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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

1. Aggika Bharadvaja - A brahmin of Savatthi, of the Bharadvaja clan. The Buddha, while on his rounds, sees him tending the fire and preparing oblations, and stands for alms in front of his house. The brahmin abuses him, calling him mundaka and vasala. Thereupon the Buddha preaches to him the Vasala Sutta (or, as it is sometimes called. the Aggika Bharadvaja Sutta), and wins him over to the faith (Sn.21-5). The sobriquet Aggika was given to him because he was a tender of the sacred fire. SnA.i.174f.

2. Aggika Bharadvaja - A brahmin of Rajagaha, evidently different from the above, also a fire tender. He prepares a meal for sacrifice, and when the Buddha, out of compassion for him, appears before his house for alms, he says the meal is meant only for one who has the threefold lore (the three Vedas). The Buddha gives the brahmin another interpretation of the threefold lore; (see Aggika Sutta). The brahmin, thereupon, becomes a convert, enters the Order, and, in due course, attains arahantship. S.i.166f.; SA.i.179.

3. Aggika Bharadvaja - The name assumed by the jackal in the Aggika Jataka.

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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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Partial matches: Aggika, Bharadvaja.

Starts with: Aggika Bharadvaja Sutta.

Full-text: Aggika Sutta.

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