Pāli Dictionary

brahmāyu

brahmastemāyustem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 브라흐마유, 미틸라의 베다에 정통한 늙은 바라문의 이름(맛지마 니까야 91경 브라흐마유경에 등장)

  • 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

  • 백스무 살에 제자 웃따라를 보내 부처님의 대인상을 확인하게 하고, 이후 몸소 부처님을 만났으며, 죽은 뒤 불환자가 되었다고 선언된 미틸라의 바라문 학자.

  • 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.

MN 91

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