Pāli Dictionary

brahmāyu

brahmastemāyustem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 婆羅門耶，彌希羅城一位精通吠陀的年老婆羅門之名（見中部91經《婆羅門耶經》）

  • 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

  • 彌薩羅（Mithilā）一位博學的婆羅門，一百二十歲時曾派弟子優多羅（Uttara）前往查驗佛陀身上大人相之真偽，後親自拜見佛陀，去世後被佛陀宣告已證得阿那含果。

  • 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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