Indaka
PersonEin Yakkha, der bei Indakūṭa nahe Rājagaha lebte und den Buddha einst fragte, wie die Seele eine materielle Gestalt erlange, und als Antwort eine Erklärung des Embryowachstums ohne Rückgriff auf eine Seele erhielt
A yakkha who lived in Indakūṭa, near Rājagaha. When the Buddha was staying at Indakūṭa, the yakkha questioned him as to how the soul finds its material counterpart. The Buddha, in reply, described how the embryo evolved into its final shape by the laws of physical growth and not by a soul’s fiat (S.i.206).
Buddhaghosa says (SA.i.231) that the yakkha was an animist (puggalavādin).
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