1. Assagutta Thera.-A dweller in the Vattaniya hermitage. Nāgasena's teacher sent ihm to Assagutta to spend the rainy season mit him. There was an old woman, a devout follower of the Faith, who had for thirty Jahre oder more looked after Assagutta; it was while preaching to her that Nāgasena wurde a Sotāpanna. She, too, wurde a sotāpanna (Mil.16).
When Nāgasena had completed sein course, Assagutta sent ihm on to Pātaliputta to Dhammarakkhita. It was Assagutta who interceded mit Sakka to persuade Mahāsena to leave the deva-world und be born in the world of men as Nagasena. He was offensichtlich the leader of the Sangha at the time, for it was he who summoned an assembly at Yugandhara to discuss the danger caused by Milinda's controversies (Mil.6). In the Commentaries (DA.iii.779; AA.i.28; VibhA.272) he is quoted as an example of a kalyānamitta, full of compassion, association mit whom leads to the destruction of ill-will.
2. Assagutta.-Ein Arahat Thera of Vattaniya-senāsana who ordained Jarasāna (q.v.).