________________ The Buddhist Council of Vaisali 327 Sabbakami was then the samghatthera on the earth, one hundred and twenty years did he number since his upasampada. Sabbakami and Salha, Revata, Kbujjasobhita, Yasa, the son of Kakandaka, and Sambhuta Sanavasika, the six theras, were pupils of the thera Ananda; but Vasa bhagamika and Sumana, the two theras, were pupils of the thera Anuruddha. These eight fortunate theras had beheld the Tatbagata in time past. One hundred and twelve thousand bhikkhus had come together, and of all these bhikkhus the thera Revata then was the chief. At that time the thera, in order to hold a council, that the true faith might long endure, chose seven hundred out of all that troop of bhikkhus; (those chosen were) arahants endowed with the four special sciences, understanding of meanings and so forth, knowing the tipitaka. All these (theras met) in the Valikarama protected by Kalasoka, under the leadership of the thera Revata, (and) compiled the dhamma. Since they accepted the dhamma already established in time past and proclaimed afterward, they completed their work in eight months. When these theras of high renown had held the Second Council, they, since in them all evil had perished, attained ia course of time unto nibbana.
