The five hundred ministers’ sons (Chapter 014)

Family: Vārāṇasī · Role: Abja’s playfellows and disciples · First appears: Chapter XIV

The five hundred ministers’ sons were born at the same time as Abja and became his playfellows, running and jumping while Abja was regarded as a cripple. In Chapter XIV, when King Brahmadatta permitted Abja to renounce the world and go to the forest, he allowed the young companions to accompany him. There, Abja received the name “the Dumb Teacher,” and the five hundred became his disciples.

Relationship record

Life events

• King Brahmadatta permitted Abja to renounce the world and take his young companions to the forest.(Chapter XIV · 📍 the forest)
  • With: King Brahmadatta Abja
  • “When the king heard these words of his son he embraced him with tearful eyes, and not only bade him behave according to his wish, but also allowed him to take all his young companions with him into the forest.”

Chapter XIV

• friends with Abja “As the five hundred ministers’ sons who were his playfellows, having all been born at the same time with him, were in the habit of running and jumping, King Brahmadatta reflected that his son, if he were not a cripple, would take part in those exercises.”
• mentor: Abja “When the king heard these words of his son he embraced him with tearful eyes, and not only bade him behave according to his wish, but also allowed him to take all his young companions with him into the forest. There he who had hitherto been called the Dumb Cripple received the name of the Dumb Teacher.”

Also listed in Vārāṇasī — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources. Made with Rho MD.