Upasīva untranslated

Upasīva. One of the disciples of Bāvarī (Sn.vs.1007). The questions he asked the Buddha, when he visited him in the company of his colleagues, are recorded in the Upasīvamāṇavapucchā (Sn.vv.1069-76). Upasīva joined the Saṅgha and became an Arahant. According to the Apadāna (ii.345ff), in the time of Padumuttara he had been an ascetic in a mountain named Anoma, near Himavā. Once the Buddha visited his hermitage and the ascetic spread a seat for him with grass and flowers and gave him fruit to eat. He also gave the Buddha a quantity of fragrant aloe-wood. As a result, he was born in heaven for thirty thousand kappas and was seventy-one times king of the Devas. The Apadāna account makes no mention of Bāvarī.