Pāli Dictionary

Sucimukhī

Person

라자가하에서 사리풋따에게 그가 탁발 음식을 먹는 방식에 대해 질문한 여성 유행자로, 점술과 점성술 같은 저급한 기예를 멀리한다는 그의 설명에 만족하여 부처님 제자들의 결백함을 칭송하며 돌아다녔다.

A wanderer (paribbājikā).

She once saw Sāriputta in Rājagaha eating his meal, which he had begged from house to house, leaning against a wall. Sucimukhī asked him why he looked downwards while eating. When Sāriputta disclaimed doing so, she asked him, respectively, why he ate looking upwards, towards the four quarters, between the four quarters. He denied the truth of all her statements, and then explained to her his reason for his denial. He lived neither by such low arts (tiracchānavijjāya) as divination (vatthuvijjā),¹ nor by astrology (nakkhattavijjā), running errands (dūteyyapahiṇagamanānuyogāya), or palmistry (aṅgavijjātiracchānavijjāya).

Sucimukhī understood, and went about Rājagaha praising the blamelessness of the Sakyan monks. S.iii.238 f; SA.ii.253.

SN 28.10

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