Devala4
PersonEin Asket im Himavā, der vor der Geburt des Buddha Padumuttara einen Schrein errichtete und Opfergaben darbrachte in Erwartung von dessen Kommen, später in der Brahma-Welt wiedergeboren als frühere Existenz des Ältesten 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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