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  • An arahant who, ninety-four world-cycles ago, kept a lamp burning all night by the relic-shrine of Siddhattha Buddha, thereafter enjoying long ages in heaven and repeated rebirths as king before entering the Order at four and attaining Arahantship within a fortnight.

  • An arahant who had once lit a lamp before Padumuttara Buddha’s Bodhi tree and, sixteen thousand world-cycles ago, was four times a king under the name Candābha.

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