Pāli Dictionary

Cunda Sutta

Sutta

A discourse in the Suttanipāta’s Uraga Vagga in which the smith Cunda Kammāraputta asks the Buddha to explain the four classes of recluses in the world.

The fifth sutta of the Uraga Vagga of the Suttanipāta. Cunda Kammāraputta visits the Buddha in his Mango-grove in Pāvā and questions him as to how many classes of recluses there are in the world. Four, answers the Buddha — a master of the path (maggajina), a shower of the path (maggadesaka), one who lives following the path (maggajīvī), and one who defiles the path (maggadūsī) — and proceeds to explain them (SN.vs.83-90; SNA.i.159 ff). The circumstances in which the sutta was taught are given s.v. Cunda (1).

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