Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.3955

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Sundarasamudda Thera.—He was the son of a wealthy setthi of Rājagaha and was called Sundara on account of his beauty. While yet young, he realized the majesty of the Buddha, when he visited Rājagaha, and Samudda entered the Order. He once went to Sāvatthi, where he stayed with a friend, learning how to practise insight. On a festival day his mother thought of him and wept, seeing the sons of other families enjoying themselves with their wives. A courtezan offered to entice him back, and the mother promised that should she succeed she would make her Samudda's wife and give her many gifts. The courtezan went, well attended, to Sāvatthi and took lodgings in a house to which Samudda frequently came for alms. She saw that he was well seen to and showed herself to him, decked and adorned and wearing golden slippers. One day, slipping off her sandals at the door, she saluted him with clasped hands as he passed, and invited him in with seductive manner.