Pāli Dictionary

āḷāra

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • आळार कालाम; सत्य की खोज में बुद्ध के पहले शिक्षक

  • Āḷāra Kālāma; the first teacher of the Buddha during his quest for enlightenment

  • MN 36

    so evaṃ pabbajito samāno kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno yena āḷāro kālāmo ten'upasaṅkamiṃ, upasaṅkamitvā āḷāraṃ kālāmaṃ etadavocaṃ, icchām'ahaṃ, āvuso kālāma, imasmiṃ dhammavinaye brahmacariyaṃ caritun'ti.

  • MN 26

    ayaṃ kho āḷāro kālāmo paṇḍito viyatto medhāvī dīgharattaṃ apparaj'akkhajātiko. yaṃnūn'āhaṃ āḷārassa kālāmassa paṭhamaṃ dhammaṃ deseyyaṃ.

Encyclopedia

Aḷāra
Person

  • विदेह देश का एक भूस्वामी, जिसने बंदी नागराज संखपाल को छुड़ाया, नाग लोक में एक वर्ष के वैभव से पुरस्कृत हुआ, बाद में तपस्वी बना, और सारिपुत्त के पूर्वजन्म के रूप में पहचाना जाता है

  • A landowner of the Videha country who ransomed the captured Nāga king Saṅkhapāla, was rewarded with a year of splendour in the Nāga realm, later became an ascetic, and is identified as a former birth of Sāriputta.

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