Methuna: 4 definitions
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Methuna means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymethuna : (nt.) sexual intercourse; coupling.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryMethuna, (adj. -nt.) (fr. Vedic mithuna pair, der. fr. mithu. Cp. micchā) 1. (adj.) relating to sexual intercourse, sexual, usually with dhamma, sex intercourse, in phrase °� dhamma� paṭisevati to cohabit Vin. I, 96; D. II, 133; Sn. 291, 704; Nd1 139; Vism. 418; SnA 536.�(m.) an associate J. VI, 294 (na rājā hoti methuno).�2. (nt.) sexual intercourse (Vedic maithuna) D. I, 4; III, 9, 88 sq. , 133; Sn. 400, 609, 814, 835=DhA. I, 202; Nd1 139, 145; Pug. 67; Vism. 51. (Page 541)
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarymethuna (မေထု�) [(pu,na) (ပု၊�)]�
[mithuna+ṇa．mithunāna� ayantimethuno．kaṅkhā,ṭ�,�183．mithunāna� itthipurisāna� samānacchandāna� ācāromethunaṃ．,ṭī．317．]
[မိထု�+ဏ။ မိထုနာန� အယန္တိမေထုနော။ ကင်္ခါ၊ဋီ၊သစ်။၁၈၃။ မိထုနာန� ဣတ္ထိပုရိသာန� သမာနစ္ဆန္ဒာန� အာစာရောမေထုနံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၁၇။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ٳܲԲ�
(Burmese text): (�) တပ်မက်ခြင်းတူသူနှစ်ယောက်တို့၏ ဥစ္စာဖြစ်သေ� အကျင့်၊ မေထုန်အကျင့်။ (�) မေထုန်ရာသီ။ (�) ငယ်သူငယ်ချင်း၊ အပေါင်းအဖော်။ (�) နှစ်ဦး၊ နှစ်ယောက်၊ အစုံ။ (�) ယောက်ဖ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The nature of two companions, the practice of friendship. (2) The season of friendship. (3) Young friends, companions. (4) Two people, a pair, a group. (5) A person.
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.
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Starts with (+24): Methuna Sutta, Methunabhatu, Methunacetana, Methunacitta, Methunadhamma, Methunadhammabhava, Methunadhammadhippaya, Methunadhammapatti, Methunadhippaya, Methunagiddha, Methunaka, Methunakamarati, Methunakatha, Methunapaccaya, Methunaparajika, Methunapatisamyutta, Methunapatisevana, Methunappahanattha, Methunappatisevi, Methunappativirata.
Full-text (+20): Methunaka, Gulhamethuna, Methunaparajika, Methunupasamhita, Methunappahanattha, Methunaraga, Methunacetana, Patisevitamethuna, Methunasevana, Methunapaccaya, Methunasannissita, Methunasevaka, Methunacitta, Methunupakkama, Methunadhamma, Methunabhatu, Methunappatisevi, Methunassada, Methunavitikkama, Methunavitikkamana.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 2 - Story of Brahmin Magandhi < [Chapter 27b - The Buddha’s Ninth Vassa at Kosambī]
Part 10b - The method of fulfilling the Perfection of Morality (Sīla-Pāramī) < [Chapter 7 - On Miscellany]
International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
Role of panchakarma in migraine < [2017, Issue IX, September]
Buddhist Monastic Discipline (by Jotiya Dhirasekera)