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  • Kapinaccanā

A locality, probably near Vesāli, where lived the thera Kappitaka, teacher of Upāli (Pv.50).

It was so called because monkeys and men used to dance there (PvA.231).

Kapinaccanā may have been a name for the cemetery near Vesāli where Kappitaka (q.v.) lived (Vin.iv.306).


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