Pāli Dictionary

Kapila6

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A monk mentioned in the Commentaries whose greed for possessions caused him to be reborn as a hungry ghost seen flying through the air with his outer robe ablaze.

The Majjhimanikāya Commentary (i.75) has a reference to a monk named Kapila, who, because of his greed for possessions, is described as having been reborn with a flaming outer-robe (saṅghātī pi ādittā hoti). This probably refers to a monk mentioned in the Pārājikā (Vin.iii.107), who was reborn as a peta and who could be seen going through the air with his robe aflame.

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