Ajjuna
PersonSohn eines Ratsherrn aus Sāvatthi, der, nachdem er zunächst enttäuscht den Nigaṇṭhas beigetreten war, durch das Doppelwunder des Buddha gewonnen wurde, in den Orden eintrat und die Arahatschaft erlangte.
Son of a councillor of Sāvatthi. In his youth he first joined the Order of the Nigaṇṭhā; being dissatisfied, he was won over by the Buddha’s Twin-miracle and, entering the Order, reached Arahantship (Thag.v.88; ThagA.i.186). He is evidently to be identified with Sālapupphiya Thera of the Apadāna (i.169).
In Vipassī Buddha’s time he was born as a lion and gave the Buddha a flowering branch of a sala-tree.
He was also once a Cakkavattī, named Verocana.
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