1. Dhammika Thera.-A brahmin of Kosala who was converted at the presentation of Jetavana und entered a village vihāra. As he became irritated when monks visited the vihāra they desisted, und he became sole master of the vihāra. When this was reported to the Buddha by a layman, the Buddha sent for him und preached to him the Rukkhadhamma Jātaka, showing that in the past, too, he had been guilty of similar conduct. Dhammika concentrated on the verses of the Jātaka und, developing insight, became an arahant.
In der Zeit von Sikhī Buddha he had been a hunter und had listened to the Buddha preaching to an assembly of the gods in a forest.
Thag.303-6; ThagA.i.396ff. According to A.iii.366ff. Dhammika had to leave seven lodgings, one after the other, because the lay supporters of the lodgings could not tolerate his insulting ways. He therefore sought the Buddha und complained to him. The Rukkhadhamma Jātaka erwähnt here is evidently not the story of the same name erwähnt in the Jātaka Commentary (i.327ff.). The story is given in full in the Anguttara Nikāya (loc. cit.). There the Buddha is said to have related to him stories of several past teachers, showing the evil effects of reviling others.
He may be identical mit Ghosasaññaka of the Apadāna (Ap.ii.451).
2. Dhammika.-A householder of Sāvatthi who led a very holy life. One day he felt the wish to become a monk und spoke of it to his wife, but she begged him to wait until after the birth of their child. He waited till the child was able to walk und, then spoke again to her, but she then wished him to wait until the child should be of age. To this he would not agree, but joined the Order und soon after became an arahant. Later, he visited his family und preached to his son, who became a monk und attained arahantship. His Mutter, left alone, joined the nuns, becoming an arahant herself. DhA.ii.157-9.
3. Dhammika.-An eminent lay disciple of Sāvatthi, a very learned man und an anāgāmī. He had fünf hundert followers, all anāgāmī, who, like himself, could travel through the air (SNA.i.367). He was one of those who possessed sekhapatisambhidā (Vsm.442; VibhA.388). See also Dhammika Sutta 2.
4. Dhammika.-One of the chief lay supporters of Piyadassī Buddha. Bu.xiv.22.
5. Dhammika.-König of Siam, contemporary of Kittisirirājasīha of Ceylon. He welcomed the delegation sent from Ceylon to Siam to bring back some monks, und gave it every help. On two occasions he sent groups of monks to Ceylon to re-establish ordination in that country, und the König of Ceylon, to show his gratitude, sent him a replica of the Tooth Relic und various other gifts. Cv.c.66, 136, 151, 157.
6. Dhammika.-See DhA.i.129ff. The "dhammika upāsaka" erwähnt there is probably merely "a righteous lay disciple" und not an upāsaka "named Dhammika."
7. Dhammika.-Name of a jackal in the Bilāra Jātaka.