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Bandhura
Person
  • The one-eyed chief groom of the king of Bārāṇasī’s elephant house, dismissed from service after repeatedly and carelessly destroying a crow’s nest above the stable doorway.

Bandhura2
Person
  • A merchant’s son of Sīlavatī who, after attaining Arahantship, returned home to convert the king and receive a monastery built in his honour, which he then gave to the Saṅgha before departing without attachment to possessions.

Thag 1.103

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