Pāli Dictionary
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Compound structure

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cūlavedallasutta
  1. cūla

    small; minor; lesser

  2. vedalla

    questions-and-answers exposition; catechism; one of the nine genre-divisions (aṅgas) of the canon

  3. sutta

    discourse (of the Buddha); sutta; sacred text (first of the nine limbs of the teaching)

Encyclopedia

Cūḷavedalla Sutta
Sutta

  • A discourse in which a nun answers a layman’s questions on personality, the Noble Eightfold Path and mental formations, later confirmed by the Buddha as exactly what he himself would have taught.

MN 44

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