A monk. He was called Kosambivāsī Tissa. He spent the rainy season at Kosambī and, on his departure, his supporter gave him three robes and other offerings; he, however, refused them saying that he had no novice to look after them. The layman immediately gave his son, then seven years old, to be his novice. The boy attained Arahantship in the Tonsure-hall. While on his way to Sāvatthi to see the Buddha, Tissa accidentally blinded the novice by hitting his eye with a fan at dawn. The elder was filled with remorse and, falling at the boy’s feet, asked his pardon. However, the answer was that there was no fault to pardon, the accident was due to saṃsāra. When the matter was reported to the Buddha he said that such was the nature of Arahants. They felt no resentment. At the end of the discourse, Tissa became an Arahant.²⁶