[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c14.984 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.984 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c14.984 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c14.984](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.984) There is a more or less continuous account of the last year of the Buddha’s life. This is contained in three suttas: the Mahāparinibbāna, the Mahāsudassana and the Janavasabha. These are not separate discourses but are intimately connected with each other. The only event prior to the incidents recounted in these suttas, which can be fixed with any certainty, is the death of the Buddha’s pious patron and supporter, Bimbisāra, which took place eight years before the Buddha’s Parinibbāna.⁵³ It was at this time that Devadatta tried to obtain for himself a post of supremacy in the Order, and, failing in this effort, became the open enemy of the Buddha.⁵⁴ Enlisting the support of Ajātasattu, he tried in many ways to kill the Buddha. Royal archers were bribed to shoot the Buddha, but they were won over by his personality and confessed their intentions. Then Devadatta hurled a great rock down Gijjhakūṭa on to the Buddha as he was walking in the shade of the hill; the hurtling rock was stopped by two peaks, but splinters struck the Buddha’s foot and caused blood to flow; he suffered great pain and had to be taken to the Maddakucchi garden, where his injuries were dressed by the physician Jīvaka.⁵⁵ The monks wished to provide a guard, but the Buddha reminded them that no man had the power to deprive a Tathāgata of his life. - [Previous: v1.c14.983](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.983) - [Next: v1.c14.985](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.985) - [Up: v1.c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.984](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.984) · Pramāṇa