[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.c32.230 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c32.230 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c32.230 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.230) The Udāna mentions² how, later, Yasoja and five hundred of his companions went to see the Buddha at Jetavana. There they stood talking to the monks who lived there and made a great uproar. The Buddha, sending Ānanda to fetch them, asked them to remove themselves from his presence, as they were behaving like fishermen. Taking his admonition to heart, they returned to the banks of the Vaggumudā in the Vajji-country, and there they determined to lead such lives as would commend them to the Buddha. During the rainy season, they all put forth effort and attained arahantship. Some time after, the Buddha visited Vesāli during a journey and asked Ānanda to send for Yasoja and his friends as he desired to see them. Ānanda sent a message. When the monks arrived, they found the Buddha lost in meditation, and they, too, seated themselves and entered into samādhi, remaining thus throughout the night. Ānanda could not understand why the Buddha, having sent for Yasoja and his companions, should have sunk into samādhi without greeting them,³ and three times during the night he tried to remind the Buddha of their arrival; but the Buddha ignored his warnings and in the morning explained to him that it was more joy for them all to live in the bliss of samādhi than to indulge in mere conversation. It is said⁴ that when Yasoja and the others visited the Buddha at Vesāli, they were very thin and had grown uncomely through their austerities. The Buddha commended their self-denial in a verse, and Yasoja, appreciating the Buddha’s praise, uttered two other verses, exalting the love of solitude.⁵ - [Previous: v2.c32.229](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.229) - [Next: v2.c32.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.231) - [Up: v2.c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.230) · Pramāṇa