1. Somanassa. A king of Videha, who is credited with having founded the city of Mithilā. J.vi.47, 51.
2. Somanassa. The Bodhisatta born as the son of Renu, king of Uttarapañcāla. See the Somanassa Jātaka.
3. Somanassa. A Pacceka Buddha. Once, when the Buddha was staying at Indasālaguhā in Vediyakapabbata, an owl became fond of him, and even when he went for alms would accompany him half way, wait for his return, and then go back with him. One day when the Buddha was seated in the assembly of monks, the owl descended from its rock and worshipped him by lowering its wings, putting together its claws and bending its head.
The Buddha, seeing this, smiled, and said, in answer to Ananda's question, that one hundred thousand kappas hence the bird would become a Pacceka Buddha, Somanassa by name. MA.i.255f.; KhpA.151.
somanassa: lit 'glad-minded-ness' (su+manas+ya), gladness, joy; identical with 'mentally agreeable feeling' (cetasikā sukhā vedanā), belongs to the feeling-group (vedanākkhandha, s. khandha II), and is enumerated amongst the 22 faculties (indriya, q.v.). It may or may not be associated with kammically wholesome consciousness (s. Tab. I. 1-4, 9-12, 18-21), with kammically unwholesome consciousness (greedy c. ib. 22-25), and with kammically neutral consciousness (ib. 40, 42-45, 57-60, 66-69, 72-76. 81-84), - Somanassa is not identical with pīti (q.v.).
somanassa : [nt.] joy; delight; happiness.
Somanassa (nt.) [fr. su+mano; cp. domanassa] mental ease, happiness, joy D i.3; ii.278; iii.270; M i.85, 313; S iv.232; A ii.69; iii.207, 238; Dh 341; Sn 67; Pug 59; VbhA 73; PvA 6, 14, 133; DA i.53; it is more than sukha D ii.214; defined at Vism 461 (iṭṭh'ārammaṇ'<-> ânubhavana -- lakkhaṇaŋ, etc.). A syn. of it is veda 1. On term see also Cpd. 277.
-- indriya the faculty of pleasure D iii.224; S v.209 sq.; Dhs 18.
【中】 歡喜，高興，快樂。
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