Pāli Dictionary

pañcavaggiya

approximate

pañcastemvaggiyasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

doctrine

  • zu einer Fünfergruppe gehörend; (bes.) Beiname der fünf ersten Asketen (Koṇḍañña u.a.)

  • belonging to a group of five; esp. epithet of the five ascetics (Koṇḍañña and companions) who first heard the Buddha’s teaching

  • MN 36

    tena kho pana maṃ, aggivessana, samayena pañcavaggiyā bhikkhū paccupaṭṭhitā honti, yaṃ kho samaṇo gotamo dhammaṃ adhigamissati, taṃ no ārocessatī'ti.

  • SN 22.59

    ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā bārāṇasiyaṃ viharati isipatane migadāye. tatra kho bhagavā pañcavaggiye bhikkhū āmantesi, bhikkhavo'ti. bhadante'ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ. bhagavā etadavoca

Encyclopedia

Pañcavaggiyā
Person

  • Die Gruppe der fünf Asketen — Aññāta-Koṇḍañña, Bhaddiya, Vappa, Mahānāma und Assaji —, die zusammen mit dem Bodhisatta Askese übten, ihn verließen, als er diesen Pfad aufgab, aber nach seiner ersten Lehrrede in Isipatana seine ersten Schüler wurden.

  • The group of five ascetics — Aññāta-Koṇḍañña, Bhaddiya, Vappa, Mahānāma, and Assaji — who practised austerities alongside the Bodhisatta, left him when he abandoned that path, but became his first disciples after hearing his first discourse at Isipatana.

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