[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) › v2.c30 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c30: Bh Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c30 - **Language:** English ### Bh ### [v2.c30.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.1) Bhagandha-Hatthaka Sutta.—See Bhadragandha-Hatthaka Sutta. ### [v2.c30.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.2) Bhagalavatī.—A place in Uttarakuru where the Yakkhas assemble. The Dīgha Nikāya¹ speaks of it as a hall (\*sabhā\*), while the Sutta Nipāta Commentary² says it is a mountain in Himavā where the devas assemble every month for eight days in order to settle disputes. The Yakkha leaders also attend these assemblies. The Sumaṅgalavilāsinī,³ however, says that it is a jewelled pavilion (\*ratanamaṇḍapa\*) twelve leagues in extent, on the banks of the Dharaṇi Lake. It is surrounded by a creeper named Bhagalavatī, hence, probably, its name. ### [v2.c30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.3) ¹ D. iii. 201. ### [v2.c30.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.4) ² SNA. i. 197. ### [v2.c30.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.5) ³ DA. iii. 967. ### [v2.c30.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.6) 1. Bhaginī Sutta.—It would not be easy to find a person who has not been one's sister during \*saṃsāra\*.¹ ### [v2.c30.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.7) ¹ S. ii. 189. ### [v2.c30.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.8) 2. Bhaginī Sutta.—There are men who would not lie, even for a sister's sake.¹ ### [v2.c30.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.9) ¹ S. ii. 243. ### [v2.c30.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.10) Bhagīrathī, Bhagīrasī.—See Bhāgirathī. ### [v2.c30.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.11) Bhagirasa.—A king of old, mentioned as having held great sacrifices; he could not, however, advance beyond the peta-world.¹ 1. Bhagu.—A famous sage (\*isi\*) of old.¹ He was one of the teachers who composed runes combined with the teachings of Kassapa Buddha.² ### [v2.c30.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.12) ¹ J. vi. 99. ### [v2.c30.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.13) ¹ Vin. i. 245; D. i. 104, 238, 243; M. ii. 169, 200; A. iii. 224; iv. 61. ### [v2.c30.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.14) ² DA. i. 273, etc. ### [v2.c30.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.15) 2. Bhagu Thera.—He was born in a Sākyan family, and having left the world with his clansmen Anuruddha and Kimbila, he dwelt in the village of Bālakaloṇa. One day, having left his cell in order to drive away his drowsiness, he fell as he was stepping on to the terrace, and, urged thereby to further effort, he accomplished self-mastery and won arahantship. Later, when he was living in the bliss of fruition, the Buddha came to congratulate him on his solitude.¹ It is said² that, on this occasion, the Buddha, after his meal, preached to Bhagu for a whole day and a whole night. The next day Bhagu accompanied the Buddha on his alms-round, and turned back when the Buddha proceeded to Pācinavamsa-migadāya to see Anuruddha and the others. ### [v2.c30.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.16) ¹ Thag., vss. 271-4; ThagA. i. 380 f.; cf. M. iii. 155; Vin. i. 350, ii. 182; DhA. i. 56, 133; J. i. 140, iii. 489; Mil. 107. ### [v2.c30.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.17) ² SA. ii. 222; this sermon is referred to as the Kilesiya Sutta (\*q.v.\*). ### [v2.c30.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.18) In the time of Padumuttara Buddha, Bhagu was a householder, and, after the Buddha's death, offered flowers to his relics. As a result he was born among the Nimmānarati gods.³ ### [v2.c30.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.19) ³ ThagA. i. 380. ### [v2.c30.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.20) He is probably identical with Jātipupphiya of the Apadāna.⁴ ### [v2.c30.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.21) ⁴ Ap. ii. 405 f. ### [v2.c30.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.22) A monk named Bhagu is mentioned⁵ as staying with Jātipupphiya at the Kukkuṭārāma in Pāṭaliputta, but he is probably a different person. ### [v2.c30.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.23) ⁵ Vin. i. 300. ### [v2.c30.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.24) 1. Bhaggava.—A teacher to whom the Buddha went after leaving Rājagaha, and before seeking Āḷāra and Uddaka.¹ ### [v2.c30.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.25) ¹ ThigA., p. 2. ### [v2.c30.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.26) 2. Bhaggava.—Father of Aṅgulimāla and chaplain of the king of Kosala. Bhaggava was a brahmin.¹ ### [v2.c30.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.27) ¹ ThagA. ii. 57. ### [v2.c30.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.28) 3. Bhaggava.—A potter in Rājagaha in whose dwelling the Buddha met and conversed with Pukkusāti.¹ Bhaggava seems to have been a generic name for all potters, perhaps a special form of address used towards members of the \*kumbhakāra\* “caste.” Thus we find in the books several instances of potters being addressed as “Bhaggava.”² In the Saṃyutta Nikāya³ the Buddha addresses Ghaṭikāra Brahmā as “Bhaggava”; he had been a potter of Vehaliṅga in his previous birth and the name “Ghaṭikāra” itself means “jar-maker.” The Commentaries give no explanation of the word; perhaps the potters claimed their descent from Bhṛgu. Bhaggava is sometimes given as an example of a gotta.⁴ See also Bhaggavagotta. ### [v2.c30.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.29) ¹ M. iii. 237. ### [v2.c30.