Pāli Dictionary

pañcavaggiya

pañcastemvaggiyasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

doctrine

  • 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
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  • 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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