Pāli Dictionary

eraka

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • 香蒲(一種用於編席、製作粗布的草)

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

Encyclopedia

Eraka
Person
  • 舍衛城顯赫家族出身的阿羅漢,放棄婚姻隨佛出家,歷經數日惡念侵擾後經佛陀訓誡而證得阿羅漢果。

  • 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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