Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning at Benares, the Daddara Nagas lived at the foot of Mount Daddara in the Himalayas and the Bodhisatta came to life as Mahadaddara, the son of Suradaddara, the king of that country, with a younger brother named Culladaddara. The latter was passionate and cruel, and went about abusing and striking the Naga maidens. The Naga king, on hearing of his cruelty, gave orders for his expulsion from the Naga world, but Mahadaddara got his father to forgive him and saved his brother from expulsion; the same thing repeated the second time and again he was induced to forgive him. But on the third occasion the king said, “You have prevented me from expelling this good-for-nothing fellow; now both of you get out from this Naga world, and live for three years at Benares on a dunghill.”

So he drove them away from the Naga country and they went and lived at Benares. And when the village boys saw them looking for their food in a ditch bounding the dunghill, they struck them and threw clods and sticks and other missiles at them and mocked at them. But Culladaddara, by reason of his fierce and passionate mature, being unable to put up with such disrespect said, “Brother, these boys are calling us as frog eating lizards. They don’t know that we are venomous serpents. I can’t stand their contempt for us. I will destroy them by the breath of my nostril.”

On hearing his words Mahadaddara consoled:

An exile driven to a foreign shore

Must of abuse lay up a goodly store;

For where his rank and virtues none can know,

Only the fool his pride would care to show.

He who at home a “shining light” may be,

A broad must suffer men of low degree.

So they lived there for three years. Then their father recalled them home. And from that day their pride was abated.

When the Master had brought his discourse to an end, he proclaimed the Truths and identified the Birth: – At the conclusion of the Truths the choleric Brother attained Fruition of the Third Path: – “At that time the choleric Brother was Culladaddara, and I myself was Mahadaddara.