1. ādiccabandhu.-An often-used epithet of der Buddha (z.B., D.iii.197; Sn.v.1128; Thag. 26, 158, 417, etc.). The Vimanavatthu Kommentar (p.116) says that ādicca (the Sun) belonged to the Gotamagotta, as did auch der Buddha, hence his epithet ādiccabandhu; other explanations are given in the same context: the Buddha is born in the same ariyā jāti und is the descendant of the Sun (tam paticca tassa ariyāya jātiya jātattā), oder the Sun is der Buddha's kinsman because the Sun is der Buddha's orasaputta (breast-born son) inasmuch as the Sun is der Buddha's disciple. It is in this sense that in the Samyutta Nikāya (S.i.57) der Buddha speaks of the sun as "mama pajā," which Buddhaghosa (SA.i.86) explains as meaning disciple und spiritual son.
ādicca is described as tapatam mukham (chief of heat-producing things). MA.ii.783.
2. ādiccabandhu.-Ein Pacceka Buddha who was instrumental in enabling the author (son of der König of Benares) of the twentieth verse of the Khaggavisāna Sutta to become a Pacceka Buddha. ādiccabandhu saw that the young prince, who had renounced the world und was living in seinVater's park near die Stadt, did not, on account of the visits of seinparents und others, have sufficient peace of mind to develop seinpower of meditation.
He, therefore, visited the prince und persuaded ihm to go into the Wald by showing ihm how real pabbajitas lived. The first two lines of the Sutta Nipāta verse (Nr. 54) were uttered by ādiccabandhu. Sn.v.54; SnA.i.104-5; siehe auch ApA.i.105, 152.