Mallaka
Person耕された田を見て禅定の相を得て、五種の禅を修め、観法によって阿羅漢果を得た長老。
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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