Cūḷa-Kāḷa2
PersonA previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña, a householder of Haṃsavatī who repeatedly offered the Buddha Vipassī the first fruits of a single rice crop and thereby became the first to attain realisation under Gotama Buddha’s first discourse.
A previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña. He was a householder of Haṃsavatī, in the time of Vipassī Buddha. One day going to the rice-field, he hulled a kernel of rice, ate it and found it unusually sweet. He thereupon obtained his share of the field from his brother Mahā-Kāḷa, and gave to the Buddha and the monks the first-fruits of a single crop, nine times, at nine different stages (DhA.i.82). He thus became the first to gain any attainment when Gotama Buddha taught his first discourse (DhA.i.8 ff).
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