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Mahākāḷa
Person舍多毘耶(Setabyā)一商人家族出身,兄弟三人中的長兄,聞佛說法後出家,在火葬場女工的協助下觀修屍骸而證得阿羅漢果。
A merchant of Setabyā, eldest of three brothers, who joined the Order after hearing the Buddha teach and attained Arahantship through meditating on a corpse’s remains arranged for him by a cremation-ground attendant.
Mahākāḷa2
Person舍衛城一位在家須陀洹弟子,受持布薩戒的一夜清晨,因竊賊將贓物棄置其身旁而被誤認為盜賊活活打死,此事竟與他前世構陷他人為賊的惡業遙相呼應。
A lay Stream-winner of Sāvatthi who, after keeping the uposatha vows overnight, was mistakenly beaten to death as a thief when stolen goods were dumped near him, an echo of a similar frame-up he himself had orchestrated in a past life.
Mahākāḷa3
Person一位長壽的龍王,得見此劫中相繼出世的四位佛陀,曾為阿育王塑造出栩栩如生的佛像,也曾守護取自羅摩伽摩(Rāmagāma)的佛陀舍利,直至被人取走。
A long-lived Nāga king who witnessed all four Buddhas of the present world-cycle, created a lifelike image of the Buddha for King Asoka, and guarded the Buddha’s relics from Rāmagāma until they were taken from him.
Mahākāḷa4
Other環繞犍陀摩羅山(Gandhamādana)的七座山峰之一。
One of the seven mountains surrounding Gandhamādana.
毗婆尸佛時代 Bandhumatī 城的一位居士,是憍陳如的前生;他與弟弟朱羅迦羅曾在莊稼生長的九個階段將初熟穀物供養佛陀。
A householder of Bandhumatī in the time of the Buddha Vipassī and a previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña, who with his brother Cūḷakāḷa offered the Buddha the first fruits of their harvest at nine stages of its growth.
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