Bhūtapāla untranslated

Bhūtapāla 01. An example of one who possessed ñāṇavipphāra-iddhi (Paṭis.ii.211). He was the child of a poor man of Rājagaha, and went one day with his father in a cart to the forest to collect firewood. By the time they returned to the town gate, evening had fallen. The cart was halted awhile, and the oxen, having got free from the yoke, entered the town. Telling the child to sit near the cart, the father set off after the oxen. Before he could return, the gate was shut, and the child owed his escape during the night from wild beasts and demons to his ñāṇavipphāra-iddhi.

Although the place where he slept was near to a cemetery, no evil spirit could harm the boy as that birth was destined to be his last. He later joined the Saṅgha and became an Arahant, being famed as Bhūtapāla Thera. Paṭis-a.493f.; Vsm.379f.

Bhūtapāla 02. The Vibhaṅga Commentary in explaining the term kāsāvapajjota says that it means “resplendent with the colour of orange, completely (ekobhāsinī) like the family of Bhūtapāla seṭṭhi” (Bhūtapālaseṭṭhikulasadisānī). Vibh­a.342; see also Bhūtavālika.