AnurÄdha
1. AnurÄdha.- An Elder. Once when he was staying in a forest hut in the MahÄvana in VesÄli, near to where the Buddha was, certain wandering ascetics came to him and asked him whether or not a TathÄgata exists after death; dissatisfied with his answer they called him “fool†and went away. Thereupon AnurÄdha sought advice from the Buddha, who asked him “How, inasmuch as it cannot be said of a TathÄgata even in this very life that he really exists, can anything be said regarding him after death?â€
S.iii.116-19; the same story is repeated, with slight expansions, in S.iv.380-6.
2. AnurÄdha.- One of those that accompanied Vijaya to Sri Lanka. He later became one of his ministers and founded AnurÄdhagÄma. Mhv.vii.43.
3. AnurÄdha.- A SÄkiya prince, brother of BhaddakaccÄna; a great uncle of Pandukabhaya. He founded a settlement at AnurÄdhagÄma and constructed a reservoir, to the south of which he erected a house for himself. Later he handed this over to Paṇá¸ukÄbhaya. Mhv.vii.43-4.
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