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1. Ekasaññaka Thera.An arahant. In the past he gave a meal to a monk named Khanda, a disciple of Vessabhū Buddha. Forty kappas ago he was a king named Varuna (Ap.i.121).

The Apadāna Commentary says he was given the name Ekasaññaka because in his last life he remembered his gift to Khanda.

2. Ekasaññaka Thera.An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he saw a rag-robe hanging in the forest, and gladdened by the sight worshipped it.

Twenty-five kappas ago he was a king named Amitābha. Ap.i.210f.


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