Ananda would have repulsed him; but Buddha ordered him to be introduced; and then putting aside the ingenious but unimportant question which he propounded, preached to him the Law.

The Brahman was converted and attained at once to Arhatship.

Eitel says that he attained to nirvana a few moments before Sakyamuni; but see the full account of him and his conversion in "Buddhist Suttas," p.

103-110.
(7) Thus treating the dead Buddha as if he had been a Chakravartti king.

Hardy's M.B., p.