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candikāputta

candikāstemputtasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • name of a monk, Candikaputta (son of Candika), who taught on Devadatta in the Anguttara Nikaya

  • AN 9.26

    ekaṃ samayaṃ āyasmā ca sāriputto āyasmā ca candikāputto rājagahe viharanti veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe. tatra kho āyasmā candikāputto bhikkhū āmantesi

Encyclopedia

Candikāputta
Person

  • The elder who delivered a discourse to the monks on Devadatta’s teaching, recorded as the Silāyūpa Sutta, and whose name derives from his mother Candikā.

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