84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཏོའུ་ཏེ་ཡ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཏོའུ་ཏེ་ཡ།

  • ཏོའུ་དེ་ཡ།
  • to’u te ya
  • to’u de ya
  • taudeya
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  • Taudeya
  • ཏོའུ་དེ་ཡ།
  • to’u de ya
  • taudeya
Definition in this text:

Śuka’s father. In Pāli the name his Todeyya (see DPPN, s.v. “Todeyya”). He was a rich brahmin from Tudigāma who was reborn as a dog in his son’s house. The narrative frame of the Sanskrit versions and the Pāli commentaries of this sūtra contain his story, which is missing from the Tibetan translation.

  • Taudeya
  • ཏོའུ་ཏེ་ཡ།
  • to’u te ya
  • taudeya
Definition in this text:

A rich brahmin from Tudigāma (name of the town in the Pāli language) and Śuka’s father. (In Pāli, their names are given as Todeyya and Subha, respectively.)