Majjhima

An Arahant. He went, after the Third Council, as preacher to the Himālaya country (Mhv.xii.6), accompanied by four others:

• Kassapagotta,
• Durabhissara,
• Sahadeva, and
• Mūlakadeva.

Dpv.viii.10; MT. (317) has Dundu-bhissara for Durabhissara; Mbv. (115) agrees with MT., but has Sahassadeva; Sp. (i.68) gives their names as Kassapagotta, Alokadeva, Dundubhissara, and Sahadeva.

Majjhima preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta and eighty crores of persons became sotāpannas. The five Elders, separately, converted five kingdoms, and each of them ordained one hundred thousand persons. Mhv.xii.41ff.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from

majjhima : [adj.] middle; medium; moderate; central.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Majjhima (adj.) [Vedic madhyama, with sound change ˚ama>˚ima after Geiger, P.Gr. 191, or after analogy with pacchima, with which often contrasted] 1. middle, medium, mediocre, secondary, moderate. -- Applied almost exclusively in contrast pairs with terms of more or less, in triplets like "small -- medium -- big," or "first -- middle -- last" (cp. majjha 3b); viz. (a) of degree: hīna -- m -- paṇīta D iii.215 (tisso dhātuyo); Dhs 1205<-> 1027 (dhammā); Vism 11 (sīlaŋ); h. m. ukkaṭṭha Vism 308; omaka m. ukkaṭṭha Vin iv.243; khuddaka m. mahā Vism 100; lāmaka m. paṇīta (i. e. lokuttara) DhsA 45 (dhammā);paritta -- m -- uḷāra Sdhp 260. <-> (b) of time: paṭhame yāme majjhima˚ pacchima˚ J i.75; id. with vaye PvA 5. -- 2. (nt.) majjhimaŋ the waist, in cpd. su -- majjhimā (f.) a woman with beautiful waist J v.4.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,

majjhima: I. a. 1.中[間] 2.中等

巴漢辭典 編者：(斗六) 廖文燦