Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.53

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Akkosaka-Bhāradvāja.—A brahmin of Rājagaha who—incensed that his eldest brother, a member of the Bhāradvāja clan and, probably its head,¹ had been converted by the Buddha—visits the Buddha and insults him. Later he is himself converted and becomes an arahant.² The soubriquet of Akkosaka was given him by the Saṅgītikārā to distinguish him as the author of a lampoon of 500 verses against the Buddha.³ Asurindaka-Bhāradvāja was his younger brother⁴; he had two others, Sundarī Bhāradvāja and Bilaṅgika-Bhāradvāja, who also became converts and, later, arahants.⁵