Acamadayika, Ācāmadāyikā: 1 definition
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA family in Rajagaha was afflicted with plague and all its members died except one woman. She broke through a wall (that being the customary method of avoiding infection) and went and lived in the backyard of another house. The inmates of the house, having compassion on her, gave her the remnants of their food.
One day, Maha Kassapa, rising after seven days and nights from nirodha samapatti, knowing that he could be of use to the poor woman, appeared before her asking for alms. Having nothing but rice water to give him, she asked him to go elsewhere, but the Elder showed his desire to accept her gift and refused alms offered to him by Sakka and by the inmates of the house behind which the woman lived.
With great joy she gave him the rice water, and the Elder then told her that three births earlier she had been his mother. That same night she died and was born in a vimana among the Nimmanarati gods.
Her story forms the basis of the Acama dayika Vimana Vatthu. Vv. p.17; VvA.99ff.
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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