Sumana7
PersonEin Brahmane aus Kosala, der von seinem Onkel, einem Arahant, ordiniert wurde, rasch die vier Vertiefungen und höheren Erkenntnisse meisterte und die Arahantschaft erlangte, nachdem er in einem früheren Leben einem kranken Pacceka-Buddha eine Heilfrucht dargebracht hatte.
He belonged to a brahmin family of Kosala. His mother’s brother was an Arahant, and ordained him as soon as he grew up. Sumana soon acquired the four absorptions (jhāna) and fivefold higher knowledge (abhiññā) and, in due course, attained Arahantship.
Ninety-five world-cycles ago he gave a harītaka-fruit to a Pacceka Buddha who was ill (Thag.vss.330-4; ThagA.i.411 f). He is evidently identical with Harītakadāyaka of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.394; cf. Avadānas ii. 67-70.
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