Dhammika Thera is driven out by the lay disciples of seven settlements in succession, because he insulted and reviled visiting monks. He, thereupon, seeks the Buddha at Gijjhakūṭa and reports the matter to him. The Buddha relates to him a story of the past connected with the observance of Rukkha-dhamma (see Suppatiṭṭhita), and exhorts him to observe the Dhamma of a recluse. He also tells Dhammika of various teachers of the past whose disciples, by accepting their teaching, were born in happy states. A.iii.366 ff; the teachers are Sunetta, Mūgapakkha, Araṇemi, Kuddālaka, and Jotipāla. These names occur in the Jātaka stories; see for details. Perhaps the stories were pre-Buddhistic. Compare the list with that at A.iv.135, where the name of Araka is added.