Kumārapañha untranslated

Kumārapañha. The fourth chapter of the Khuddakapāṭha (Khp.p.2).

It consists of ten questions which, according to the Commentaries (Khp-a.76; Thag­a.i.479), the Buddha asked the young Sopāka, then an Arahant though only seven years old, with the idea of giving him the upasampadā-ordination.

The boy-Arahant answered the questions and this conversation formed his ordination (see also Thag.v.485; Ap.i.64f).

These questions were elaborated by the nun of Kajaṅgalā (see AN.v.54ff). (q.v.).

The Majjhima Commentary (MN­a.ii.636) on the Ambalaṭṭhika Rāhulovādasutta seems to indicate a set of questions called Kumārapañha in connection with Rāhula when he was seven years old.

See also SN­a.iii.99, where Buddhaghosa says that Cittagahapati, in a discussion with Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta, referred to the Kumārapañha.