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.30) ² E.g., DhA. i. 33; J. ii. 80, iii. 382. At J. iii. 382 the potter's wife is addressed as “Bhaggavī.” ### [v2.c30.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.31) ³ S. i. 36, 60. ### [v2.c30.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.32) ⁴ E.g., Sp. i. 160 (with Gotama). ### [v2.c30.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.33) Bhaggavagotta.—A clothed Wanderer (channaparibbājaka),¹ who lived in a pleasaunce near Anupiyā. He was a friend of Sunakkhatta (q.v.). The Buddha once visited him, and their conversation is recorded in the Pāṭika Sutta (q.v.).² He was evidently so called because he belonged to the gotta named Bhaggava (? potters). ### [v2.c30.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.34) ¹ DA. iii. 816. ### [v2.c30.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.35) ² D. iii. 1 ff. ### [v2.c30.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.36) Bhaggavī.—See Bhaggava (3). ### [v2.c30.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.37) Bhaggā.—The name of a tribe and a country, the capital of which was Sumsumāragiri (q.v.). The Buddha went there several times in the course of his wanderings¹ and three rules for the monks were laid down there.² Bodhirājakumāra (q.v. 1), son of Udena of Kosambi, lived there, apparently as his father's viceroy, in which case the Bhaggā were subject to Kosambi.³ The Bhagga country lay between Vesāli and Sāvatthi. ### [v2.c30.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.38) ¹ E.g., A. ii. 61, iv. 85, etc.; Vin. ii. 127; iv. 115, 198. ### [v2.c30.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.39) ² Vin. v. 145. ### [v2.c30.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.40) ³ The C.H.I. (i. 175) says that the Bhaggā were members of the Vajjian confederacy. ### [v2.c30.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.41) It was while sojourning in the Bhagga-country that Moggallāna was attacked by Māra entering into his stomach,⁴ and it was there that he preached the Anumāna Sutta.⁵ Sirimaṇḍa and the parents of Nakula were inhabitants of the Bhagga-country, and Sigālapitā⁶ went there in order to meditate; there he became an arahant. ### [v2.c30.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.42) ⁴ M. i. 332. ### [v2.c30.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.43) ⁵ Ibid., 95. ### [v2.c30.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.44) ⁶ ThagA. i. 70. ### [v2.c30.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.45) In the Apadāna⁷ the Bhaggā are mentioned with the Kārusā. ### [v2.c30.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.46) ⁷ Ap. ii. 359. ### [v2.c30.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.47) Bhañña.—The word occurs in the compound Ukkalā(Okkalā)-Vassa-Bhañña,¹ a group described as ahetuvādā, akiriyavādā, natthikavādā, but who, nevertheless, agreed that the khandhas might be divided into past, present and future and who accepted the teaching of the Great Forty (see Mahācattārīsaka Sutta). They also accepted non-covetousness, non-malice, right mindfulness and right concentration as worthy. The Commentaries² explain that Vassa and Bhañña were two people (dve janā) (? tribes). ### [v2.c30.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.48) ¹ S. iii. 73; M. iii. 78; A. ii. 31. ### [v2.c30.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.49) ² AA. ii. 497; MA. ii. 894; SA. (ii. 201) says, dve pi te mūladitṭhigatikā. ### [v2.c30.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.50) Bhaṇḍa, Bhaṇḍu Thera.—A colleague of Ānanda whom Kassapa reported to the Buddha at Veḷuvana for disputing with Abhiñjaka, colleague of Anuruddha. The Buddha sent for the disputants and rebuked them for their contentiousness. They confessed their fault and were pardoned.¹ ### [v2.c30.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.51) ¹ S. ii. 204 f. ### [v2.c30.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.52) Bhaṇḍakucchi.—One of the gate-keepers (dovārikā) of Maṇḍavya, who were ordered to cast Mātaṅga out.¹ ### [v2.c30.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.53) ¹ J. iv. 382. ### [v2.c30.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.54) Bhaṇḍagāma.—A Vajjian village between Vesālī and Hatthigāma and near the former. The Buddha visited it during his last tour, and while there he talked to the monks on four conditions which lead to Nibbāna: righteousness, earnest thought, wisdom, and freedom.¹ ### [v2.c30.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.55) ¹ D. ii. 123; A. ii. 1 ff. ### [v2.c30.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.56) Bhaṇḍagāma Vagga.—The first chapter of the Catukka Nipāta of the Aṅguttara Nikāya.¹ ### [v2.c30.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.57) ¹ A. ii. 1-12. ### [v2.c30.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.58) 1. Bhaṇḍana Sutta.—The Buddha says it is unpleasant for him even to think of a place where monks are given to dispute, but far worse to go to it. Strife is due to the abandonment of dispassionate, benevolent and harmless thinking. Monks who dwell in harmony cultivate these things.¹ ### [v2.c30.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.59) ¹ A. i. 275 f. ### [v2.c30.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.60) 2. Bhaṇḍana Sutta.—Five disadvantages which come to those who encourage strife and disputes.¹ ### [v2.c30.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.61) ¹ A. iii. 252. ### [v2.c30.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.62) 3. Bhaṇḍana Sutta.—The Buddha rebukes some monks at Jetavana who were engaged in disputation and tells them to reflect on ten things which conduce to kindness, peace and concord.¹ ### [v2.c30.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.63) ¹ A. v. 88 ff. ### [v2.c30.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.64) ? Bhaṇḍāgāra-amacca.