Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.514

v2.c36.514

1. Saṅgharakkhita Thera.—He belonged to a wealthy family of Sāvatthi, and, after joining the Order, lived with another monk in a forest tract, meditating. Near them a doe had given birth in a thicket to a fawn. While she tended it, her love kept her always near it, and she was famished for lack of grass and water. On seeing her, the Thera repeated: "Alas! this world suffers, bound in bonds of craving," and with this as his incentive, he developed insight and won arahantship. Seeing his companion cherish wrong thoughts, the Thera admonished him in a verse,¹ and he, too, became an arahant.