With Kūṭadanta 14.1-7
Kūṭadantasutta 14.1-7
- Language
- Pāli
14.1
Purohito brāhmaṇo catūhaṅgehi samannāgato,
And the brahmin high priest had four factors.
14.2
ubhato sujāto mātito ca pitito ca saṃsuddhagahaṇiko yāva sattamā pitāmahayugā akkhitto anupakkuṭṭho jātivādena;
He was well born on both his mother’s and father’s side, stemming from a clean vessel, with irrefutable and impeccable genealogy back to the seventh paternal generation.
14.3
ajjhāyako mantadharo tiṇṇaṃ vedānaṃ pāragū sanighaṇḍukeṭubhānaṃ sākkharappabhedānaṃ itihāsapañcamānaṃ padako veyyākaraṇo lokāyatamahāpurisalakkhaṇesu anavayo;
He recited and remembered the hymns, and had mastered the three Vedas, together with their vocabularies and ritual performance, their phonology and word classification, and the testaments as fifth. He knew them word-by-word, and their grammar. He was well versed in cosmology and the marks of a great man.
14.4
sīlavā vuddhasīlī vuddhasīlena samannāgato;
He was ethical, mature in ethical conduct.
14.5
paṇḍito viyatto medhāvī paṭhamo vā dutiyo vā sujaṃ paggaṇhantānaṃ.
He was astute, competent, and intelligent, being the first or second to hold the sacrificial ladle.
14.6
Purohito brāhmaṇo imehi catūhaṅgehi samannāgato.
These are the four factors that the brahmin high priest possessed.
14.7
Iti imānipi cattāri aṅgāni tasseva yaññassa parikkhārā bhavanti.
And so these four factors also became accessories to the sacrifice.
Translations (5)
- ကူဋဒန္တသုတ် — Burmese
- Kūṭadanta — sr
- Mit Kūṭadanta — German
- With Kūṭadanta — English
- Kutadanta Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) — English
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
Linked texts (1)
- 長阿含經 — Classical Chinese