—Given as an example of a handsome person.¹ ### [v2.c30.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.65) ¹ AA. ii. 596. ### [v2.c30.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.66) Bhaṇḍika.—An eminent Thera, well-versed in the four Nikāyas (catunikāyika). He was evidently an esteemed Commentator.¹ ### [v2.c30.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.67) ¹ See, e.g., SA. i. 17. ### [v2.c30.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.68) Bhaṇḍikā-pariveṇa.—A building attached to the Abhayagiri-vihāra and built by Kassapa V.¹ It evidently received its name in honour of the king's mother.² ### [v2.c30.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.69) ¹ Cv. lii. 58. ### [v2.c30.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.70) ² Cv. Trs. i. 167, n. 6. ### [v2.c30.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.71) 1. Bhaṇḍu, Bhaṇḍuka.—An Anāgāmi upāsaka, son of a sister of Devī, and therefore cousin of Mahinda and Saṅghamittā. He accompanied Mahinda to Ceylon, and was ordained, on the day of their arrival, at Ambatthala. He attained arahantship immediately after.¹ ### [v2.c30.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.72) ¹ Mhv. xiii. 16, 18; xiv. 29, 31 f.; Dpv. xii. 26, 39, 62, 63. ### [v2.c30.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.73) 2. Bhaṇḍu.—See Bhaṇḍa. ### [v2.c30.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.74) Bhaṇḍukaṇṇa.—A juggler, who tried to make Mahāpanāda laugh. He made a mango-tree, the Atulamba, grow before the palace door and climbed it with the help of a string. Vessavaṇa's slaves chopped him up and threw the pieces down, and the other jugglers joined the pieces together and poured water over them. Bhaṇḍukaṇṇa then donned upper and under garments of flowers and started dancing again. But he could not make Mahāpanāda laugh.¹ ### [v2.c30.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.75) ¹ J. iv. 324. ### [v2.c30.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.76) Bhatta Sutta.—The five disadvantages which come to a family who wait to eat till the sun has fully risen.¹ ### [v2.c30.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.77) ¹ A. iii. 260. ### [v2.c30.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.78) Bhattabhatika.—A labourer who, in return for three years' work, obtained the privilege of enjoying the luxuries of the Treasurer Gandha (q.v.). When he was ready to eat, however, a Pacceka Buddha appeared and Bhattabhatika gave him all his food. When Gandha discovered this, he made over to Bhattabhatika one-half of all his possessions, and they became firm friends. The king made Bhattabhatika a Treasurer. After death he was born in the deva-worlds, whence he was reborn in Sāvatthi as Sukhakumāra.¹ ### [v2.c30.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.79) ¹ DhA. iii. 87 ff.; for the rest of the story see s.v. Sukha. ### [v2.c30.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.80) Bhattabhuttavaḷāhaka.—The name given to the spot where Duṭṭhagāmaṇi took his meal after crossing the Mahāvālukagaṅgā, in his advance against the Damiḷas.¹ ### [v2.c30.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.81) ¹ MT. 476. ### [v2.c30.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.82) Bhattasūpagāma.—A village in Rohaṇa, where a great battle was fought between the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. and the rebels who wished to take possession of the Buddha’s Tooth Relic and Alms Bowl. Parakkama’s forces were victorious.¹ ### [v2.c30.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.83) ¹ Cv. lxxiv. 135. ### [v2.c30.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.84) Bhattā.—See Hatthā. ### [v2.c30.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.85) 1. Bhadda.—A lay disciple of Nādikā who, the Buddha declared, had destroyed the five orambhāgiyasaṃyojanā and had been born in the highest deva-worlds, thence to pass away entirely.¹ ### [v2.c30.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.86) ¹ D. ii. 92. ### [v2.c30.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.87) 2. Bhadda Thera.—He was born in the family of a seṭṭhi of Sāvatthi. His parents had gone to the Buddha before his conception, and had told him that if they had a child they would give him to the Buddha as his servant. When he was seven years old, they took him, arrayed in his best, to the Buddha, in fulfilment of their promise. The Buddha asked Ānanda to ordain him. This he did and instructed him, and the same night Bhadda became an arahant. The Buddha called to him saying, “Come, Bhadda,” and that was his upasampadā. ### [v2.c30.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.88) In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he had offered hundreds of thousands of robes, etc., to the Buddha and his monks.¹ ### [v2.c30.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.89) ¹ Thag. vss. 473-9; ThagA. i. 474 f. ### [v2.c30.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.90) 3. Bhadda Thera.—Perhaps to be identified with Bhadda (2). He is mentioned as staying at the Kukkuṭārāma in Pāṭaliputta in the company of Ānanda, with whom he discussed the righteous and the unrighteous life¹ and the cultivation of the satipaṭṭhānas.² ### [v2.c30.91](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.91) ¹ S. v. 15 f. ### [v2.c30.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.92) ² Ibid., 171 f. ### [v2.c30.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.93) 4. Bhadda.—One of the two chief disciples of Koṇḍañña Buddha.¹ ### [v2.c30.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.94) ¹ J. i. 30; Bu. iii. 304. ### [v2.c30.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.95) 5. Bhadda.—Commander-in-chief of Sena I. He built the Bhaddasenāpatipariveṇa and endowed it with servants and revenues.