Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.4090

v2.c36.4090

In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a brahmin, named Varuṇa, who left his ten children and became an ascetic in the forest. There he met the Buddha and his monks and gave them fruit. He belonged to a khattiya family in the time of Kassapa Buddha, but through pride of birth and learning used to detract his colleagues—hence his birth in a low caste in his last life.¹