Acela Kassapa untranslated

Acela Kassapa 01. A naked ascetic. He visited Gotama Buddha at Ujuññā in the Kaṇṇakatthala deer-park and asked him if it were true that he disparaged all penance and reviled ascetics. Their conversation is recorded in the Kassapasīhanādasutta (DN.i.161ff). After the usual four months’ probation, he joined the Saṅgha and in due course became an Arahant (DN.i.177; but according to DN­a.i.363 he was ordained forthwith).

In the Majjhimanikāya (MN.iii.124ff.; also AN­a.i.171) we are told that he was an old friend of Bakkula Thera, and that after a conversation with him obtained his ordination (under him). See also Acela Kassapa (3).

Acela Kassapa 02. An old family friend of Cittagapahati. Having been for thirty years a paribbājaka, he admits to Citta that he had thereby obtained no particular excellence of knowledge. Citta tells him of his own attainments and Kassapa expresses a desire to enter the Saṅgha. He is duly ordained, and shortly afterwards becomes an Arahant. SN.iv.300ff.

Acela Kassapa 03. The Kassapa mentioned in the Acelasutta (SN.ii.18f.; see also SN­a.ii.26f), probably to be identified with Acela Kassapa (1), though the stories of their conversions are different.