¹ ### [v2.c30.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.96) ¹ Cv. l. 82. ### [v2.c30.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.97) Bhaddaka Sutta.—Sāriputta tells the monks that he who delights and engages himself in worldly activities meets with a luckless fate, while he who renounces such meets with a lucky fate.¹ ### [v2.c30.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.98) ¹ A. iii. 293. ### [v2.c30.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.99) Bhaddakaccā, Bhaddākaccā, Bhaddakaccānā, also Subhaddakaccānā. See Rāhulamātā. ### [v2.c30.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.100) \*\*Bhaddakaccānā.\*\*—The youngest of the children of Paṇḍu, the Sākyan. She was so beautiful that seven kings begged to be allowed to marry her. Her father, unable to decide between her suitors, put her in a boat with thirty-two companions and launched the boat upon the Ganges. The boat arrived in the course of the following day at Goṇagāmaka in Ceylon, where the women landed, dressed as nuns. In due course they came to Upatissagāma, where the king, Paṇḍuvāsudeva, warned by soothsayers, awaited their arrival and married Bhaddakaccānā. Later, six of her brothers came to Ceylon and settled in different parts; the brothers were Rāma, Uruvela, Anurādha, Vijita, Dīghāyu and Rohaṇa. The seventh brother, Gāmaṇi, stayed at home. ### [v2.c30.101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.101) Bhaddakaccānā had ten children, the eldest being Abhaya and the youngest Ummādacittā.¹ ### [v2.c30.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.102) ¹ Mhv. viii. 18 ff.; ix. 1 9 f.; Dpv. x. 1 ff. ### [v2.c30.103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.103) \*\*Bhaddakappa.\*\*—A kappa such as the present in which five Buddhas are born.¹ ### [v2.c30.104](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.104) ¹ BuA. 159. ### [v2.c30.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.105) \*\*Bhaddaji Thera.\*\*—The son of a seṭṭhi in Bhaddiya. He was worth eighty crores, and was brought up in luxury like that of the Bodhisatta in his last birth. When Bhaddaji was grown up, the Buddha came to Bhaddiya to seek him out, and stayed at the Jātiyāvana with a large number of monks. Thither Bhaddaji went to hear him preach. He became an arahant, and, with his father's consent, was ordained by the Buddha. Seven weeks later he accompanied the Buddha to Koṭigāma, and, while the Buddha was returning thanks to a pious donor on the way, Bhaddaji retired to the bank of the Ganges outside the village, where he stood wrapt in jhāna, emerging only when the Buddha came by, not having heeded the preceding chief theras. He was blamed for this; but, in order to demonstrate the attainments of Bhaddaji, the Buddha invited him to his own ferry-boat and bade him work a wonder. Bhaddaji thereupon raised from the river bed, fifteen leagues into the air, a golden palace twenty leagues high, in which he had lived as Mahāpanāda (q.v.). On this occasion the Mahāpanāda or Suruci Jātaka was preached. The Mahāvamsa account¹ says that, before raising Mahāpanāda's palace, Bhaddaji rose into the air to the height of seven palmyra-trees, holding the Dussa Thūpa from the Brahma-world in his hand. He then dived into the Ganges and returned with the palace. The brahmin Nanduttara, whose hospitality the Buddha and his monks had accepted, saw this miracle of Bhaddaji, and himself wished for similar power by which he might procure relics in the possession of others. He was reborn as the novice Soṇuttara (q.v.), who obtained the relics for the thūpas of Ceylon. ### [v2.c30.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.106) ¹ xxxi. 37 ff. ### [v2.c30.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.107) In the time of Padumuttara Buddha, Bhaddaji was a brahmin ascetic who, seeing the Buddha travelling through the air, offered him honey, lotus-stalks, etc. Soon after he was struck by lightning and reborn in Tusita. In the time of Vipassī Buddha he was a very rich seṭṭhi and fed sixty-eight thousand monks, to each of whom he gave three robes. Later, he ministered to five hundred Pacceka Buddhas. In a subsequent birth his son was a Pacceka Buddha, and he looked after him and built a cetiya over his remains after his death.² ### [v2.c30.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.108) ² Thag. vs. 163 f.; ThagA. i. 285 ff.; also J. ii. 331 ff., where the details vary slightly; J. iv. 325; also MT. 560 f. ### [v2.c30.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.109) Bhaddaji is identified with Sumana (q.v.) of the Mahānārada-Kassapa Jātaka.³ ### [v2.c30.110](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.110) ³ J. vi. 255. ### [v2.c30.111](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.111) He is probably identical with Bhisadāyaka of the Apadāna.⁴ Bhaddaji is mentioned among those who handed down the Abhidhamma to the Third Council.⁵ See also Bhaddaji Sutta. ### [v2.c30.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.112) ⁴ Ap. ii. 420 f. ### [v2.c30.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.113) ⁵ DhSA. 32. ### [v2.c30.114](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.114) Bhaddaji Sutta.—A discussion between Bhaddaji and Ānanda at the Ghositārāma. In answer to Ānanda's questions, Bhaddaji says that Brahmā is the best of sights; the best of sounds is that of Radiant Devas shouting “Joy, joy,” etc. Ānanda says that such is the talk of puthujjanas. The best sight, in his view, is that of the destruction of the āsavas; the best sound that of their destruction, etc.¹ ### [v2.c30.115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.115) ¹ A. iii. 202 f. ### [v2.c30.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.116) Bhaddanahānakottha.