[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.c31.773 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.773 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.773 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.773](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.773) The story was told in reference to a wealthy man of Sāvatthi, a stranger who settled down there. He neither enjoyed his wealth nor gave it to others, living in poverty, eating rice-dust and sour gruel, and travelling in a broken-down chariot with a parasol of leaves. He died without issue and his money passed to the king. When the king told the Buddha of this, the Buddha explained to him that the miser had, in a previous birth, met the Pacceka Buddha Tagarasikhī begging for alms and had sent word to his wife to give the food prepared for himself. This the wife gladly did. But the man saw Tagarasikhī with his bowl full of sweet foods and repented of his generosity. Therefore, in this birth, though possessing much wealth, he never enjoyed it. He was childless because he was the very man who had drowned the Bodhisatta's son.¹ - [Previous: v2.c31.772](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.772) - [Next: v2.c31.774](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.774) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.773](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.773) · Pramāṇa