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Bhāradvāja

1. Bhāradvāja. One of the two chief disciples of Kassapa Buddha. J.i.43; Bu.xxv.39; SNA.i.293.

2. Bhāradvāja Thera. He belonged to the Bhāradvājagotta and was a brahmin of Rājagaha. He sent his sonKanhadinna to Takkasilā, to study under a certain teacher, but, on the way there, the boy met a Thera, entered the Order, and became an Arahant. Bhāradvāja, too, heard the Buddha teach at Veluvana, became a monk, and attained Arahantship. Later, when Kanhadinna visited the Buddha at Rājagaha, he met his father and learnt from him of his attainments.

Thirty-one world-cycles ago, Bhāradvāja met the Pacceka Buddha Sumana and gave him a vallīkāra fruit (Thag.vss.177 8; ThagA.i.302f). He is, perhaps, identical with Vallīkāraphaladāyaka of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.416; but the same Apadāna verses are given under Bhalliya (ThagA.i.49).

3. Bhāradvāja Thera. He was the eldest of a clan of Bhāradvājas living in Rājagaha and his wife was a Dhanañjāni brahminee. The wife was a devout follower of the Buddha, and constantly sang the praises of the Buddha, of his teachings, and of the Order. Annoyed at this, Bhāradvāja went to the Buddha and asked a question. He was so pleased with the answer that he joined the Order and not long after became an Arahant (S.i.160f), several of his brothers following his example. (See Bhāradvāja 5)

4. Bhāradvāja. A young brahmin, pupil of Tārukkha. A discussion between him and Vāseṭṭha led to the teaching of the Tevijja Sutta (D.i.235), and also the Vāseṭṭha Sutta (SN., p.115ff.; M.ii.197f).

Bhāradvāja later became the Buddha’s follower (D.i.252; SN., p. 123). The Aggañña Sutta was taught him and to Vāseṭṭha when they were undergoing the probationary period prior to their becoming fully ordained monks (D.iii.80).

Buddhaghosa says (DA.iii.860) that they accepted the Buddha as their teacher at the conclusion of the Vāseṭṭha Sutta and entered the Order at the end of the Tevijja Sutta. Later, while meditating on the teachings of the Aggañña Sutta, they became Arahants (DA.iii.872). According to Buddhaghosa, Bhāradvāja belonged to a noble family worth forty-five crores (DA.iii.860).

5. Bhāradvāja. The name of a brahmin clan; about twenty individuals belonging to this clan are mentioned in the Pitakas. In one family, living at Rājagaha, the eldest was married to a Dhanañjāni brahmini and later became an Arahant. (See Bhāradvāja 3)

His brothers: Akkosaka Bhāradvāja, Asurindaka Bhāradvāja, Bilangika Bhāradvāja and Sangārava Bhāradvāja, followed him (S.i.160ff.; SA.i.175ff.; MA.ii.808). Several other Bhāradvājas living in Sāvatthi visited the Buddha there, and joined the Order and became Arahants; viz., Ahimsaka Bhāradvāja, Jatā Bhāradvāja and Suddhika Bhāradvāja; Aggika Bhāradvāja joined the Order at Veluvana, Sundarika Bhāradvāja on the banks of the Sundarikā, and Bahudhītīka Bhāradvāja in a forest tract in Kosala. Kasi Bhāradvāja, Katthahāra Bhāradvāja and Navakammaki Bhāradvāja became lay disciples.

The Elder Piṇḍola also belonged to the Bhāradvājagotta; so did Kāpathika (M.ii.169f). The gotta was evidently considered to be very ancient. Mention is made in the books of a Bhāradvāja is among the authors of the runes of the brāhmanas (e.g., D.i.242; M.ii.169, 200; A.iii.224; iv.61, etc.). The Kāliṅgabodhi Jātaka speaks of a Kālingabhāradvāja brahmin, while the brahmin carpenter in the Phaṇḍana Jātaka belongs to the same clan.

The purohita Sucīrata, of Dhanañjaya Koravya (in the Sambhava Jataka), is a Bhāradvāja, as is also Jūjaka of the Vessantara Jātaka. In a Vinaya passage (Vin.iv.6; but see DA.iii.860) the Bhāradvājagotta is mentioned together with the Kosiya as a low clan (hīnagotta).

6. Bhāradvāja. A brahmin of the Bhāradvāja gotta living at Kammāssadhamma. The Buddha once stayed there and slept on a mat in his fire hut, and there he met the Paribbājaka Māgandiya. M.i.501ff.

7. Bhāradvāja. A yakkha chief to whom disciples of the Buddha should make appeal in time of need. D.iii.204.

8. Bhāradvāja. A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.70.

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera