Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.52

v1.c7.52

In reply to a question of **Pasenadi**, the Buddha revealed why Āgantuka had been a miser: in a past birth, while going to the king's court, he had met the Pacceka Buddha **Tagarasikhī** begging for alms and had ordered his servant to give the food prepared for himself (Āgantuka) to the Pacceka Buddha. On his way back, seeing the Pacceka Buddha returning with the excellent food from the merchant's house in his alms-bowl, he wished he had distributed it among his own servants instead, as they would have done some work in return.¹