(Skt., followers of V
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ts
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putra). A school of early Buddhism. According to tradition V
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ts
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putra was a Mah
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sa
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ghika who claimed to have supernaturally received an
Abhidharmic
text in nine sections from
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riputra
and
R
hula
. This is known as the
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riputra-Abhidharma
. V
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ts
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putra probably lived in the early 3rd cent. BCE in Ko
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ala (E. India) and it seems that the V
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