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ANANDA , one of the See also:

principal disciples of the See also:Buddha (q.v.). He has been called the beloved See also:disciple of the Buddhist See also:story. He was the first See also:cousin of the Buddha, and was devotedly attached to him. Ananda entered the See also:Order in the second See also:year of the Buddha's See also:ministry, and became one of his See also:personal attendants, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and being the interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues. He is the subject of a See also:special See also:panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before his See also:death (See also:Book of the See also:Great Decease, v. 38); but it is the panegyric of an unselfish See also:man, kindly, thoughtful for others and popular; not of the intellectual man, versed in the theory and practice of the Buddhist See also:system of self-culture. So in the See also:long See also:list of the disciples given in the Anguttara (i. xiv.) where each of them is declared to be the See also:chief in some See also:gift, Ananda is mentioned five times (which is more often than any other), but it is as chief in conduct and in service to others and in See also:power of memory, not in any of the intellectual See also:powers so highly prized in the community. This explains why he had not attained to arahatship; and in the earliest See also:account of the See also:convocation said to have been held by five See also:hundred of the principal disciples immediately after the Buddha's death, he was the only one who was not an arahat (Cullavagga, book xi.). In later. accounts this incident is explained away. See also:Thirty-three verses ascribed to Ananda are preserved in a collection of lyrics by the principal male and See also:female members of the order (See also:Thera Gallia, 1017—1050). They show a See also:gentle and reverent but See also:simple spirit. (T.

W. R.

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