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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe clan to which Ambattha manava belonged. The Kanhayana gotta was probably one of its chief sections, or, perhaps, the family of its original ancestors. In the Buddhas time the clan was evidently considered very aristocratic, at least by its own members, for they looked down upon even the Sakiyans as scorings from their kinsmens feet, though the Sakiyans themselves seem to have laughed at the pretensions of the Ambatthas (See Ambattha manava above). Nor were the Ambatthas brahmins by birth; some of them were farmers and traders and some even sold their daughters for gold. J.iv.363; they were called brahmins by courtesy voharavasena (ibid., 366).
According to the Manavadhammasastra, they were not sprung from Ksatriya father and a slave (presumably Sudra) mother, as given in the Ambattha Sutta, but from a brahmin father and a Vaisya mother.
The Ambatthas were of an old stock and were well known. Besides the Ambattha manava mentioned above, another Ambattha, called Sura, is spoken of in the Pitakas (E.g., A.i.26; iii.451).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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