Indaka
PersonA yakkha residing at Indakūṭa near Rājagaha who once questioned the Buddha about how the soul acquires a material form, receiving in reply an explanation of embryonic growth without recourse to a soul.
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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