<b> <c c="#a00149">Acelakassapa</c> </b> (1) Acela Kassapa<br>A naked ascetic. He visited the Buddha at Ujuññā in the Kaṇṇa-katthala deer-park and asked him if it were true that he disparaged all penance and reviled ascetics. Their conversation is recorded in the Kassapa-Sīhanāda Sutta. <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.161ff.</c> After the usual four months’ probation, he joined the Order and in due course became an arahant. <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.177</c> <br>In the Majjhima Nikāya <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.iii.124ff.</c> we are told that he was an old friend of Bakkula Thera, and that after a conversation with him. obtained his ordination under him.<br>The Kassapa mentioned in the Acela Sutta <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.ii.18f.</c> is probably the same person, though the stories of their conversions are different.<br> <br> <b> <c c="#a00149">Acelakassapa</c> </b> (2) Acela Kassapa<br>An old family friend of Cittagapahati. Having been for thirty years a paribbājaka, he admits to Citta that he had thereby obtained no particular excellence of knowledge. Citta tells him of his own attainments and Kassapa expresses a desire to enter the Order. He is duly ordained, and shortly afterwards becomes an arahant. <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.iv.300ff.</c> <br> <br> </deftext>
(masc, masc, comp) name of a naked ascetic [lit.] naked Kassapa Construction: acela + kassapa