—A bathing-place in Pulatthipura, built by Parakkamabāhu I.¹ ### [v2.c30.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.117) ¹ Cv. lxxviii. 45. ### [v2.c30.118](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.118) Bhaddayānikā.—An offshoot of the Vajjiputtaka heretics.¹ Their doctrines resembled those of the Dhammuttariyas; In birth is ignorance and in the arresting of birth is the arresting of ignorance.² They also held the view that the corruptions were put away by slices.³ ### [v2.c30.119](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.119) ¹ Mhv. v. 7; Dpv. v. 46. ### [v2.c30.120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.120) ² Rockhill, op. cit., 194. ### [v2.c30.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.121) ³ Mrs. Rhys Davids, Points of Controversy, p. 130. ### [v2.c30.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.122) Bhaddavaggiyā.—A group of thirty young men, converted by the Buddha. They had gone picnicing with their wives in a forest-glade between Bārāṇasī and Uruvelā. One of them had no wife, and for him they found a courtezan; but she awaited the opportunity and ran away with their goods. While seeking for her, they saw the Buddha and enquired if he had seen a woman. But he answered, should they not rather seek the " self " than a woman. They all agreed thereto, and he preached to them. At the end of the sermon they realized the Truth and were ordained.¹ Their conversion was one of the subjects sculptured in the Relic Chamber of the Mahā Thūpa.² ### [v2.c30.123](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.123) ¹ Vin. i. 23 f.; DhA. ii. 33 f. ### [v2.c30.124](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.124) ² Mhv. xxx. 79. ### [v2.c30.125](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.125) \*\*Bhaddavatikā.\*\*—A market-town near Kosambī. The Buddha went there and was warned by cowherds and others not to approach Ambatittha as a fierce Nāga dwelt there. Sāgata Thera, hearing this, went to Ambatittha and subdued the Nāga, afterwards rejoining the Buddha at Bhaddavatikā.¹ The town is probably identical with Bhaddavatī (q.v.), and was in the Cetiya Country.² ### [v2.c30.126](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.126) ¹ Vin. iv. 108 f.; J. i. 360 f. ### [v2.c30.127](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.127) ² Vin. iv. 108. ### [v2.c30.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.128) \*\*Bhaddavatiya.\*\*—Father of Sāmāvatī; he was a seṭṭhi of Bhaddavatī. He formed a close friendship with Ghosita-seṭṭhi of Kosambī, through the medium of traders and, when Bhaddavatī was attacked by plague, he left with his wife and daughter to visit Ghosita-seṭṭhi. But he died of starvation outside the city before he could reach him.¹ ### [v2.c30.129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.129) ¹ DhA. i. 187 f. ### [v2.c30.130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.130) 1. \*\*Bhaddavatī.\*\*—A city, the residence of Bhaddavatiya-seṭṭhi, father of Sāmāvatī. Trade was carried on between Kosambī and Bhaddavatī.¹ See also Bhaddavatikā. ### [v2.c30.131](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.131) ¹ DhA. i. 187. ### [v2.c30.132](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.132) 2. \*\*Bhaddavatī, Bhaddavatikā.\*\*—A female elephant belonging to King Udena. She had belonged originally to Caṇḍappajjota. She could travel fifteen leagues in a day.¹ Udena made use of her in his elopement with Vāsuladattā.² At first the king paid her great honour, declaring that his life, queen and kingdom were all due to her; her stall was smeared with perfumed earth and hung with coloured hangings, a lamp burned perfumed oil and a dish of incense was set on one side. She stood on a coloured carpet and ate royal food of many flavours. But when she grew old she was neglected and became destitute. One day she saw the Buddha entering the city for alms, fell at his feet, and complained of the king's neglect. The Buddha reported the matter to the notice of Udena, and all former honours were restored to Bhaddavatī. This incident led to the preaching of the Daḷhadhamma Jātaka.³ 3. \*\*Bhaddavatī\*\*.—A princess, sister of Parakkamabāhu I.¹ ### [v2.c30.133](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.133) ¹ DhA. i. 196. ### [v2.c30.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.134) ² Ibid., 198. ### [v2.c30.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.135) ³ J. iii. 384 f. ### [v2.c30.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.136) ¹ Cv. lxvi. 147. ### [v2.c30.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.137) 1. \*\*Bhaddasāla\*\*.—One of the chief disciples of Nārada Buddha.¹ He was a brahmin of Thullakoṭṭhita and, together with his friend Vijitamitta, he went in search of the Lake of Immortality (\*Amatarahada\*). During their travels they met Nārada Buddha and entered the Order under him, later becoming arahants.² ### [v2.c30.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.138) ¹ J. i. 37; Bu. x. 23. ### [v2.c30.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.139) ² BuA. 154. ### [v2.c30.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.140) 2. \*\*Bhaddasāla\*\*.—A dryad; see the Bhaddasāla Jātaka. ### [v2.c30.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.141) 3. \*\*Bhaddasāla Thera\*\*.—An arahant. He accompanied Mahinda to Ceylon.¹ Sirimeghavaṇṇa made an image of him and placed it in a shrine near his palace.² \*v.l.\* Bhaddanāma. ### [v2.c30.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.142) ¹ Mhv. xii. 7; Dpv. xii. 12, 38; Sp. i. 62, 70. ### [v2.c30.143](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.143) ² Cv. xxxvii. 87. ### [v2.c30.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.144) 4. \*\*Bhaddasāla\*\*.—A tree in the Rakkhitavana-saṇḍa in the Pārileyyaka forest where the Buddha stayed during his retirement.