Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.2231

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**Pulinathūpiya Thera.**—An arahant. Once, in the past, he was a Jaṭila named Nāraḍa, with fourteen thousand followers, living near the rock called Samaṅga. He erected, on the bank of the Amarīkā, a thūpa of sand as an object of worship for himself. In his last birth he was of parents who were devout followers of the Buddha and worshipped at a shrine erected in the Buddha's name. When the boy was seven years old he saw the shrine and, recalling his past, became an arahant.¹ He is perhaps to be identified with **Vasabha Thera** (*q.v.*).²