කුශ තෘණ, කුස තණ, n. arrow or razor grass, a sacred or sacrificial grass, ඉළුක්. It is said that on the occasion the Buddha attained his Buddhahood a handful of this grass being presented to him, he threw it on the ground under a Bo-tree and it at once became a seat for him.

කුශතෘණ, arrow-grass, Paspalum sanguinale (Gram.). It is regazided as sacred because when a handful of it Was given to Buddha by a Brahman he cast it under a Bo-tree and it immediately became a seat for him.

තවුතිසා·භාවනය, n. (fr. තාව three, තිංස thirty), residence of the thirty-three: name of the second divine world, to which thirty-three very eminent saints went direct from this world and became gods presided over by Indra.

ත්‍රි·වචන, n. pl. three words or utterances; gram. the three numbers, viz. sing., dual and plural; three special utterances of Buddha: one on the day of his birth, one on the Previous page Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 271 -- day he became Buddha, and one on the day of his death, viz. (in Pali) I am lord of the world; I have passed through various existences; I attain (Nirvāna) without delay.

දක්‍ෂයා, n. clever person; name of a son of Brahma. He was called දක්‍ෂ because he sprang into being from the right-hand thumb of his father. He had sixty daughters, Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 273 -- twenty-seven of whom being married to the moon became the twenty-seven lunar mansions; one, දුර්‍ගා, was married to Siva, and thirteen became wives of කාශ්‍යප.

නන්‍ද·පුත්‍රී, n. ap. of Durgā who became incarnate as a daughter of Nanda.

නීල·ග්‍රීවයා, n. blue-necked one: ap. of the peacock, මොනරා; ap. of Siva whose neck became black through the poison he swallowed, produced at the churning of the ocean.

නු·වූ, neg. v. adj. pret. that was not or became not, නූණ.

බිම්බා, n. a name of queen Yasōdarā, wife of prince සිද්ධාර්‍ථ who afterwards became Buddha.

බෝධි·පර්‍ය්‍යංකය, n. Buddha-seat or throne, viz. the diamond throne which sprang up at the foot of the Bo tree when a Brahmin threw eight armfuls of kusa grass for Buddha to sit on the day he became Buddha.

මධ්‍ය·මණ්ඩලය, n. central region: මධ්‍යදේශය. According to Buddhists, the centre of the‍ Universe, viz. the middle of Jambudwipa. It was in this region—South Behar—that Gautama assumed Buddhaship and where the sacred bo tree stood and the kusa grass Previous page Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 476 -- became a throne and seat for his repose, and where he began his career of proclaiming his doctrines to the world.

යශෝ·ධරා, යසෝ·ධරා, n. (යශ:ධර), the wife of prince Siddhartha before he became Buddha.

රාහු, n. The ascending node considered as a demon. In H. myth. his mother was සිංහිකා; he was a dragon-tailed demon whom Vishnu decapitated in his wars with the demons during his incaruation as රාමචන්‍ද්‍ර, but as Ràhu was immortal his head and tail retained their separate existence and in the stellar sphere became the cause of eclipses, especially the head by attempting from time to time to swallow the sun and moon. The B. account differs considerably from the above, but agrees that Ràhu causes the eclipses as above said. Ràhu's head went to the North and his tail, කේතු, to the South and became respectively the ascending and descending nodes. See Hardy's Manual of Buddhism.

විය, v. pret, of වෙනවා: became, was, වුණ.

වු, v. adj. pret. became: as ලෙඩවූකල = ලෙඩ වුණකල; also affix to adjectives and verbs: හොඳවූ, මහත්වූ, which is good and large: කළාවූ, කරන්නාවූ, that did, that does.