Ä€diccabandhu
1. Ä€diccabandhu.- An often-used epithet of the Buddha (e.g., D.iii.197; Sn.v.1128; Thag. 26, 158, 417, etc.). The Vimanavatthu Commentary (p.116) says that Ä€dicca (the Sun) belonged to the Gotamagotta, as did also the Buddha, hence his epithet Ä€diccabandhu; other explanations are given in the same context: the Buddha is born in the same ariyÄ jÄti and is the descendant of the Sun (taṃ paticca tassa ariyÄya jÄtiya jÄtattÄ), or the Sun is the Buddha’s kinsman because the Sun is the Buddha’s orasaputta (breast-born son) inasmuch as the Sun is the Buddha’s disciple. It is in this sense that in the Samyutta NikÄya (S.i.57) the Buddha speaks of the sun as “mama pajÄ,†which Buddhaghosa (SA.i.86) explains as meaning disciple and spiritual son.
Ādicca is described as tapataṃ mukhaṃ (chief of heat-producing things). MA.ii.783.
2. Ä€diccabandhu.- A Pacceka Buddha who was instrumental in enabling the author (son of the King of Benares) of the twentieth verse of the KhaggavisÄna Sutta to become a Pacceka Buddha. Ä€diccabandhu saw that the young prince, who had renounced the world and was living in his father’s park near the city, did not, on account of the visits of his parents and others, have sufficient peace of mind to develop his power of meditation.
He, therefore, visited the prince and persuaded him to go into the forest by showing him how real pabbajitas lived. The first two lines of the Sutta NipÄta verse (No. 54) were uttered by Ä€diccabandhu. Sn.v.54; SnA.i.104-5; see also ApA.i.105, 152.
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