Uruvilvakashyapa, Uruvilvākāśyapa, Uruvilva-kashyapa: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Uruvilvākāśyapa can be transliterated into English as Uruvilvakasyapa or Uruvilvakashyapa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraUruvilvākāśyapa (उरुविल्वाकाश्यप) or Urubilvākāśyapa is the name of a Jaṭila from Urubilvā (or Uruvilvā) who was converted by the Buddha, as mentioned in the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 36.—The same year as his enlightenment, the Buddha went to Urubilvā to convert the thousand Jaṭilas, fire worshippers, led by Uruvilvākāśyapa, a venerable old man aged one hundred and twenty years, and his two brothers, Nadī- and Gatākāśyapa. To impress these heretics, the Buddha performed no less than eighteen miracles, beginning with the taming of a venomous snake. Finally convinced of not having attained sainthood (arhattva) and that he did not even know the Path, Uruvilvākāśyapa asked to be received into the Buddhist order and his five hundred disciples made the same request. The Buddha agreed and the newly converted threw their garments of hide and their religious objects into the river in order to put on the Dharma robe.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryUruvilvākāśyapa (उरुविल्वाकाश्यप).—(in Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya Uruvilvă°; = Pali Uruvelă-kassapa), name of one of Buddha's disciples: Avadāna-śataka i.148.10 (ms. Uparivilvā°, ed. em. Uruvilvă° wrongly); Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 157.3; originally a jaṭila ascetic; story of his conversion, Mahāvastu iii.424.6 ff.; usually mentioned with his brothers Nadī-kāśyapa and Gayā-k°, qq.v., Mahāvastu iii.102.12, 20; 430.12, 18; 432.7; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 2.1; 207.3; Lalitavistara 1.10; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.196.5; Mahāvyutpatti 1049 (Nadī-k° 1050, Gayā-k° later, 1064): Sukhāvatīvyūha 2.4.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Uruvilva, Kashyapa.
Full-text: Gayakashyapa, Nadikashyapa, Upasena, Uruvilva, Urubilvakashyapa, Adhimukta, Kashyapa.
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The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Chapter XLIII - The Jātaka of Uruvilvā-Kāśyapa, Nadī-Kāśyapa and Gayā-Kāśyapa < [Volume III]
Chapter XLV - The conversion of Bimbisāra < [Volume III]
Chapter XLIV - The chapter of the thousand (Sahasravarga of the Dharmapada) < [Volume III]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 14 - Bringing innumerable beings to Arhathood by a single sermon < [Chapter LI - Seeing all the Buddha Fields]
Appendix 3 - Return of the Buddha to Kapilavastu < [Chapter V - Rājagṛha]
Introduction to third volume < [Introductions]
Tibetan tales (derived from Indian sources) (by W. R. S. Ralston)
A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)
Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Chapter XXIV - On Pure Actions (d) < [Section Four]
Chapter XXXI - On Bodhisattva Highly-virtuous King (e) < [Section Six]
Chapter XXXVII - On Bodhisattva Lion's Roar (e) < [Section Seven]