Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.634
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.634
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In the past, when the world was without a Buddha, Vasabha was a Jaṭila named Nārada on Samaggapabbata, with a retinue of fourteen thousand. Seeing no one deserving of his worship, he made a cetiya of sand on the bank of the River Apadikā, in the name of the Buddhas, gilded it and offered it his homage. Eighty times he was king of devas and three hundred times king of men.³ He is evidently to be identified with Puliṇathūpiya of the Apadāna.⁴