavattin D. II, 143= A. II, 245.—At Dpvs VI, 65 th. is to be corrected into dhūpaṃ. (Page 309)
1) thūpa (ထူပ) [(na) (န)]—
[thūpa+cīvara．kye．]
[ထူပ+စီဝရ။ နောက်ပုဒ်ကျေ။]
2) thūpa (ထူပ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[thūpa+a．thūpiyati rāsikarīyatīti thūpo,atha vā thūpati thirabhāvena vuddhiṃ viruḷhiṃ vepullaṃ āpajjamāno patiṭṭhātīti thūpo．apa,ṭṭha,2．154．(nīti,dhā．326-)．thu+pa．thuabhitthave,po,dīghādi．,ṭī．436．(mahā-ni,nimi,ṭī．pe．ṇvādi．115-)．(stūpa-saṃ)]
[ထူပ+အ။ ထူပိယတိ ရာသိကရီယတီတိ ထူပေါ၊ အထ ဝါ ထူပတိ ထိရဘာဝေန ဝုဒ္ဓိံ ဝိရုဠှိံ ဝေပုလ္လံ အာပဇ္ဇမာနော ပတိဋ္ဌာတီတိ ထူပေါ။ အပ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၁၅၄။ (နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၃၂၆-လည်းကြည့်)။ ထု+ပ။ ထုအဘိတ္ထဝေ၊ ပေါ၊ ဒီဃာဒိ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၄၃၆။ (မဟာ-နိပါတ်၊ နိမိဇာတ်၊ ဋီ။ ပေ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၁၁၅-လည်းကြည့်)။ (သ္တူပ-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) thūpa—
(Burmese text): (၁) စေတီ၊ ပုထိုး (ဓာတ်တော်အိမ်=ဓာတ်တော်တိုက်)၊ (က) ဓာတ်တော်ရှိသော-စေတီ-ပုထိုး။ (ခ) ဓာတ်တော်မရှိသော-စေတီ-ပုထိုး။ (ဂ) အဦးလိုဏ်မုခ်ရှိသော-စေတီ-ပုထိုး။ (ဃ) အဦးလိုဏ်မုခ်မရှိသော-စေတီ-ပုထိုး။ (င) ရတနာစေတီ၊ ရွှေစေတီ။ (စ) ပတ္တမြားစေတီ။ (ဆ) အုတ်စေတီ။ (ဇ) မြေစေတီ။ (ဈ) အရိုးစေတီ။ (ည) သဲပုံစေတီ။ (ဋ) ဝါးစေတီ၊ ဝါးနှီးစေတီ။ (၂) ထောက်တည်-မှီခို-ရာ။ (၃) လွှမ်းမိုးမြင့်မောက်၍ ထွက်မြောက်ကြောင်း (သဘော)။ (၄) တောင်ပို့၊ မိုမောက်-စုန့်စုန့် မြင့်တက်-သော မြေအရပ်။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Stupa, pagoda (pagoda house = pagoda tower), (a) pagoda with stupa, (b) pagoda without stupa, (c) pagoda with steeple, (d) pagoda without steeple, (e) gem stupa, golden stupa, (f) crystal stupa, (g) brick stupa, (h) earth stupa, (i) bone stupa, (j) sand sculpture stupa, (k) bamboo stupa, bamboo joint stupa. (2) Foundation - support - place. (3) Rising high with influence (concept). (4) Mountain delivery, emerging lofty land with gradual ascent. Please refer to the original.
2) thūpa—
(Burmese text): (က) တောင်ပို့၌ ပူဇော်အပ်သော သင်္ကန်း။ (ခ) တောင်ပို့ကို-ရစ်ပတ်-လွှမ်းခြုံ-၍ ပူဇော်အပ်သော သင်္ကန်း။ ထူပစီဝရ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (a) The stupa placed for worship at Taungpo. (b) The stupa that is worshipped while being surrounded by Taungpo-Ritpat. Also, take a look at the Thupasyi Wara.
Thūpa (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 塔 [tǎ]: “stūpa”.
2) 浮屠 [fú tú]: “(Skt. buddha)”.
3) 窣堵波 [sū dǔ bō]: “(Skt. stūpa)”.
4) 窣覩波 [sū dǔ bō]: “(Skt. stūpa)”.
5) 素覩波 [sù dǔ bō]: “(Skt. stūpa)”.
6) 舍利塔 [shě lì tǎ]: “reliquary”; “tumulus”.
7) 藪斗婆 [sǒu dòu pó]: “(Skt. stūpa)”.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Thūpa (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 塔婆 [tǎ pó]: “shrine”.
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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Partial matches (+0): The, The, Civara, Thupa, A, Te.
Starts with (+23): Dupara, Thupabhimukhi, Thupacivara, Thupagata, Thupageha, Thupaghara, Thupakarapaka, Thupakhandha, Thupakucchi, Thupamaha, Thupamatthaka, Thupanucchavika, Thupapakara, Thupapamukha, Thupapatitthana, Thupapubbangama, Thupapuja, Thuparaha, Thuparama, Thupasettha.
Full-text (+298): Thupacivara, Thuparama, Thupati, Thupavamsa, Mahathupa, Thupikata, Thuparaha, Kancanathupa, Thupathupa, Angarathupa, Manithupa, Pamsuthupa, Damilathupa, Lohitankathupa, Kanakathupa, Rajatathupa, Valukathupa, Dhatugabbhathupa, Buddhathupa, Jinathupa.
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