Pāli Dictionary

Kapinaccanā

Place

一处大概位于毗舍离(Vesāli)附近的地方,据说因猴子与人曾在此起舞而得名,优波离(Upāli)的老师劫比多迦长老(Kappitaka)曾居于此。

A locality, probably near Vesāli, where lived the elder Kappitaka, teacher of Upāli (Pv.50).

It was so called because monkeys and men used to dance there (PvA.231).

Kapinaccanā may have been a name for the cemetery near Vesāli where Kappitaka (q.v.) lived (Vin.iv.306).

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