Pāli Dictionary

araññakuṭikā

araññastemkuṭikāstem

Part of speech

noun · feminine

monastic

  • 森の中の小屋；小さな林間の庵（比丘が独り住むための）

  • a small forest hut; a little cabin in the woods (used by monks apart from a monastery)

  • SN 2.25

    evaṃ me sutaṃ, ekaṃ samayaṃ sambahulā bhikkhū, kosalesu viharanti himavantapasse araññakuṭikāya uddhatā unnaḷā capalā mukharā vikiṇṇavācā muṭṭhassatino asampajānā asamāhitā vibbhantacittā pākat'indriyā.

Encyclopedia

Araññakuṭikā
Place

  • 仏陀の時代に比丘たちが好んだ森の庵の総称で、大目犍連や大迦葉が使ったラージャガハ近郊の場所や、ディーガランギカやヒマラヤ山麓付近の他の場所も含む。

  • A generic term for the forest hermitages frequented by monks in the Buddha’s time, including sites near Rājagaha used by Mahā-Moggallāna and Mahā-Kassapa and others near Dīghalaṅghika and the Himalayan foothills.

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