devadatta
Devadatta , ( 1 ) (= Pali id. ), n. of a Śākyan, relative of the Buddha and inimical to him: son of Śuklodana, brother of Ananda and Upadhāna, Mv iii.176.15 ; after the Bodhisattvaʼs retirement asks Yaśodharā to marry him, Mv ii.69.2 ; kills an elephant at the city gate but cannot remove it, Mv ii.74.13 ff. ; various previous incarnations identified, Mv i.128.14 ; ii.72.10 ; Divy 328.11 ; instigated Ajātaśatru to parricide, Divy 280.18 ; Av i.83.6 ; 308.5 ; other refs. , Mvy 3610 ; LV 144.10 ff. ; 152.14 ff. ; 154.1 ff. ; enters the order of monks, Av ii.112.4 ; hostility to Buddha, Av i.88.6 ; 177.6 ff. ; Karmav 45.3 ; as a typically, proverbially evil person, Karmav 49.4 ; RP 36.3 ; Devadattodrakasamācāro Śikṣ 105.17 , characterized by conduct like D. and U. ; ( 2 ) n. of an evidently virtuous monk, follower of Buddha, to whom in a previous birth he had taught a holy text, and for whom the Buddha now predicts future Buddhahood: SP 259.2 ff. (only in prose; no verse account of this incident; prob. a late intrusion).