A Thera of the Mahāvihāra, at whose request the Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī was written.³¹

See also Sona and its compounds.

Footnotes

¹³ He was evidently called Koḷivisa because he was a Koḷiyan, Ap.i.95, 21.

¹⁴ Four inches long on his feet, Ap.i.298, curved “like ear ornaments.”

¹⁵ The Vinaya (Vin.i.179 ff) gives details of Soṇa’s visit to Bimbisāra. The king, being curious to see Soṇa’s feet, sent for him. He and his eighty-thousand companions went to see the Buddha, and there they were greatly impressed by the psychic powers of Sāgata. Soṇa then sought the Buddha alone and joined the Order. After ordination he walked about meditating, his feet bled, and his walking path (caṅkamana) was covered with blood “like a slaughter-house for oxen.” After Soṇa attained Arahantship, the Buddha gave him permission to wear shoes with one lining. Soṇa said he had abandoned eighty cartloads of gold and a retinue of seven elephants. He did not wish, as a monk, to have any luxuries which his colleagues did not share, The Buddha then gave permission to all monks to wear shoes with one lining.

¹⁶ Thag.vss.632. ¹⁷ A.i.24.

¹⁸ ThagA.i.544 f; cf. Ap.i.93 f., where he is called Koḷiyavessa. The ApA. confused his story with that of Kuṭikaṇṇa; see also AA.i.130 f., where the details are different, especially regarding the honour paid by Soṇa to the Pacceka Buddha. Once, on visiting the Pacceka Buddha’s cell, he noticed that the ground outside it was muddy; so he spread on the ground a rug worth one hundred thousand, so that the Pacceka Buddha’s feet might not be soiled.

¹⁹ Ap.i.298. ²⁰ AA.i.130. ²¹ Cf. AA.ii.680. ²² ThagA.i.299.

²³ Dpv.viii.12; Sp.i.68, 69; Mhv.xii.6, 44 ff; for details see Suvaṇṇabhūmi.

²⁴ Mhv.xxxvii.10, 13, 28. ²⁵ Dpv.xxii.70, 71.

²⁶ Thag.vss.193, 194; ThagA.i.316 f. ²⁷ Ap.ii.448 f. ²⁸ S.iii.48 f. ²⁹ S.iv.113.

³⁰ VibhA.439; cf. AA.i.255, where the vihāra is called Pañcala-vihāra, and MA.ii.887, where it is called Paceli-vihāra.

³¹ Knv., p.1.

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