Manual of Indian Buddhism c4.s3.3

c4.s3.3

On leaving the King, the Bodhisattva went forward, and in due course came to Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka, son of Rāma, two renowned teachers of philosophy⁴. He learned from them the successive degrees of ecstatic meditation (*samāpatti*), but soon discovering that it was not the way to Enlightenment, he resolved to apply himself to the Great Effort (*Mahāpadhāna*)⁵. To effect his purpose, he went to Uruvelā (Uruvilvā). Now it came to pass that the Pañcavaggiyas, i. e. the 5 mendicants, Koṇḍañña and the rest, met with him, and resolved to stay with him, persuaded as they were that erelong he would become a Buddha.