It was in the afternoon of that day when the Buddha left the cotton farm and arrived at the district of Uruvela on the shore of river Nerajar. There dwelt a large number of matted-haired hermits numbering one thousand. The leaders were three brothers named Uruvel Kassapa, Nad Kassapa and Gay Kassapa, with the retinue of five hundred, three hundred and two hundred hermits respectively. The eldest brother Uruvela Kassapa's hermitage was situated upstream, whereas those of the two younger ones respectively downstream. These hermits were highly revered by the townspeople, who regarded them as the holy ones.

        Upon His arrival the Buddha went straight to Uruvel Kassapa's hermitage, asking for permission to stay overnight there. The hermit was not pleased but later allowed Him to spend the night within the fire-shed where He knew there were some deadly, venomous snakes waiting. But the Buddha readily accepted the challenge and passed the time therein without any harm befalling to Him. In the small hours of the night the matted-haired hermits, who had learnt of the 'stranger recluse' who dared to stay within their forbidden shed gathered to the place, assuming He would have been killed by then. They were amazed to see Him silently engaged in walking meditation as if nothing had happened. This was the first display of the Buddha's superior psychic powers to be followed by a series of such displays no less dramatic and, to those hermits, incredible but true. Finally, convinced that he was no match for the Buddha, Uruvel Kassapa admitted defeat and floated all the fire-worshipping paraphernalia down the river and asked for ordination, which the Buddha granted them Himself i.e. through the Ehi manner.

        Now Uruvel's two younger brothers, Nad and Gay Kassapa, seeing their elder brother's paraphernalia floating down the river, thought that some danger would have befallen him. They hurried to Uruvel and, having learned about the fact, did the same thing and together with all their retinue hermits asked for ordination. All were admitted similarly. After a time the Buddha proceeded to the district of Gayssa together with all the former matted-haired hermits. There He delivered to them, possibly in conformity to their tendency and temperament, a Sermon on Fire, elaborating how many fires within their own minds there were, and how those fires can be extinguished. At the end of the sermon they all attained Arahathood.

It was seven days after that when Venerable Kolita, having been further instructed by the Buddha, was able to attain Arahatship. Then on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon, the fullmoon day of Mgha lunar month, Venerable Upatissa, while attending the Buddha fanning Him in the cave called Sukarakht near the Vulture Peak, was also listening to the sermon the Buddha delivered to a mendicant named Dghanakha. Contemplating uninterruptedly the meaning of the sermons, he attained the Arahatship thereby.

So it was that all the former 250 mendicants had won through to the highest grade of Noble Disciples on this day. It is worth noting that Venerable Upatissa was later nominated the Buddha's Right Hand Disciple, being foremost in Wisdom, and generally known by the name of Srputta. Venerable Kolita, later to be known as Moggallna, was nominated the Buddha's Left Hand Counterpart, being foremost in psychic powers.