Rājadatta
PersonMột vị A-la-hán xuất thân từ gia đình trưởng đoàn lữ hành ở Sāvatthi, sau khi tiêu tán hết gia sản liền xuất gia, suýt phát điên khi thấy xác một kỹ nữ bị sát hại tan nát, nhưng rồi vượt qua để chứng đắc thiền định và quả vị A-la-hán
An Arahant. He belonged to a caravan leader’s family of Sāvatthi, and was so called because he was born through the favour of Vessavaṇa. When he came of age he took a caravan of five hundred carts to Rājagaha. Then, having squandered all his money, he went to Veḷuvana, and, after hearing the Buddha teach, entered the Order and lived in a charnel field. While wandering about, he saw the mangled body of a murdered courtesan and only with a great effort saved himself from distraction of mind. Later, he gained absorption (jhāna) and won Arahantship.
Fourteen world-cycles ago he had seen a Pacceka Buddha at the foot of a tree and had given him an ambātaka (mango?) fruit (Thag. vss. 315-19; ThagA.i.402 f).
He is probably identical with Ambātaka Thera. Ap.i.394.
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