SramaRoddeSa
śramaṇoddeśa , m. (= Pali samaṇuddesa, here seems only applied to novices, sāmaṇera), a subordinate of a (Buddhist) monk , but not always = śrāmaṇera : Ṛddhilamātā upāsikā śramaṇoddeśikā (see next) Cundaḥ °deśaḥ (see Cunda , who is called in Divy a śrāmaṇeraka of Śāriputra) Divy 160.6 ; in Av ii.69.4 ff. (where mss. regularly śravaṇ° for śramaṇ°, em. Speyer ) applied to Sumanas (4), who had been given by his father as attendant to Aniruddha; but at the time when this ep. is applied to him he had not only been initiated but become an arhant, while still acting in the rôle of attendant to Aniruddha, who calls him putraka, ii.69.3 .