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  • 友人シリグッタがかつて自分たちの師に仕掛けた策略を真似て、燃える炭の穴でブッダを辱めようとしたが、ブッダがそれを蓮の花の池に変えるのを見て、逆に自らが改宗した、サーヴァッティーのニガンタ派信徒。

  • A resident of Sāvatthi and follower of the Nigaṇṭhā who, imitating a trick his friend Sirigutta had played on their teachers, tried to humiliate the Buddha with a pit of burning coals, only to see the Buddha turn it into a bed of lotus flowers and convert him instead.

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