Sopāka¹

A monk whose Theragāthā verse says one should love all beings, like a woman loves her only child….

man of a very low caste, an outcast Snp.137. See also sapāka.

= sapāka; śva + pāka

…of his friend, the Thera Sopāka, he entered the Order and attained arahantship.

In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a brahmin, named…

…lit. the Upasampadā by way of inh., a particular form of ordination conferred on Sumana Sopāka, both novices seven yrs. old…

“dog-cooker,” an outcast or Caṇḍāla Ja.iv.380. Cp. sopāka.

san + pāka; cp. Sk. śvapāka

name of a science (“the interpretation of omens to be drawn from dogs”) Mil.178.

sā = śvan, dog; + cakka; cp. sopāka & suva