Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c26.145

v2.c26.145

⁶ Vin. iv. 173; perhaps this is another version of the story found at S. ii. 281. There, Nanda is said to have donned a robe which was pressed on both sides, painted his face, and gone to see the Buddha, carrying a bright bowl. The Buddha chided him, and Nanda thereupon became a forest-dweller and a rag-robeman. Buddhaghosa (SA. ii. 174) says that Nanda dressed himself up in order to evoke some comment from the Buddha—either approval, so that he might dress thus for the remainder of his life, or censure, in which case he would put on rag robes and dwell in the forest.