Dighanikaya 1.1_46

1.1_46

Ādīsu hi satto māṇavoti vutto. ‘‘Māṇavehipi samāgacchanti katakammehipi akatakammehipī’’tiādīsu (ma. ni. 2.149) coro. ‘‘Ambaṭṭho māṇavo, aṅgako māṇavo’’tiādīsu (dī. ni. 1.316) taruṇo ‘māṇavo’ti vutto. Idhāpi ayamevattho. Idañhi vuttaṃ hoti – brahmadattena nāma taruṇantevāsinā saddhinti.

a living being is called ‘māṇava’. In passages such as “they also meet with youths [thieves], both those who have done their work and those who have not,” it means a thief. In passages such as “the youth Ambaṭṭha, the youth Aṅgaka,” a young man is called ‘māṇava’. Here too, this very meaning is intended. For this is what is said: along with the young pupil named Brahmadatta.