Pāli Dictionary

potaliputta

potalistemputtastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • Potaliputta, a wandering ascetic (paribbājaka) who debated the monk Samiddhi

  • MN 136

    sañcetanikaṃ, āvuso potaliputta, kammaṃ katvā kāyena vācāya manasā dukkhaṃ so vediyatī'ti.

Encyclopedia

  • A wanderer who misrepresented the Buddha’s teaching on action to the monk Samiddhi, then questioned him further before walking away noncommittally, prompting the Buddha to fault Samiddhi’s hasty reply; the episode is recorded in the Mahākammavibhaṅga Sutta.

MN 136

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