¹ ### [v2.c30.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.145) ¹ Ud. iv. 5; Vin. i. 352. ### [v2.c30.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.146) 5. \*\*Bhaddasāla\*\*.—A general of King Nanda; he waged war against Candagutta. In that war took place eighty Corpse Dances, where headless corpses arose and danced in frenzy over the battle-field.¹ ### [v2.c30.147](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.147) ¹ Mil. 292. ### [v2.c30.148](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.148) 6. \*\*Bhaddasāla Thera\*\*.—A monk of Ceylon. Mahāsiva was greatly devoted to him, and built for him the Nagaraṅgana-vihāra to the east of Anurādhapura.¹ ### [v2.c30.149](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.149) ¹ Mhv. xxi. 2. ### [v2.c30.150](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.150) \*\*Bhaddasāla Jātaka\*\* (No. 465).—Brahmadatta, king of Benares, wishing to have a palace built on one column, sent his carpenters to find a suitable tree. They found many such in the forest, but no road by which to transport them. At last they discovered a lordly \*sāla\*-tree in the king's park and made preparations to cut it down. The deity of the tree (\*\*Bhaddasāla\*\* 2), who was the Bodhisatta, was greatly distressed at the prospect of the destruction of his children. He, therefore, visited the king by night and begged him not to have the tree cut down. When the king refused this request, Bhaddasāla asked that the tree should be cut down in pieces, so that in its fall it might not damage its kindred round about. This feeling of Bhaddasāla for his kinsmen touched the king, and he desisted from his purpose of destroying the tree. ### [v2.c30.151](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.151) The story was related in reference to the Buddha’s interference with Viḍūḍabha (q.v.) when he wished to destroy the Sākyans. ### [v2.c30.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.152) Ananda is identified with the king.¹ On this occasion was preached also the Kukkura Jātaka (No. 22), the Kāka Jātaka (No. 140), and the Mahākapi Jātaka (No. 407). ### [v2.c30.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.153) ¹ J. iv. 153-7. ### [v2.c30.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.154) Bhaddasena.—Son of Ekarāja and brother of Candakumāra.¹ He is identified with Moggallāna.² ### [v2.c30.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.155) ¹ J. vi. 134. ### [v2.c30.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.156) ² Ibid., 157. ### [v2.c30.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.157) Bhaddasenāpati-pariveṇa.—A monastic building erected and endowed by Bhadda, general of Sena I.¹ ### [v2.c30.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.158) ¹ Cv. I. 82. ### [v2.c30.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.159) 1. Bhaddā.—One of the two chief women disciples of Revata Buddha.¹ ### [v2.c30.160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.160) ¹ J. i. 35; Bu. vi. 22. ### [v2.c30.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.161) 2. Bhaddā.—One of the chief women patrons of Kassapa Buddha.¹ ### [v2.c30.162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.162) ¹ Bu. xxv. 41. ### [v2.c30.163](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.163) 3. Bhaddā.—Wife of King Muṇḍa. At her death the king placed her body in a vessel of oil and mourned for her until his friend Piyaka took him to Nārada Thera at the Kukkuṭārāma, and there made him realize the folly of mourning.¹ ### [v2.c30.164](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.164) ¹ A. iii. 57 ff. ### [v2.c30.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.165) 4. Bhaddā.—A woman of Kimbila; she was the wife of Rohaka. She became famous in the city as a virtuous woman (bhadditthī) on account of her goodness and was admired even by the gods. One festival day, while her husband was away in Takkasilā on business, she greatly longed to be with him. The spirit of the house conveyed her thither, and from their union a child was born. Her virtue was doubted by her relations, but she convinced them by arresting a flood with an “Act of Truth.” Her husband was also suspicious, but she convinced him by producing a signet ring which he had given her in Takkasilā. Thus she became famous through her virtue. After death she was born in Tāvatiṃsa, where she met the Buddha on his visit there, and at his request related to him her story.¹ ### [v2.c30.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.166) ¹ Vv. ii. 5; VvA. 109 ff. ### [v2.c30.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.167) \*\*Bhaddā-Kaccāna.\*\*—See Bhaddā-Kaccāna. ### [v2.c30.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.168) \*\*Bhaddā Kapilānī Therī.\*\*—The daughter of a Kosiyagotta brahmin¹ of Sāgala, in the Madda country. When the messengers sent by the parents of Pipphali-mānava (Mahā Kassapa, \*q.v.