Vacchapāla Thera untranslated

Vacchapāla Thera. An Arahant. He belonged to a rich Brahmin family of Rājagaha. He witnessed the miracles performed by Uruvelā Kassapa and his self-submission to the Buddha when they visited Bimbisāra together, and marvelling thereat, entered the Saṅgha. Within a week he developed insight and became an Arahant.

In the past he had been a Brahmin, expert in Brahmin lore, and one day, while seeking a suitable person to whom he might give a large vessel of milk-rice left over from the sacrifice, he saw Vipassī Buddha and offered it to him. Forty-one kappas ago he became a king named Buddha (Thag.71; Thag­a.i.159f). He is probably identical with Pāyāsadāyaka of the Apadāna. Ap.i.157.