Pāli Dictionary

pañcavaggiya

approximate

pañcastemvaggiyasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

doctrine

  • appartenant à un groupe de cinq; (surtout) épithète des cinq premiers ascètes (Koṇḍañña et ses compagnons)

  • 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

  • Le groupe des cinq ascètes — Aññāta-Koṇḍañña, Bhaddiya, Vappa, Mahānāma et Assaji — qui pratiquèrent l’austérité avec le Bodhisatta, le quittèrent lorsqu’il abandonna cette voie, mais devinrent ses premiers disciples après avoir entendu son premier discours à Isipatana.

  • 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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