Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.979

v1.c14.979

The Retreat of this year and also that of the nineteenth are spent at Cālikapabbata. In the twentieth year takes place the miraculous conversion of the robber Aṅgulimāla. He becomes an arahant and dies shortly after. It is in the same year that Ānanda is appointed permanent attendant on the Buddha, a position which he holds to the end of the Buddha’s life, twenty-five years later.⁵⁰ The twentieth Retreat is spent at Rājagaha.