Gayā Kassapa untranslated

Gayā Kassapa. One of the three Kassapa brothers, the Tebhātikajaṭilā (q.v.). On leaving the world with his brothers and becoming an ascetic, he gathered round him a company of two hundred other ascetics. They all lived at Gayāsīsa, hence his name (Gayāsīse pabbajito ti Gayā Kassapo nāma jāto). When Uruvelā Kassapa was converted, Gayā Kassapa, with his followers, joined the Saṅgha, and at the conclusion of the Ādittapariyāyasutta they all became Arahants (Vin.i.33f.; AN­a.i.165). Gayā Kassapa is reported (Thag.v.345f) to have said that he used to bathe three times a day at Gayātittha, in order to wash away his sins during the festival of Gayāphaggu.

In the time of Sikhī Buddha he was a householder, and later became a forest-dwelling hermit. One day he saw the Buddha walking alone in the forest and offered him a kola-fruit (Thag­a.i.417f).

He is evidently identical with Koladāyaka of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.379; see also ii.483.