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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

nerayika : (adj.) born in the hell; one doomed to suffer in the hell.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Nerayika, (adj.) (fr. niraya, cp. BSk. nairayika Divy 165) belonging to niraya or purgatory, hellish; one doomed to suffering in purgatory (n. satta=inhabitant of n.) Vin. II, 205 (āpāyiko n. kappaṭṭho); IV, 7; D. III, 6, 9, 12; A. I, 265; II, 231 (vedanaṃ vediyati ... seyyathā pi sattā nerayikā); III, 402 sq.; Sn. 664; Nd¹ 97 (gati); Vv 52¹, J. IV, 3 (sattā); Pug. 51; Vbh. 412 sq.; Vism. 415 (°sattā), 424; Miln. 148 (sattā); PvA. 27 (id.), 52 (°bhāva), 255; VvA. 23; Sdhp. 193, 198. (Page 378)

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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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Full-text: Necayika, Manussa, Parinirvana, Niraya.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Appendix 1 - The five hundred insults and five hundred praises to the Buddha < [Chapter XLII - The Great Loving-kindness and the Great Compassion of the Buddhas]

Emptiness 10: Emptiness of dharmas without beginning (anagraśūnyatā) < [Chapter XLVIII - The Eighteen Emptinesses]

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Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)

Third recitation section < [17. Schism in an Order (Saṅghabheda)]

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Vinaya Pitaka (1): Bhikkhu-vibhanga (the analysis of Monks’ rules) (by I. B. Horner)

Monks’ Expiation (Pācittiya) 2

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