Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c23.s3.1

v1.c23.s3.1

In all the accounts (*a* to *j*), the indispensability of Ānanda for the compilation of the Piṭakas is acknowledged but at the same time, in most of the accounts, it is pointed out by Kāśyapa that Ānanda was yet a *śaikṣa*³ and not an *aśaikṣa* (arhat), and hence he was unfit to take part in the Council which was composed exclusively of Arhats. Some of the sources (e. g. f) make Ānanda attain arhat-hood (aśaikṣa) just on the eve of the Council.