Pāli Dictionary

kasibhāradvāja

approximate

kasistembhāradvājastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • Kasibhāradvāja, a brahmin farmer (interlocutor of the Buddha in the Kasibhāradvāja Sutta)

  • SN 7.11

    tena kho pana samayena kasibhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa pañcamattāni naṅgalasatāni payuttāni honti vappakāle. atha kho bhagavā pubb'aṇhasamayaṃ nivāsetvā pattacīvaram'ādāya yena kasibhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa kamm'anto ten'upasaṅkami.

Compound structure

analyses: 1

kasībhāradvāja
  1. kasī

    ploughing; farming; agriculture; cultivation of the soil

  2. bhāradvāja

    the Bhāradvāja clan; a brahmin gotra

Encyclopedia

Kasī Bhāradvāja
Person

  • A farming brahmin of Ekanāḷā whom the Buddha visited during a sowing festival and engaged in a famous exchange about true farming, leading to the brahmin’s conversion after the Buddha refused to accept his food as wages.

Snp 1.4Snp 1.04·Takes refuge

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