Ajita untranslated

Ajita 01. A monk. He devoted his time to explaining the Pātimokkha rules to the monks. At the time of the Second Council he was a monk of ten years’ standing and was appointed to assign seats to the Theras. Vin.ii.305

Ajita 02. A paribbājaka who visited the Buddha, and at whose instigation the Buddha preached to the Bhikkhus on the difference between Dhamma and adhamma. AN.v.229ff.

Ajita 03. A Brahmin, the Bodhisatta in the time of Sobhita Buddha. Ja.i.35.

Ajita 04. General of the Licchavīs and follower of the Buddha. Immediately after his death he was born in Tāvatiṁsa; he visited the Buddha to refute a statement made about him by the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta to the effect that he had been born in the Mahā Niraya as a result of having followed the teaching of the Buddha. DN.iii.15-16; DN­a.iii.825.

Ajita 05. Ajita Thera. He belonged to a poor Brahmin family of Sāvatthī, and was so-called because at birth he was wrapped in an antelope skin. He saw the presentation of Jetavana and, impressed by the majesty of the Buddha, joined the Saṅgha and later became an Arahant. But because of past misdeeds he remained unhonoured and unknown, and on this account was despised by worldly novices (Thag.129-30; Thag­a.i.250f).

He is evidently to be identified with Ghatamaṇḍadāyaka Thera of the Apadāna (ii.436). In a previous birth he gave butter as medicine to the Pacceka Buddha, Sucintita.

Ajita 06. Ajita Thera. (Ap.i.335ff), probably to be identified with Ajitamāṇava, but the story of his past differs completely from that of Ajitamāṇava given in the Thag. Commentary. In the time of the Buddha Padumuttara he lit a lamp in front of the Enlightened One. As a result of this he enjoyed happiness in heaven for 60,000 kappas, and when he was born from Tusita in this Buddha­age there was a great light on the day of his birth. He is stated to have been a disciple of Bāvarī (Ap.i.337, 28), but he heard of the Buddha while in Himavā. Later he became an Arahant.

Ajita 07. The lay name of Metteya Buddha in his last birth, when he will attain Awakening, Anāgatavaṁsa, pp. 43, 45, 56.

Ajita 08. (v.l. Ajina). A Pacceka Buddha who lived ninety-one kappas ago. Dāsaka Thera, in a previous birth, gave him mangoes to eat). Thag­a.i.68.

Ajita 09. A Brahmin, a previous birth of Citapūjaka Thera; he offered flowers to Sikhī Buddha. Ap.i.243.

Ajita 10. Ajitamāṇava. (see separate entry)