Ä€yÄcana Sutta
1. Ä€yÄcana Sutta.- The good monk, if he would perfectly aspire, should wish to be like SÄriputta and MoggallÄna ; the nun to be like KhemÄ and UppalavannÄ; the householder like Citta and Hatthaka; the house-mistress like KhujjuttarÄ and VelukantakÄ«, the mother of Nanda. A.ii.164.
2. Ä€yÄcana Sutta.- Contains the story of the reluctance felt by the Buddha, while meditating at UruvelÄ, in the eighth week after the Enlightenment, to teach his doctrine to the world, feeling that it would not appeal to the human temperament; and of the appearance before him, of the BrahmÄ SahampatÄ«, who had read his thoughts and who entreated him to overcome this reluctance. He assured the Buddha that there were in the world many who would comprehend the Dhamma if they heard it. The Buddha saw that this assurance was justified and agreed to set forth as a teacher (S.i.136ff).
The sutta appears verbatim in the Vinaya (i.4ff) and almost verbatim in the Digha NikÄya (ii.36ff), as an episode in the life of each of the Buddhas mentioned there, but with two variants; the Brahma repeats his request three times and the stanzas in which the request is made, as given in the Samyutta, are omitted.
1. Ä€yÄcana Vagga. The twelfth chapter of the Duka NipÄta of the Anguttara NikÄya. It contains eleven suttas on different topics. A.i.89-91.
2. Ä€yÄcana Vagga.- The third chapter of the RÄdha Samyutta of the Samyutta NikÄya. S.iii.198-200.
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