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"Bhante ! All through my life, I have heard many things from the Great Leader; but the words you spoke to day stand unique and without parallel".
Sāriputta went away.
Anāthapiņdika died and was born in a heaven named Tuşitakāya. From his abo de-in heaven, he came down to Jetavana to pay his homage and obeisance to his spiritual guide(20).
The coming of Sariputta at the house of Anathapindika before his death has a close resemblance with the coming of Indrabhūti Gautama to see srāyaka Ananda before he passed away.
Visakhā, Mother of Mrgāra
Visākhā was born at the city of Bhaddiyā in Angadesa. "Gyhapati Mendaka was her grand-father, Dhanajaya was her father and Sumanā was her mother. With Jotiya, Jatila, Punnaka and Kākabaliya, Mendaka ranked among the 'big five'most affluent and most fortunate people of the time. All the five lived in the empire of Srenika Bimbisāra, the ruler of Magadha. Each one of these, again, had a family of five, and all of them were endowed with divine powers. In the family of Gyhapati Mendaka, these five were Mendaka himself, his wife Candrapadmā, his eldest son Dhananjaya, Dhananjaya's wife whose name was Sumana and their attendant named Purana. All these five had very pious souls (21).
(The divine powers enjoyed by them were as follows). When, after taking his bath, Grhapati Mendaka had his granneries cleaned and he sat at their doors, grains were showered from the sky, and his granneries were filled up with these grains. His wife Candrapadma was capable to feed up any number of her servants, slaves and workers out of a bowl of rice and soup, and till' she got up from her seat, these would not be exhausted. The special capacity enjoyed by Dhananjaya was that he placed a thousand coins in his purse, and with these he could settle the pay of all his servants, slaves and workers for six months. Daughter-in-law Sumană enjoyed the special capacity to
