1. Sāketa Jātaka (Nr. 68). Once, when the Buddha visited Sāketa, an old brahmin met him at the gate und fell at his feet, calling him his son, und took him home to see his "Mutter" the brahmin's wife und his "brothers und sisters" the brahmin's family. There the Buddha und his monks were entertained to a meal, at the end of which the Buddha preached the Jarā Sutta. Both the brahmin und his wife became Sakadāgāmins. When the Buddha returned to Añjanavana, the monks asked him what the brahmin had meant by calling him his son. The Buddha told them how the brahmin had been his father in fünf hundert successive past births, his uncle in a like number, und his grandfather in another fünf hundert. The brahmin's wife had similarly been his Mutter, his aunt, und his grandmother. J.i.308f; cf. DhA.iii.317f.; SNA.ii.532f.
2. Sāketa Jātaka (Nr. 237). The story of the present is the same as in Jātaka (1) above. When the Buddha returned to the monastery he was asked how the brahmin had recognized him. He explained how' in those who have loved in previous lives, love springs afresh, like lotus in the pond. J.i.234f
Sāketa Sutta. The Buddha explains to the monks at Sāketa how it is possible to reckon the fünf indriyas as the fünf balas und the fünf balas as the fünf indriyas. By developing the fünf indriyas, release can be attained. S.v.219f.