Pāli Dictionary

koka

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • a wolf

Encyclopedia

Koka
Person
  • 比丘の袈裟が身に落ちてきた時に死んだと思い込んだ自分の猟犬たちに引き裂かれた猟師。仏陀はこれを、少年を騙して蛇を捕まえさせ、その蛇に噛まれて死んだ医者に喩えた。

  • A hunter whose hounds, thinking him dead when a monk’s cloak fell upon him, tore their own master apart, an event the Buddha likened to a physician killed by the snake he had tricked a boy into catching.

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