Pāli Dictionary

eraka

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 부들 종류의 풀 (돗자리나 거친 천을 만드는 데 쓰임)

  • a kind of grass (typha/cattail) used for making mats, coverlets and coarse cloth

Encyclopedia

Eraka
Person

  • 결혼을 포기하고 부처님을 따랐으며, 며칠간 악한 생각에 시달린 끝에 부처님의 훈계로 아라한과를 증득한 사왓티의 저명한 가문 출신 아라한.

  • An Arahant of an eminent Sāvatthi family who renounced marriage to follow the Buddha and, after days troubled by evil thoughts, gained Arahantship through the Buddha’s admonition.

Thag 1.93

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