Pāli Dictionary

kappitaka

kapperootitasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

kapp1适；宜

monastic

  • 劫毘多迦（Kappitaka），据传为优波离尊者剃度师（戒师）的一位长老之名

  • Kappitaka, name of a thera said to be the preceptor (upajjhāya) of the elder Upāli

Encyclopedia

Kappitaka
Person

  • 优波离的戒师，曾因比丘尼在其禅房附近建塔哀悼而心生不悦，将塔打碎，愤怒的比丘尼图谋加害于他时，幸得优波离及时示警。

  • The preceptor of Upāli who, disturbed by nuns lamenting over a shrine they had built near his cell, broke it apart and was warned in time by Upāli when the enraged nuns plotted to kill him.

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