Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.1460

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1. Kāma Sutta.—The first of the Aṭṭhakavagga of the Sutta Nipāta. The Buddha, seeing a brahmin felling trees on the banks of the Aciravatī and preparing a field for corn, spoke to him. He spoke again to the brahmin on several other occasions, when the latter was engaged in various operations in the field. The brahmin, pleased by the Buddha's courtesy, resolved to invite him to a meal when the harvest should be gathered. But the day before the reaping of the corn heavy rains fell, the river was flooded and the corn all washed away. The Buddha had foreseen that this would happen and visited the brahmin to console him. It was on this last occasion that this sutta was preached. At the end of the sermon the brahmin became a sotāpanna.¹ In the Kāmanita Jātaka he is referred to as Kāmanita-brāhmaṇa.²