Sandhāna untranslated

Sandhāna. A householder of Rājagaha. He was a follower of Gotama Buddha, and it was his conversation with the Paribbājaka Nigrodha that led to the preaching of the Udumbarikasīhanādasutta.

Buddhaghosa says (DN­a.iii.832) that he was the leader of five hundred upāsakas and was an Anāgāmī. On one occasion, the Buddha sang his praises in the assembly for six qualities which he possessed. In the Aṅguttara he is mentioned in a list of eminent lay disciples (AN.iii.451; cf. Divy.540).