Indaka
Person住在王舍城附近因陀窟(Indakūṭa)的一位夜叉,曾向佛陀请教灵魂如何获得物质形体,佛陀以胚胎自然发育的道理作答,未提及灵魂之说。
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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