Mahāparivāra
PersonUn Arahant qui, chef des yakkhas du temps du Bouddha Vipassī, offrit son vêtement supérieur en hommage et fit trembler la terre par la force de son aspiration, et qui fut roi seize fois sous le nom de Vāhana il y a quinze cycles cosmiques.
An Arahant. In the time of Vipassī Buddha he was a yakkha chief and, seeing the Buddha enter Bandhumatī with a large following of monks, offered his upper garment and worshipped him. The earth trembled with the force of his wish. Fifteen world-cycles ago he was king sixteen times under the name of Vāhana (Ap.i.146 f). He is probably identical with Pakkha Thera. ThagA.i.144 f.
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