Pāli Dictionary

pañcavaggiya

approximate

pañcastemvaggiyasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

doctrine

  • 五人一組の；（特に）最初に法を聞いた五比丘（コンダンニャら）

  • 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

  • アンニャータ・コンダンニャ、バッディヤ、ヴァッパ、マハーナーマ、アッサジの五比丘。菩薩と共に苦行を行ったが、菩薩が苦行を捨てた時に離れ、後にイシパタナで初転法輪を聞いて最初の弟子となった。

  • 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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