Pārāpariya Thera untranslated

Pārāpariya Thera. An Arahant. He was the son of a very eminent Brahmin of Sāvatthī, and was so-called because the name of his family was Pārāpara. One day he went to Jetavana to hear the Buddha preach, and the Buddha, seeing him, preached the Indriyabhāvanāsutta.

This probably refers to MN.iii.298ff., which deals with the views of the Brahmin teacher Pārāsariya, and then gives the method of developing the indriyas as taught in the Ariyan Vinaya. The Sutta, however, was preached at Kajaṅgalā and not at Sāvatthī, the questioners being Uttara, a pupil of Pārāsariya, and Ānanda. See Brethren, 295, n.1.

After learning the Sutta, Pārāpariya pondered on its meaning and won Arahant-ship (Thag.vs.726ff.; Thag­a.ii.17f). The Theragāthā contains a number of verses (Vs.920-49; Thag­a.ii.74ff) spoken by Pārāpariya after the Buddha’s Parinibbāna and immediately before his own death.