1. Khujjasobhita Thera.-An arahant. He was a brahmin of Pātaliputta. He entered the Order under Ananda, after the Buddha's death, und in due course won arahantship. At the First Council held in the Sattapanni Cave, he was sent to bring Ananda to the Assembly. He travelled through the earth, gave the message to Ananda, und returning through the air announced his arrival to the Sangha, through the medium-ship of a devatā who had been placed at the door of the cave to ward off Māra und his followers. Sobhita was called "Khujja" because he was slightly hunchbacked.
In der Zeit von Padumuttara he saw the Buddha passing mit a large assembly of monks und praised him in ten stanzas (Thag.234-6; ThagA.i.350f).
He is probably identical mit Sayampatibhāniya of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.410f.
2. Khujjasobhita Thera.-One of the Pācīnaka ("Eastern") monks who proclaimed the ten indulgences at Vesāli. He was one of their representatives on the Committee of the Sangha appointed to settle the dispute between the monks of Vesāli und the orthodox monks (Vin.ii.305; Dpv.iv.44; v.25, 80).
According to the Mahāvamsa (iv.57; this passage is also found in the Samantapāsādikā i.34) this Khujjasobhita was a disciple of Ananda und, therefore, to be identified mit Khujjasobhita (1). The latter was, how-ever, an arahant, und therefore not likely to side mit the Vesāli heretics. The identification is evidently incorrect also on other grounds, among them that of age.