An Arahant, probably identical with Udena (2). During the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a hermit, with eighty-four thousand others, living in a hermitage near Paduma-pabbata in the Himavā. Having heard the Buddha’s praises from a yakkha, he visited Padumuttara, offered him a lotus flower and spoke verses in praise of him.¹⁹

Footnotes

¹⁰ p.382. ¹¹ p.291. ¹² M.ii.157 ff. ¹³ Vin.i.139. ¹⁴ Bu.v.24; J.i.34.

¹⁵ BuA.111. ¹⁶ Bu.xvii.13; also called Jayasena, BuA.187.

¹⁷ ThagA.i.148. ¹⁸ Ap.i.56. ¹⁹ Ap.ii.362 ff.

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