Mallaka
PersonEin Ältester, der beim Anblick eines gepflügten Feldes ein Meditationszeichen entwickelte, die fünf Vertiefungen kultivierte und durch Einsicht die Arahantschaft erlangte.
An elder. As he stood one day looking at a ploughed field a sign arose in him of the size of the field. He enlarged it, induced the five absorptions (jhāna), and, developing insight, became an Arahant (Vism.123).
He is mentioned as consulting Dīghabhāṇaka Abhaya on some problem connected with absorption (jhāna). Vism.265 f.
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