Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c10.68

v1.c10.68

He listened to the sermon, which dealt with impermanence, and, returning to his hermitage, meditated on this topic. Later he was born in Tāvatiṃsa. Fifty-one times he reigned as king of heaven for thirty thousand kappas and twenty-one times he was king of men. In this last life he heard a monk in his father's house preaching a sermon in reference to the impermanence of all component things. At the end of the sermon he remembered his former attainments and, seated there, reached arahantship. He was only seven years old at the time.¹