Mahavacakala, Mahāvācakāla: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesMahavacakala Mahavacakala
A man who lived on the banks of the Mahavalukaganga. For thirty years he meditated on the thirty two impurities of the body in the hope of becoming a sotapanna. But at the end of that period he gave up his meditations, renouncing the Buddhas Doctrine as futile.
After death he was born as a crocodile in the river, and one day sixty carts laden with stone pillars started crossing the river at Kacchakatittha. The crocodile ate bulls, carts, and pillars. AA.i.367.
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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Full-text: Kacchaka Tittha.
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