迦旃

([lang id =1028]迦旃延子) Kātyāyana; Mahākātyāyana; Mahākātyāyanīputra; one of the ten noted disciples of Śākyamuni. The foundation work of the Abhidharma philosophy; viz. the <Abhidharma-jñāna-prasthāna-śāstra>, has been attributed to him, but it is by an author of the same name 300 to 500 years later. Other forms are [lang id =1028]迦多桁那; [lang id =1028]迦多桁尼子(or [lang id =1028]迦多演尼子); [lang id =1028]迦底耶夜那; [lang id =1028]迦氈延 ([lang id =1028]尼子). There are others of the same name; e. g. the seventh of the ten non-Buddhist philosophers, perhaps Kakuda Kātyāyana, associated with mathematics, but spoken of as 'a violent adversary of Śākyamuni.' M. W.