Pāli Dictionary

kappitaka

kapperootitasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

kapp1適；宜

monastic

  • 劫毘多迦（Kappitaka），據傳為優波離尊者剃度師（戒師）的一位長老之名

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

Encyclopedia

Kappitaka
Person

  • 優波離的戒師，曾因比丘尼在其禪房附近建塔哀悼而心生不悅，將塔打碎，憤怒的比丘尼圖謀加害於他時，幸得優波離及時示警。

  • 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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