Pāli Dictionary

nakulapitar

nakulastempitarsuffix

via inflected form nakulapitā · nominative singular / vocative singular

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • ナクラピター（ナクラの父、仏陀の在家大弟子、信頼第一）

  • Nakulapitā, ‘father of Nakula’, a householder and great lay disciple of the Buddha, foremost in trustworthiness/intimacy

  • SN 22.1

    idam'avoca āyasmā sāriputto. attamano nakulapitā gahapati āyasmato sāriputtassa bhāsitaṃ abhinandī'ti.

  • AN 1.257

    etadaggaṃ, bhikkhave, mama sāvakānaṃ upāsakānaṃ vissāsakānaṃ yadidaṃ nakulapitā gahapatī'ti.

Encyclopedia

Nakulapitā
Person

  • 妻ナクラマーターと共に、五百の過去世で仏陀の両親であったことから、仏陀によって最も献身的な在家信者と宣言されたスンスマーラギリの居士。

  • A householder of Suṃsumāragiri who, together with his wife Nakulamātā, was declared by the Buddha to be his most devoted lay disciples, having been his parents in five hundred past lives.

SN 22.1AN 4.55AN 6.16

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