History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c14.s1.11

c14.s1.11

Upaka the Ājīvika does not vanish from the scene after his meeting with the Buddha. In the *Therīgāthā*,³ where he is called Kāla, he is said to have fallen madly in love with a hunter’s daughter Cāpā, whom he married and by whom he had a son, Subhadda. His wife appears to have treated him badly, continually taunting him for his earlier Ājīvika connections. One day he remembered his meeting with the Buddha, left his wife, and went to the Buddha at Sāvatthi. There he entered the Buddhist order, and later became an *anāgāmī*. On his death he was reborn in the Aviha heaven.