Nagadatta, aka: Nāgadatta; 4 Definition(s)



In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Nagadatta in Purana glossary... « previous · [N] · next »

Nāgadatta (नागदत्त).—One of the hundred sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. This Nāgadatta was killed by Bhīmasena. (Mahābhārata, Drona Parva, Chapter 157, Stanza 197).

Source: Puranic Encyclopaedia
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In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Nagadatta in Theravada glossary... « previous · [N] · next »

1. Nagadatta Thera

He once lived in a forest tract in Kosala and was inclined to be indolent. A deva, noticing this, admonished him, and it is said that Nagadatta paid heed to the warning. S.i.200.

2. Nagadatta

A deva, living, according to one account (SA.i.217), in Kelasapabbata; according to another (ThagA.i.138; AA.i.139), in Gandhamadana. Anuruddha, when residing in the Chaddantavana, used to pass by his dwelling, and the deva gave him milk rice with lotus honey. When Sivali visited Gandhamadana with five hundred monks, the deva gave them milk rice one day and clarified butter the next. When the monks inquired how he could get milk and ghee, he told them that this was the result of a gift of milk rice given by him in the time of Kassapa Buddha.

Nagadatta Sutta

Records the admonition given by a deva to Nagadatta Thera (q.v.). S.i.200.

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India history and geogprahy

Nāgadatta (नागदत्त) is an example of a name based on Nāga mentioned in the Gupta inscriptions. The Gupta empire (r. 3rd-century CE), founded by Śrī Gupta, covered much of ancient India and embraced the Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Derivation of personal names (eg., Nāgadatta) during the rule of the Guptas followed patterns such as tribes, places, rivers and mountains.

Source: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

Nagadatta is mentioned in a Jain text in connection with overseas trading in ancient India.—Early Buddhist and Jain literatures corroborate this: a Jain text, for instance, refers to a merchant, Nagadatta, who travelled to Suvarnabhumi (a reference to Sumatra) with five hundred ships to conduct trade. (The number is clearly exaggerated, but not the fact of the trade connection.)

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