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noun · masculine
general
ブラフマーユ、ミティラーのヴェーダに通じた年老いたバラモンの名（中部91経『ブラフマーユ経』に登場）
Brahmāyu, name of a brahmin (a very old and learned brahmin of Mithilā, described in MN 91 Brahmāyusutta)
MN 91
tena kho pana samayena brahm'āyu brāhmaṇo mithilāyaṃ paṭivasati jiṇṇo vuḍḍho mahallako addhagato vayoanuppatto, vīsavassasatiko jātiyā, tiṇṇaṃ vedānaṃ pāragū sanighaṇḍukeṭubhānaṃ sākkharappabhedānaṃ itihāsapañcamānaṃ, padako, veyyākaraṇo, lok'āyata-mahāpurisalakkhaṇesu anavayo.
Encyclopedia
Brahmāyu
Person百二十歳のとき弟子ウッタラを遣わしてブッダの大人相を確かめさせ、自らブッダに会った後、死後は不還果に達したと宣言された、ミティラーのバラモン学者。
A brahmin scholar of Mithilā who, at the age of one hundred and twenty, sent his pupil Uttara to verify the Buddha’s bodily marks of a Great Man, and who, upon meeting the Buddha himself, was declared after his death to have become a Non-returner.
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