\*) were wandering about seeking for a wife for him to resemble the image they carried with them, they discovered Bhaddā and informed Pipphali’s parents. The parents arranged the marriage without the knowledge of the young people and Bhaddā went to Pipphali’s house. There they lived together, but, by mutual consent, the marriage was never consummated. It was said that she brought with her, on the day of her marriage, fifty thousand cartloads of wealth. When Pipphali desired to leave the world, making over to her his wealth, she wished to renounce it likewise, and together they left the house in the guise of recluses, their hair shorn, unobserved by any. In the village, however, they were recognized by their gait, and the people fell down at their feet. They granted freedom to all their slaves, and set forth, Pipphali leading and Bhaddā following close behind. On coming to a fork in the road, they agreed that he should take the right and she the left. In due course she came to the Titthiyārāma (near Jetavana), where she dwelt for five years, women not having yet been admitted to the Buddha’s Order. Later, when Pajāpatī Gotamī had obtained the necessary leave, Bhaddā joined her and received ordination, attaining arahantship not long after. Later, in the assembly, the Buddha declared her foremost of nuns who could recall former lives. ### [v2.c30.169](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.169) ¹ Ap. ii. 583 (vs. 57) says that her mother was Sucimatī and her father Kapila, whence, probably, her title of Kāpilānī. ### [v2.c30.170](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.170) In the time of Padumuttara Buddha she was the wife of Videha, a seṭṭhi of Haṃsavatī, and having heard a nun proclaimed in the first rank of those who could recall former lives, she resolved to acquire a similar rank, while her husband (Mahā Kassapa in this life) resolved to be chief among those who practise austere vows (\*dhutavādīnam\*). Together they did many good deeds and were reborn in heaven. In the time of Vipassī Buddha, the husband was the brahmin Ekasāṭaka and she was his wife. In his next birth he was king of Benares and she his chief queen. Together they entertained eight Pacceka Buddhas on a very lavish scale. In the interval between the appearance in the world of Koṇāgamana and Kassapa Buddha, the husband was a clansman and she his wife. One day a quarrel arose between her and her sister-in-law. The latter gave alms to a Pacceka Buddha and Bhaddā, thinking “She will win glory for this,” took the bowl from her hand and filled it with mud. But later she was filled with remorse, took back the bowl, emptied it, scrubbed it with scented powder and, having filled it with the four sweet foods, sprinkled over the top ghee of the colour of a lotus-calyx. Handing it back to the Pacceka Buddha, she prayed to herself “May I have a shining body like this offering.” ### [v2.c30.171](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.171) In a later birth, Bhaddā was born as the daughter of a wealthy treasurer of Benares; she was given in marriage, but her body was of such evil odour that she was repulsive to all and was abandoned by several husbands. Much troubled, she had her ornaments made into an ingot of gold and placed it on the shrine of Kassapa Buddha, which was in process of being built, and did reverence to it with her hands full of lotuses. Her body immediately became fragrant and sweet, and she was married again to her first husband.² Later, she was the queen of Nanda, king of Benares,³ with whom she ministered to five hundred Pacceka Buddhas, sons of Padumavatī. When they passed away she was greatly troubled and left the world to give herself up to ascetic practices. She dwelt in a grove, developed jhāna, and was reborn in the Brahma-world.⁴ ### [v2.c30.172](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.172) ² The Apadāna account mentions two other lives: one when she was the wife of Sumitta and gave a blanket to a Pacceka Buddha, and again when she was born among the Koliyans and attended on one hundred Pacceka Buddhas of Koliya. ### [v2.c30.173](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.173) ³ Brahmadatta, according to the Apadāna, which gives King Nanda as the name of her husband in another life. ### [v2.c30.174](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.174) ⁴ ThigA. 67 ff.; Ap. ii. 578 ff.; AA. ii. 93 ff., 203 f.; A. i. 25; Thig. vs. 63-6. ### [v2.c30.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.175) Bhaddā-Kāpilānī’s name is mentioned several times⁵ in the Vinaya rules in connection with her pupils who were found guilty of transgressing them. She and Thullanandā were both famous as preachers, and the latter, being jealous of Bhaddā, went out of her way to insult her.⁶ Once Bhaddā sent word to Sāketa asking Thullanandā if she could find her a lodging in Sāvatthi. Nandā agreed to do this, but made things very unpleasant for Bhaddā when she arrived.⁷ ### [v2.c30.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.176) ⁵ E.g., Vin. iv. 227, 268, 269, etc. ### [v2.c30.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.177) ⁶ Vin. iv. 290. ### [v2.c30.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.178) ⁷ Ibid., 292. ### [v2.c30.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.179) Bhaddā Kāpilānī is identified with the brahmin woman in the Hatthi-pāla Jātaka⁸ and with Sāma’s mother in the Sāma Jātaka.⁹ ### [v2.c30.180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.180) ⁸ J. iv. 491. ### [v2.c30.181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.181) ⁹ J. vi. 95. ### [v2.c30.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.182) Bhaddā-Kuṇḍalakesā.—A Therī. She was foremost among nuns, of swift intuition, and was born in the family of a treasurer of Rājagaha. On the same day, a son was born to the king’s chaplain under a constellation favourable to highwaymen, and was therefore called Sattuka (q.v.). One day, through her lattice, Bhaddā saw Sattuka being led by the city-guard to execution on a charge of robbery. She fell at once in love with him and refused to live without him. Her father, out of his love for her, bribed the guard to release Sattuka, let him be bathed in perfumed water, and brought him home, where Bhaddā, decked in jewels, waited upon him. Very soon, Sattuka began to covet her jewels and told her that he had made a vow to the deity of the Robbers’ Cliff that, should he escape, he would bring him an offering. She trusted him and, making ready an offering, went with him arrayed in all her ornaments. On arriving at the top of the cliff, he told her of his purpose, and she, all undaunted, begged of him to let her embrace him on all sides. He