Piṅgiya untranslated

Piṅgiya 01. Chaplain to Brahmadatta, king of Benares. He was a former birth of Devadatta (Ja.iii.161). His story is given in the Dhonasākhajātaka (Ja 353) (q.v.).

Piṅgiya 02. Called Piṅgiya māṇava, nephew and pupil of Bāvarī. At the time that he visited the Buddha with the other disciples he was 120 years old and very feeble. At the end of his discussion with the Buddha, as recorded in the Piṅgiyasutta (Snp. vs. 1120-23), because of his feebleness, he failed to reach any attainment. Thereupon he praised the Buddha and begged of him to go on. The Buddha preached to him further, and he became an Anāgāmī, failing, however, to attain Arahant-ship because his mind wandered to his maternal uncle, Bāvarī. His one thousand pupils, however, became Arahants. Later, with the Buddha’s leave, he visited Bāvarī and told him the glad tidings, describing the Buddha’s glory (Snp.vs.1131-45). At the end of his statement, the Buddha, seeing that the minds of both of them were mature, sent forth a ray of light from Sāvatthī and, appearing before them, preached to them. Thereupon Bāvarī became an Anāgāmī and Piṅgiya an Arahant (Snp­a.ii.603ff).

Piṅgiya was called māṇava, even at the age of 120! (Snp­a.ii.413).

Piṅgiya 03. One of the seven anāgamīs born in the Avihā world, in the company of Ghaṭīkāra (SN.i.35, 60). He is described as a bhikkhu, and is therefore probably identical with Piṅgiya (2). The story of the latter having attained Arahant-ship must, in that case, have been a later legend. It is also possible that Piṅgiya is a variant reading for Piṅgiyānī.

Piṅgiya 04. A dog, mentioned in the Pūtimaṁsajātaka. Ja.iii.535.