Pāli Dictionary

Citta5

Person

ウンマーダ・チッターの子を殺すという約束を拒んだために処刑された、ディーガガーマニに仕える牧夫で、その後夜叉として生まれ変わった

A herdsman, servant of Dīghagāmani. He was put to death by the brothers of Ummāda-Cittā, because he refused to promise to kill Ummāda-Cittā’s child should it be a boy. He was reborn as a yakkha. See Cittarāja. Mhv.ix.22 f; MT.278.

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