Khadiravaniya-Revata
Khadiravaniya The name of the Bodhisatta when he was once born as a bird in a khadira wood. See the Kandagalaka Jataka. J.ii.162f.
Revata. The fifth of the twenty four Buddhas.
He was born in Sudhannaka (Sudhannavati), his father being the khattiya Vipula and his mother Vipula. For six thousand years he lived in the household and then renounced the world, travelling in a chariot, leaving his wife Sudassana and their son Varuna. The three palaces occupied by him in his lay life were Sudassana, Ratanagghi and Avela. He practiced austerities for seven months and attained Enlightenment under a Naga tree, having been given milk rice by Sadhudevi and grass for his seat by the Ajivaka Varunindhara. His first sermon was preached at Varunarama.
The Bodhisatta was a brahmin of Rammavati, named Atideva, who, seeing the Buddha, spoke his praises in one thousand verses. Among the Buddhas converts was King Arindama of Uttaranagara. The Buddhas chief disciples were Varuna and Brahmadeva among monks and Bhadda and Subhadda among nuns. His constant attendant was Sambhava. His chief lay patrons were Paduma and Kunjara, and Sirima and Yasavati. His body was eighty hands in height, and his aura spread uninterruptedly to a distance of one yojana. He died in the Mahasara pleasance at the age of sixty thousand, and his relics were scattered. Bu.vi.1ff.; BuA.131ff.; J.i.30, 35, 44.
2. Revata. A monk, the personal attendant of Siddhattha Buddha. Bu.xvii.18; J.i.40.
3. Revata (called Khadiravaniya). An arahant Thera. An eminent disciple of the Buddha, declared by him foremost among forest dwellers (arannakanam) (A.i.24). He was the youngest brother of Sariputta, and a marriage was arranged for him by his mother who was miserable at seeing her children desert her one after another to join the Order, and wished to keep the youngest at home. He was only seven years old, and, on the wedding day, the relations of both bride and bridegroom showered blessings on the couple and said to the bride: May you live as long as your grandmother. Revata asked to see the grandmother, and was shown a woman of one hundred and twenty, decrepit, and showing all the signs of advanced old age. Realizing that his wife would probably share the same fate, he left the bridal procession on some pretext on the way home, and ran away to a place where some monks lived. Sariputta, foreseeing this, had instructed the monks to ordain his brother without reference to his parents, and, when Revata revealed his identity, the monks at once admitted him into the Order.
When Sariputta heard this, he wished to visit his brother, but was persuaded by the Buddha to wait. Revata, after waiting a long time for the visit from Sariputta, obtained from his teachers a formula of meditation and himself set out to see the Buddha. On the way he stopped at a khadiravana (acacia forest) during the rainy season and there won arahantship.
At the end of the rains the Buddha,
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