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भद्रवर्गीय (bhadravargIya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भद्र—वर्गीय
m.
pl.
N.
of the first 5 disciples of Gautama Buddha,
Lalit.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
bhadravargīya, m. pl., also written °vargiya, and °vargika, °vargīka
regularly preceded by pañcaka, q.v., or rarely (e.g. LV 〔264.17〕) pañca, as separate adj. (= Pali pañcavaggiyā, or °ikā, with or without bhikkhū), the five first disciples of Buddha (Tib., e.g. on LV 〔245.16〕, lṅa sde bzaṅ po, five good-class)
no corresp. for bhadra seems ever to occur in this group in Pali, where bhaddavaggiyā applies to a very different group, DPPN: °gīya LV 〔245.16〕
〔264.17〕
〔265.3〕
〔404.7〕 etc.
〔407.16〕 etc.
〔416.15〕
Mv 〔ii.241.2〕
〔iii.329.2, 6, 9, 14〕
〔331.1〕
〔335.12〕
〔337.13〕
〔353.14〕
〔415.7〕 (in several of these v.l. °giya, in 〔331.1〕 °gīka, in 〔335.12〕 °gika)
°giya 〔iii.322.20〕 (v.l. °gīya)
〔323.4〕
〔328.20〕
°gika 〔iii.335.8〕 (so, or °gīka, mss.)
〔337.7, 16〕
〔339.3〕
〔353.17〕
〔415.13〕
°gīka 〔iii.337.10〕 (mss., no v.l.)
pañcakānāṃ bhadravargikānāṃ jātakaṃ 〔iii.356.19〕 (colophon). Their names given e.g. in Mv 〔iii.328.20〕, and elsewhere, sometimes without the designation bhadrav°, as SP 〔1.9 f.〕
LV 〔1.6—8〕
Sukh 〔2.2 f.〕
the approved forms seem to be Ājñātakauṇḍinya, Aśvajit, Vāṣpa, Mahānāman (3), and Bhadrika (2), qq.v. for variants and Pali equivalents.