agreed to this, and then, making as if to embrace him from the back, she pushed him over the cliff. The deity of the mountain praised her presence of mind saying that men were not in all cases wiser than women. ### [v2.c30.183](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.183) Unwilling to return home after what had happened, she joined the Order of the white-robed Nigaṇṭhas. As she wished to practise extreme austerities, they dragged out her hair with a palmyra comb. Her hair grew again in close curls, and so they called her Kuṇḍalakesā (“Curly-hair”). Dissatisfied with the teaching of the Nigaṇṭhas, she left them, and going to various teachers, became very proficient in discussion and eager for debate. She would enter a village and, making a heap of sand at the gate, set up the branch of a rose-apple saying, “Whoever wishes to enter into discussion with me, let him trample on this bough.” One day, Sāriputta, seeing the bough outside Sāvatthi, ordered some children to trample on it. Bhaddā then went to Jetavana accompanied by a large crowd whom she had invited to be present at the discussion. Sāriputta suggested that Bhaddā should first ask him questions; to all of these he replied until she fell silent. It was then his turn, and he asked “One—what is that?”¹ She, unable to answer, asked him to be her teacher. But Sāriputta sent her to the Buddha, who preached to her that it were better to know one single stanza bringing calm and peace than one thousand verses bringing no profit. At the end of this sermon, Bhaddā attained arahantship, and the Buddha himself ordained her. ### [v2.c30.184](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.184) ¹ Probably meaning “state any one fact true for everyone.” ### [v2.c30.185](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.185) In the time of Padumuttara Buddha, she had heard him preach and place as foremost among nuns one whose intuition was swift (\*khippā-bhiññā\*). She vowed that this rank should one day be hers. Later, when Kassapa was Buddha, she was one of the seven daughters of Kikī, king of Benares, and was named Bhikkhadāyikā (\*v.l.\* Bhikkhudāsikā). For twenty thousand years she remained celibate and built a dwelling for the Order.² ### [v2.c30.186](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.186) ² A. i. 25; AA. i. 200 ff.; ThigA. 99 ff.; Ap. ii. 560 ff. The DhA. account (ii. 217 ff.) differs in various details. There Bhaddā is shut up by her parents at the top of a seven-storeyed building with only a single woman to wait on her, for “girls when young, burn for men!” It was thus that she saw the robber. ### [v2.c30.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.187) In the Therīgāthā³ are included several verses spoken by her when she had been a nun for fifty years, wandering about in Aṅga, Magadha, Kāsi and Kosala, living on the people's alms. ### [v2.c30.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.188) ³ Thig. vss. 107-11. ### [v2.c30.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.189) \*\*Bhaddāli Thera.\*\*—When the Buddha, at Jetavana, laid down the rule that monks should eat one meal a day and that in the morning, Bhaddāli protested and refused to keep this rule because he said that, in so eating, he would be a prey to scruples and misgivings. For three months he avoided the Buddha, until, just before the Buddha was starting on a journey, Bhaddāli, acting on the advice of his fellow-monks, confessed his fault to the Buddha and begged for forgiveness.¹ The Buddha praised this action and preached to him the Bhaddāli Sutta (\*q.v.\*). ### [v2.c30.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.190) ¹ M. i. 437 ff. ### [v2.c30.191](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.191) It is said² that, in a previous birth, Bhaddāli had been a crow, therefore in this life he was always hungry and was known among his fellows as the Great Eater (Mahāchātaka). ### [v2.c30.192](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.192) ² MA. ii. 648. ### [v2.c30.193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.193) Thirty kappas ago he met Sumedha Buddha in the forest, wrapt in meditation, and, having tidied the place where the Buddha was sitting, he erected over him a pavilion.³ ### [v2.c30.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.194) ³ Ap. ii. 365 f. ### [v2.c30.195](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.195) \*\*Bhaddāli Sutta.\*\*—Preached to Bhaddāli (\*q.v.\*) when he confessed his fault. The monk, who believes in the Buddha and obeys his instructions, will ultimately understand \*dukkha\* and will bring it to an end. The sutta also contains the parable of the \*Ajāniya\*-horse. A horse, schooled by an expert trainer and put through the various stages of training, becomes endowed with ten qualities, and is fit to be regarded as a treasure by a king. Similarly, a man who has developed the Noble Eightfold Path and obtained right knowledge and right deliverance, becomes the richest field in which the seed of merit may be sown.¹ ### [v2.c30.196](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.196) ¹ M. i. 437 ff. ### [v2.c30.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.197) \*\*Bhaddā-Suriyavaccasā.\*\*—Daughter of the Gandhabba Timbarū and beloved of Pañcasikha (\*q.v.\*). ### [v2.c30.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.198) \*\*Bhaddika.\*\*—See Bhaddiya (3). ### [v2.c30.199](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.199) \*\*Bhadditthivimāna-vatthu.\*\*—The story of Bhaddā, wife of Rohaka. See Bhaddā (4). ### [v2.c30.200](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c30.200) 1. \*\*Bhaddiya Thera.\*\*—An \*anāgāmī\*, one of seven persons who became arahants as soon as they were born in Avihā.¹ _First 200 of 723 passages. 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