[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.c6.564 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.564 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.564 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.564](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.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 - [Previous: v1.c6.563](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.563) - [Next: v1.c6.565](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.565) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.564](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.564) · Pramāṇa