Nāgasamāla2
PersonUn arahant que l’Apadāna distingue du précédent Nāgasamāla, dont il est dit qu’il offrit une fleur au sanctuaire du Bouddha Sikhī dans une vie antérieure et qui, selon le commentaire, servit lui aussi un temps d’assistant personnel du Bouddha.
An Arahant. The Apadāna (Ap.i.119) distinguishes him from the above, whom it calls Ekachattiya. Thirty-one world-cycles ago he placed a pātali flower on the thūpa of Sikhī Buddha. Fifteen world-cycles ago he was a king named Bhūmiya.
The Apadāna Commentary says, however, that this thera was the personal attendant (pacchāsamaṇa = monk who walks behind) of the Buddha for some time and that he was called Nāgasamāla because his body was tender as nāga-buds.
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