Pakkha Thera
Pakkha Thera:An arahant.He was a Sākyan of Devadaha and was called Sammoda,but in his boyhood he suffered from rheumatism (vātaroga) and was crippled for some time; hence he came to be called Pakkha (cripple) even after his recovery.When the Buddha visited his kinsfolk he entered the Order and lived in the forest.One day he saw a kite flying up into the sky with some flesh,from which first one kite and then another grabbed a piece.Reflecting that worldly desires were like the flesh taken by the kite,he developed insight and attained arahantship.
In the time of Vipassī Buddha he had been a Yakkha senāpati with a retinue of eighty four thousand and had given the Buddha a divine robe.
Fifteen kappas ago he was sixteen times cakkavatti under the name of Suvāhana (Vāham).(Thag.vs.63; ThagA.i.144f).
He is evidently identical with Mahāparivāra of the Apadāna.Ap.i.146f.