Pāli Dictionary

Indaka

Person

住在王舍城附近因陀窟(Indakūṭa)的一位夜叉,曾向佛陀請教靈魂如何獲得物質形體,佛陀以胚胎自然發育的道理作答,未提及靈魂之說。

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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