Poṭṭhapāda untranslated

Poṭṭhapāda 01. A Paribbājaka. A discussion between him and the Buddha on jhāna and on the soul, which took place in Mallikārāma in Sāvatthī, is reported in the Poṭṭhapādasutta. Poṭṭhapāda, accepting the Buddha’s views, was jeered at by his companions for doing so. Two or three days later he again visited the Buddha with Citta Hatthisāriputta (q.v.), when the Buddha continued the earlier discussion on personality and the soul. At the end of the discourse Poṭṭhapāda became the Buddha’s follower (DN.i.178ff). Poṭṭhapāda is identified with Pukkusa of the Mahā Ummaggajātaka. Ja.vi.478.

Poṭṭhapāda 02. The Bodhisatta born as a parrot. For his story see the Rādhajātaka Ja 145, Ja.i.495f.

Poṭṭhapāda 03. A parrot, younger brother of Rādha, the Bodhisatta. Poṭṭhapāda is identified with Ānanda. For his story see the Rādhajātaka. Ja 198, Ja.ii.132 ff.

Poṭṭhapāda 04. A parrot born as the younger brother of the Bodhisatta and identified with Ānanda. For their story see Kāḷabāhujātaka. Ja 329, Ja.iii.97 ff.; see also Ja.iv.129.

Poṭṭhapāda 05. Poṭṭhapāda Thera. In the past he was born as Sunetta, son of King Kitava, and because he insulted a Pacceka Buddha he was reborn in Avīci. Later he was born in a family of fishermen near Kuṇḍinagara, but, remembering his past lives, he refused to take part in any fishing. His parents therefore cast him out, but Ānanda, finding him starving, gave him food, and, at the Buddha’s suggestion, ordained him. He soon became an Arahant and dwelt with twelve others in Sānuvāsīpabbata. Poṭṭhapāda’s kinsmen became Petas, and his parents sent to him a brother, of whom Poṭṭhapāda was specially fond, to plead for his intervention. He therefore begged alms, and offered them to his colleagues in the name of his kinsmen, who thus regained happiness. Pv.iii.2; Pv-a.177 ff.