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Etymology. The name Devadatta means god-given in Palī and Sanskrit. It is composed from the stem form of deva ("god") and the past participle datta of the verb da ("to give"), composed as a tatpuruṣa compound. In the Bhagavad Gītā, the conch shell used by Arjuna on the battle-field of Kurukshetra was named Devadatta.
May 31, 2022 · 1) Devadatta (देवदत्त).—A famous brahmin boy whose story is described in the Kathāsaritsāgara. Devadatta was the son of the Brahmin, Haridatta of Kambukapura. Though as a boy Devadatta learnt all the arts and sciences when he grew up to be a youth he became a very wayward fellow. Dice-play became his main job.
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Feb 5, 2018 · The Story of Devadatta. The disciple who turned against the Buddha. According to Buddhist tradition, the disciple Devadatta was the Buddha's cousin and also brother to the Buddha's wife, Yasodhara. Devadatta is said to have caused a split in the sangha by persuading 500 monks to leave the Buddha and follow him instead.
Devadatta (flourished 6th century bce, India) was a Buddhist monk who sought to reform the sangha (monastic community) by imposing upon it a stricter code of life. He was a cousin of the Buddha. Devadatta is said to have joined the sangha along with Ananda, who was possibly his brother, in the 20th year of the Buddha’s ministry.
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Devadatta (T. lhas sbyin ལྷས་སྦྱིན་; C. tipodaduo 提婆達多) was a cousin of Gautama Buddha who became an early disciple, but later turned against the Buddha and became a bitter rival. According to tradition, Devadatta became a disciple of the Buddha at the same time as Ananda and others. Devadatta soon attained mundane ...
Devadatta is the cousin of the Buddha and is said to have been his rival before the Buddha's enlightenment. Devadatta kills an elephant presented to the buddha-to-be and is beaten by the Buddha in an archery contest. Devadatta is also reported to have entered the Buddhist order with other members of the Śākya clan, where he soon achieved ...
Devadatta. At that time the Buddha addressed the bodhisattvas, the heavenly and human beings, and the four kinds of believers, saying: “Immeasurable kalpas in the past, I sought the Lotus Sutra without ever flagging. During those many kalpas, I constantly appeared as the ruler of a kingdom who made a vow to seek unsurpassed enlightenment.
