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Kumārapañha

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ඛුද්දකපාඨයේ සිව්වන පරිච්ඡේදය, බාල රහත් සොපාක වෙත බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ ඉදිරිපත් කළ ප්‍රශ්න දහයක සමූහයකි, ඔහුගේ උපසම්පදාව සඳහා අවස්ථාව විය.

The fourth chapter of the Khuddakapāṭha (Khp.2). It consists of ten questions which, according to the Commentaries (KhpA.76; ThagA.i.479), the Buddha asked the young Sopāka, then an Arahant though only seven years old, with the idea of giving him the higher ordination (upasampadā).

The boy-Arahant answered the questions and this conversation formed his ordination. (See also Thag.v.485; Ap.i.64 f). These questions were elaborated by the nun Kajaṅgalā (q.v.) (A.v.54 ff).

The Majjhimanikāya Commentary (MA.ii.636) on the Ambalaṭṭhika-Rāhulovāda Sutta seems to indicate a set of questions called Kumārapañha in connection with Rāhula when he was seven years old.

See also SA.iii.99, where Buddhaghosa says that Citta-gahapati, in a discussion with Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta, referred to the Kumārapañha.

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