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ajjhāyaka {pi}


Pāḷi; √ ajjhāyaka
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alt. sp.: IPA: əd͡ʒd͡ʒʰɑːjəkə, Velthuis: ajjhaayaka, readable: ajjhaayaka, simple: ajjhayaka
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khmer: អជ្ឈាយក
thai: อชฺฌายก
sinhal.: අජ්ඣායක
burm.: အဇ္ဈာယက
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ATI Glossary

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Buddhist Dictionary

by late Ven. Nyanalokita Thera:

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PTS Dictionary

by the Pali Text Society:

 

Glossary Thanissaro

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Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms

by Ven. Varado Maha Thera:

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Ajjhāyaka means mantajjhāyaka

Ajjhāyaka means ‘one who studies,’ but it is an abbreviation. The full term is shown at MN i 282 to be mantajjhāyaka. Therefore ajjhāyaka means ‘scholar [of the sacred texts].’ This is in accordance with PED which calls it ‘a scholar of the brahmanic texts, a studious, learned person,’ and the DOP, ‘one who studies (the Vedas)’ The Buddha in the following quote implies that it can be applied to his own bhikkhus (because Brahmanists were priests not ascetics), and the term is therefore not restricted to students of brahmanical texts:

• I do not say that the asceticism of a scholar of the sacred texts is merely due to his scholarship of sacred texts.

Nāhaṁ bhikkhave mantajjhāyakassa mantajjhāyakamattena sāmaññaṁ vadāmi. (MN i 282)

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ajjhāyako

Illustration: ajjhāyako, scholar [of the sacred texts]

The brahman Doṇa said of himself

• I am a scholar [of the sacred texts]

• I know by heart the sacred texts

• I am a master of the three Vedas

tiṇṇaṁ vedānaṁ pāragū. (AN iii 223)

‘Even though brahmans are born into families of scholars [of the sacred texts] and have an intimate relationship with the sacred texts, they are repeatedly found involved in unvirtuous deeds.

Ajjhāyakakule jātā brāhmaṇā mantabandhavā
Te ca pāpesu kammesu abhiṇhamupadissare. (Snp 140)

 

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See also

Suttas and Dhammadesanā

Discussion: ajjhāyaka - អជ្ឈាយក (scholar)

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