Sometime in the 5th century before the birth of Christ, sixteen disciples of the venerable sage Bavari made a sojourn up north from Kavitivana on the middle course of the River Godavari to meet Gautama, the enlightened, sheltered for the monsoon at Savatthi in the Gangetic plain. That is the earliest known mention of the Andhakas in Buddhist liturgy. The fate of the sixteen disciples is not very clear with only one of them making it back home after the Master's ...
