Pāli Dictionary

āḷāra

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • アーラーラ・カーラーマ；仏陀が出家後に最初に師事した仙人

  • 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

  • 捕らわれたナーガ王サンカパーラを身代金で救った、ヴィデーハ国の地主で、ナーガの世界で一年間の栄華を報われ、後に苦行者となり、サーリプッタの前世であると同定される

  • 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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