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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

1. Valliya Thera. He was the son of a Malla chieftain of Pava and joined the Order with his companions, Godhika, Subahu and Uttiya, when they went on some embassy to Kapilavatthu and saw the Yamakapatihariya in Nigrodharama. Bimbisara later built huts for them, but he forgot to roof them, and so there was no rain till the roofs were added.

In the time of Siddhattha Buddha, Valliya offered him a handful of flowers. ThagA.i.123; his verse is included in the Thag. (vs. 53).

2. Valliya Thera. He was the son of an eminent brahmin of Savatthi, and, owing to his good friends, he met the Buddha and joined the Order, soon after attaining arahantship. Thirty one kappas ago he saw the Pacceka Buddha Narada at the foot of a tree, and built for him a hut of reeds, which he thatched with grass, together with a cloistered walk strewn with sand. He was seventy one times king of the devas and thirty four times king of men. ThagA.i.247; two verses in the Thag. (125-6) are attributed to him.

He is probably identical with Nalagarika of the Apadana. Ap.i.278f.

3. Valliya Thera. He belonged to a brahmin family of Vesali, and was named Gandimitta (v.l. Kanhamitta). Much struck by the Buddha when he came to Vesali, he joined the Order under Maha Kaccayana. Because he was dull of insight and depended too much on his colleagues, he was called Valliya (creeper), like the ivy which must lean on something in order to grow. Later, following the advice of Venudatta Thera, he developed insight.

In the time of Sumedha Buddha he was a rich brahmin, well versed in learning. Later, he renounced eighty crores of wealth, and, after becoming an ascetic, lived on a river bank. There the Buddha visited him, and, seated on an antelope skin, preached the Doctrine. The ascetic paid him great honour and gave him mangoes and perfume and flowers.

In the Apadana verses, quoted in ThagA., it is said that Valliya was born in the city of Vebhara, built by Vissakamma, and that he left the household at the age of five. ThagA.i.292f.; two verses addressed by him to Venudatta are included in the Thag. (167-8).

He is probably identical with Candanamaliya of the Apadana. Ap.ii.423f.

context information

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Valliya (ವಲ್ಲಿಯ):—[noun] = ವಲಿಯ [valiya].

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

valliya (ဝလ္လိယ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[valli+ka]
[ဝလ္လိ+က]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

valliya—

(Burmese text): (၁) ဝလ္လိယအမည်၊ ဝလ္လိယမည်သောသူ။ (၂) ဝလ္လိယမည်သော ထေရ်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The name of the walley, who is the walley. (2) A hair called the walley.

context information

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: Valli, Ka.

Starts with: Valli-ammaikuttam, Valliyai, Valliyaka, Valliyam, Valliyammai, Valliyamporuppu, Valliyan, Valliyatthera, Valliyavithi, Valliyon.

Full-text: Vallika, Kakavaliya, Valliyavithi, Valliyatthera, Kanhamitta, Valliyan, Venudatta, Parivelliya, Najupama, Kataman, Nalagarika, Nalakutidayaka, Vebhara, Subahu, Darubhandaka Mahatissa, Oruppatu, Nekil, Uttiya.

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