Pāli Dictionary

pañcavaggiya

approximate

pañcastemvaggiyasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

doctrine

  • 五人一組的；（尤指）五比丘（憍陳如等最初聞法的五位苦行者）

  • 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

  • 五比丘——Aññāta-Koṇḍañña、Bhaddiya、Vappa、Mahānāma 與 Assaji——曾與菩薩一同苦行，在他放棄苦行時離去，後在仙人墮處聽聞其初轉法輪，成為最早的弟子。

  • 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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