Rakkhita untranslated

Rakkhita 01. Rakkhita Thera. He was born in a noble Sākyan family of Vedehanigama (? Devadaha) and was one of the five hundred youths given by the Sākyan and Koḷiyan chiefs to provide an escort to the Buddha, as an acknowledgement of his having prevented war between them. When the Buddha preached the Kuṇālajātaka (Ja 536), Rakkhita, realizing the dangers of sensuality, developed insight, and later became an Arahant.

In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he heard the Buddha preach and praised his erudition (Thag.79; Thag­a.i.173). He is evidently identical with Sobhita Thera of the Apadāna. Ap.i.163f.

Rakkhita 02. Rakkhita Thera. He was sent to the Vanavāsa country to convert it at the end of the Third Council. Floating in the air amid the people, he preached the Anamataggasaṁyutta. Sixty thousand people embraced the new religion and thirty-seven thousand joined the Saṅgha, five hundred vihāras being founded. Mhv.xii.4, 31ff.; Dpv.viii.7; Vin-a.i.63, 66.

Rakkhita 03. See Mahā Rakkhita in the Somanassajātaka (Ja 505).

Rakkhita 04. The Bodhisatta born as an ascetic. See Mahā Maṅgalajātaka (Ja 453).

Rakkhita 05. Son of Lokitā and Moggallāna and brother of Kitti (afterwards Vijayabāhu I.). Cv.lvii.42.

Rakkhita 06. Rakkhita Thera. See Buddharakkhita.