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Vajirapāṇi
Person一位夜叉,被認作即帝釋天,職責是以雷杵威嚇拒不回答佛陀合理提問之人,見於阿摩晝與薩遮迦的故事中。
A yakkha, identified with Sakka, whose role was to threaten with a thunderbolt anyone who refused to answer a Buddha’s reasonable question, as seen in the cases of Ambaṭṭha and Saccaka.
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