Vijjadhara, Vijja-dhara, Vijjādhara: 7 definitions
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India history and geography
Vijjādhara is a Pali word referring “a knower of charms” and is known in Sanskrit as Vidyādhara.
Vijjādhara is the name of an ancient cave that once existed near Polonnaruva (Polonnaruwa), Ceylon (Sri Lanka).—To north of the Ālāhana Pariveṇa were:—(i) Uttarārāma, now called Galvihāra, built by Parakkamabāhu I by breaking down the rock near the Mahāthūpa or Damila Thūpa and constructing 3 caves, (a) the Vijjādhara cave, (b) the cave with the Sedent Image, and (c) the cave with the Recumbent Image.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Pali-English dictionary
vijjādhara : (adj.) a knower of charms; a sorcerer.
Vijjādhara refers to: a knower of charms, a sorcerer J. III, 303, 529; IV, 496; V, 94; Miln. 153, 200, 267.
Note: vijjādhara is a Pali compound consisting of the words vijjā and dhara.
vijjādhara (ဝိဇ္ဇာဓရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vijjā+dhara+a．ka．527．rū．568．ijjhanākāraṃ gandhārivijjaṃ vā upacārasiddhaṃ patthitasiddhaṃ aññaṃ vā vijjaṃ vā upacārasiddhaṃ patthitasiddhaṃ aññaṃ vā vijjaṃ dhārentīti vijjādharā．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,2．3va2．vijjaṃ mantādikaṃ dharatīti vijjādharo．kappadduma．vidyādhara-saṃ．vijjāhara-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝိဇ္ဇာ+ဓရ+အ။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၅၂၇။ရူ။၅၆၈။ ဣဇ္ဈနာကာရံ ဂန္ဓာရိဝိဇ္ဇံ ဝါ ဥပစာရသိဒ္ဓံ ပတ္ထိတသိဒ္ဓံ အညံ ဝါ ဝိဇ္ဇံ ဝါ ဥပစာရသိဒ္ဓံ ပတ္ထိတသိဒ္ဓံ အညံ ဝါ ဝိဇ္ဇံ ဓာရေန္တီတိ ဝိဇ္ဇာဓရာ။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊၂။ ၃ဝ၂။ ဝိဇ္ဇံ မန္တာဒိကံ ဓရတီတိ ဝိဇ္ဇာဓရော။ ကပ္ပဒ္ဒုမ။ ဝိဒျာဓရ-သံ။ ဝိဇ္ဇာဟရ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
vijjādhara—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဝိဇ္ဇာဓိုရ်၊ ဂန္ဓာရီ-စသော ဝိဇ္ဇာ-အတတ်ပညာ-မန္တန်-ကို ဆောင်တတ်သော၊ သူ။ (၂) ပညာရှင်၊ အသိ-အတတ်-ပညာရှင်။(၂) ဝိဇ္ဇာဓရသမာကုလ-ကြည့်။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) A person who can carry the wisdom, the proficiency of knowledge and art. (2) A scholar, an expert in knowledge and skills. (3) Look at the wisdom-related discussion. Refer to the original.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Vijjadhara (ವಿಜ್ಜಧರ):—[noun] a god belonging to a class 'ವಿದ್ಯಾಧರ [vidyadhara]'.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Vijja, Dhara, A, Tara.
Starts with (+0): Vijjadhara Guha, Vijjadharaiddhi, Vijjadharajataka, Vijjadharakumara, Vijjadharakumaraka, Vijjadharaparisa, Vijjadharapurisa, Vijjadharasamakula, Vijjadharasiddhasamanatapasaganadhivuttha, Vijjadharataruna, Vijjadharayoni.
Full-text (+2): Vijjadharapurisa, Vijjadharaparisa, Vijjadharaiddhi, Vijjadharataruna, Vijjadharakumara, Vijjadharayoni, Vijjadharasamakula, Vijjadharasiddhasamanatapasaganadhivuttha, Vijjadharajataka, Vidyadhara, Uttararama, Vijjadhara Guha, Vayu, Kesarapupphiya, Ti Kanikarapupphiya, Galvihara, Damilathupa, Mahathupa, Chi ming, Uttara.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
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Commentary on Biography of the thera Mahākaccāna < [Chapter 4 - Kuṇḍadhānavagga (section on Kuṇḍadhāna)]
Historical topograhpy of ancient and medieval Ceylon (by C. W. Nicholas)
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Lay-Life of India as reflected in Pali Jataka (by Rumki Mondal)
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