Devala4
PersonAn ascetic in the Himavā who, before the Buddha Padumuttara’s birth, built a shrine and made offerings in anticipation of his coming, later reborn in the Brahma world as a previous existence of the elder Sirimatthera.
An ascetic in Himavā. He lived before the time of Padumuttara Buddha, who was yet in Tusita, but realising in his mind the qualities of previous Buddhas, Devala built a cetiya on the bank of a river and made offerings to it in the name of the Buddha. Later, he was born in the Brahma-world. He was a previous birth of Sirimatthera (Pulinuppādaka).
ThagA.i.280; Ap.ii.426.
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