Parileyya, Pārileyya, Parileyyaka, Pārileyyaka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA town (nagara) near Kosambi. When the Buddha found that he could not persuade the Kosambi monks to refrain from quarrelling, he left Kosambi alone and unattended, and passing through Balaklonakaragama and Pacinavamsadaya, went to Parileyyaka, where he stayed at the foot of Bhaddasala in the Rakkhitavanasanda. There a certain elephant who, finding communal life distasteful, had left his herd, waited on the Buddha, ministering to all his needs. From Parileyyaka the Buddha went on to Savatthi (Vin.i.352f.; S.iii.95; Ud.iv.5; J.iii.489; M.i.320).
This was in the tenth year after the Enlightenment (BuA., p.3). The Commentaries (E.g., DhA.i.48ff.; iv.26 ff. UdA.250f.; see Thomas, op. cit., 117 n ) say that the elephants name was Parileyya, and describe in vivid detail the perfect manner in which he looked after the Buddha, omitting nothing, even to the extent of finding hot water for his bath. There was also there a monkey who offered the Buddha a honeycomb. Soon after, the monkey fell on a tree stump and died and was born in Tavatimsa.
Later, when Ananda came with five hundred others to invite the Buddha to return to Savatthi, Parileyyaka provided them all with food. He died of a broken heart when the Buddha left the forest, and was born in Tavatimsa in a golden palace, thirty leagues high, where he came to be known as Parileyyaka devaputta.
This elephant is identified with the elephant of the Bhisa Jataka. J.iv.314.
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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Starts with: Parileyyaka Sutta.
Full-text: Rakkhita Vanasanda, Madhudatar, Parileyyaka Sutta, Pacinavamsadaya, Bhaddasala, Apalala, Bhisa Jataka, Asibandhakaputta, Ghositarama.
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Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)
On going to Pārileyyaka < [10. The monks from Kosambī (Kosambaka)]
Questions of Upāli on harmony in the Saṅgha < [10. The monks from Kosambī (Kosambaka)]
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 6 - The Story of Kosambi Monks < [Chapter 1 - Yamaka Vagga (Twin Verses)]
Verse 328-330 - Admonition to Five Hundred Monks < [Chapter 23 - Nāga Vagga (The Great)]
Verse 227-230 - The Story of Atula the Lay Disciple < [Chapter 17 - Kodha Vagga (Anger)]
Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology (by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri)
A monkey offers honey to Buddha < [Chapter 3 - Amarāvatī and the Formative Stage of the Buddhist Art]
A Historical Study of Kaushambi (by Nirja Sharma)
General description and topography < [Chapter 2]
The Buddha and His Disciples (by Venerable S. Dhammika)
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Story of the schism of Kauśāmbī < [Chapter XXIV - The Virtue of Patience]