Cātumāsika-Brahmadatta
PersonA king of Bārāṇasī who, observing a tree change from bare to blossoming to withered over three visits, realised the universality of decay and death and became a Pacceka Buddha.
A king of Bārāṇasī. Going to his park in the early summer, he rested under a kovilāra-tree which was thickly covered with leaves. Going again in midsummer, he found it full of blossom. On his third visit, at the end of the season, the tree was bare and withered, and, lying under it, he realised that decay and death are the common lot of all. He thereupon became a Pacceka Buddha. His verse of exhaltation (udāna) is included in the Khaggavisāṇa Sutta. SN.vs.44; SNA.i.90 f; Ap.i.9 (vs.18); ApA.i.141 f.
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