Pāli Dictionary

Mahātissa4

Person

Ein Mönch aus Cetiyagiri, der auf der Stelle die Arahantschaft erlangte, nachdem ihn die Zähne einer lächelnden Frau nur einen Haufen Knochen erkennen ließen.

He lived in Cetiyagiri, and one day, while on his way to Anurādhapura, saw a woman who was leaving her husband, having quarrelled with him. She was beautifully dressed, and seeing the elder, smiled at him, in order to show her perfect teeth. The elder looked at her, and acquiring the perception of “the foul” through thinking of the bones of her teeth, became an Arahant. The husband followed his wife and asked the elder if he had seen her. The elder replied, “I know not if it was a man or a woman, but I saw a lump of bones.” Vism.20 f., 194.

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