Pāli Dictionary

ājīvaka

āprefixjīvrootakasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

jīv1leben

general

  • Ājīvaka; Angehöriger der nichtbuddhistischen asketischen Sekte des Makkhali Gosāla

  • an Ājīvaka; a naked ascetic belonging to the non-Buddhist renunciant sect founded by Makkhali Gosāla

  • MN 26

    evaṃ vutte, bhikkhave, upako ājīvako hupeyya'p'āvuso'ti

  • AN 6.57

    tatr'idaṃ, bhante, pūraṇena kassapena sukk'ābhijāti paññattā, ājīvakā ājīvakiniyo.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

ajīvakā
  1. ajī

    Ziege (weiblich)

  2. vakāvaka

    Wolf

najīvakā
  1. na

    nicht; nein; weder … noch

  2. jīvakājīvaka

    Jīvaka (Komārabhacca), der Leibarzt des Buddha; ein bedeutender Laienschüler

Encyclopedia

Ājīvakā
Otherapproximate

  • Eine Sekte nackter Asketen, die Makkhali Gosāla folgten und ein strenges Regelwerk zu Nahrung und Verhalten befolgten, in buddhistischen Texten als eine der am wenigsten wirksamen rivalisierenden Lehren jener Zeit angesehen.

  • A sect of naked ascetics who followed Makkhali Gosāla and observed a strict code of rules on food and conduct, regarded in Buddhist texts as among the least effective of the era’s rival teachings.

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