Deva12
PersonEin Minister von Devagāma, der einst einen hungernden Hund fütterte, dadurch im selben Dorf wiedergeboren wurde, später dem Orden beitrat, eine Hungersnot durch glückliche Fügung überlebte und zum Arahant wurde, um den sich eine Baumgottheit kümmerte.
A minister of Devagāma. He once gave food to a starving dog. He was reborn in the same village, and later entered the Order at Pupphavāsa-vihāra. During the Brāhmanatiya famine a tree deity looked after him for twelve years. Once men looking for food wished to kill him, but he was saved by his luck. He became an Arahant, and the deity looked after him for twelve years more. Ras.ii.13 f.
Deva.– See also Malaya-deva and Mahādeva.
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