Kumarapanha, Kumārapañha, Kumārapañhā, Kumara-panha: 2 definitions

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In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

The fourth chapter of the Khuddaka Patha (Khp.2).

It consists of ten questions which, according to the Commentaries (KhpA.76; ThagA.i.479), the Buddha asked the young Sopaka, then an arahant though only seven years old, with the idea of giving him the upasampada ordination.

The boy arahant answered the questions and this conversation formed his ordination. (See also Thag.v.485; Ap.i.64f).

These questions were elaborated by the nun of Kajangala (see A.v.54ff). (q.v.).

The Majjhima Commentary (MA.ii.636) on the Ambalatthika Rahulovada Sutta seems to indicate a set of questions called Kumarapanha in connection with Rahula when he was seven years old.

See also SA.iii.99, where Buddhaghosa says that Cittagahapati, in a discussion with Nigantha Nataputta, referred to the Kumarapanha.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Kumarapanha in Pali glossary
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Kumārapañhā refers to: questions suitable for a boy Kh III, ;—lakkhaṇa divination by means of a young male child (+kumāri°) D. I, 9. (Page 221)

Note: kumārapañhā is a Pali compound consisting of the words kumāra and pañhā.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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