12. The Brahman named Kasyapa, a very Kuvera for wealth, and a master in all the sciences connected with the Veda, an inhabitant of Ragageha, being pure-minded and wearing only one garment, left all his kindred and came seeking wisdom in asceticism; -when this noble youth came to the Bodhi tree and practised for six years a penance hard to carry out, then he paid worship to the chief of saints who had attained perfect knowledge, and he became the well known Kasyapa, the chief of ascetics, the foremost of the Arhats.