Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.1696
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.1696
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v1.c12.1696
It is said that the Elder had been the Nigaṇṭha Mahā-Saccaka in the time of the Buddha, and that the Buddha had preached to him the Mahā-Saccaka Sutta, not because he could understand it then, but because the Buddha knew that it would help him to rise to eminence in this last life as Kāḷa-Buddharakkhita.²