Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c24.361
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c24.361
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Dhammasavaṇiya.—A thera who attained arahantship at the age of seven, having heard the Buddha preach the stanza beginning with “anicca vata saṅkhārā.” In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a Jaṭila who, while flying through the air, was forced to descend where the Buddha sat preaching, it being impossible to fly over him. He was afterwards born in Tāvatiṃsa.¹