Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.564

v1.c6.564

Ajātasattu grew up to a noble and handsome youth. **Devadatta** was, at this time, looking for ways and means of taking revenge on the Buddha, and seeing in the prince a very desirable weapon, he exerted all his strength to win him to his side. Ajātasattu was greatly impressed by Devadatta's powers of *iddhi* and became his devoted follower.⁴ He built for him a monastery at Gayāsīsa and waited upon him morning and evening carrying food for him, sometimes as much as five hundred cartloads in five hundred cooking pans.⁵