[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.c6.569 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.569 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.569 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.569](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.569) Ajātasattu helped Devadatta in several of the latter's attempts to kill the Buddha.⁷ Later he was filled with remorse for these past misdeeds as he confesses himself⁸; but evidently, for very shame, he refrained from visiting the Buddha till he was won over by the persuasions of his physician Jīvaka Komārabhacca. And when in the end he did go to the Buddha, it was in great fear and trembling; so nervous was he that he imagined conspirators in the very silence surrounding the Buddha where he dwelt in the monsatery, in Jīvaka’s Mango grove at Rājagaha.⁹ It was on the occasion of this visit that the Sāmaññaphala Sutta was preached. The king admits that he had been to various teachers before, but had failed to find satisfaction in their teachings. It is noteworthy that the Buddha greets the king cordially on his arrival and makes no mention whatever of the king’s impiety. Instead, when Ajātasattu expresses his repentance at the end of the discourse, the Buddha accepts his confession and lets him off almost too lightly. But after the king had departed the Buddha tells the monks how the king’s misdeeds had wrought his undoing both in this world and the next, for if he had not been guilty of them, the Eye of Truth (Sotāpattimagga, says the Commentary) would have been opened for him on the occasion of this sermon.¹⁰ Henceforth the king became a loyal adherent of the Buddha’s faith, though, as far as we know, he never waited again either upon the Buddha or upon any member of the Order for the discussion of ethical matters.¹¹ He was so full of love and respect for the Buddha that when he heard of Upaka Maṇḍikaputta having spoken rather impolitely to the Buddha, he at once flew into a rage.¹² - [Previous: v1.c6.568](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.568) - [Next: v1.c6.570](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.570) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.569](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.569) · Pramāṇa