[Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms by Fa-Hsien]@TWC D-Link book
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XX
10/20

She is yet to become a Buddha.
(5) Sudatta, meaning "almsgiver," was the original name of Anatha-pindika (or Pindada), a wealthy householder, or Vaisya head, of Sravasti, famous for his liberality (Hardy, Anepidu).

Of his old house, only the well and walls remained at the time of Fa-Hsien's visit to Sravasti.
(6) The Angulimalya were a sect or set of Sivaitic fanatics, who made assassination a religious act.

The one of them here mentioned had joined them by the force of circumstances.

Being converted by Buddha, he became a monk; but when it is said in the text that he "got the Tao," or doctrine, I think that expression implies more than his conversion, and is equivalent to his becoming an Arhat.

His name in Pali is Angulimala.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books