At that time there was a householder in Vesāli who was a supporter of Venerable Ajjuka and who had two children living with him, a son and a nephew. He said to Ajjuka, “Sir, please assign my property to the one of these two boys who has faith and confidence.” It turned out that the householder’s nephew had faith and confidence, and so Ajjuka assigned the property to him. He then established a household with that wealth and made a gift. The householder’s son then said to Venerable Ānanda, “Who is the father’s heir, Venerable Ānanda, the son or the nephew?” “The son is the father’s heir.” “Sir, Venerable Ajjuka has assigned our wealth to our housemate.” “Venerable Ajjuka is not a monastic anymore.” Ajjuka then said to Ānanda, “Ānanda, please do a proper investigation.” On that occasion Venerable Upāli was siding with Ajjuka, and he said to Ānanda, “Ānanda, when one is asked by the owner to assign a property to so-and-so and one does as asked, what has one committed?” “One hasn’t committed anything, sir, not even an act of wrong conduct.” “Venerable Ajjuka was asked by the owner to assign his property to so-and-so, which he did. There’s no offense for Venerable Ajjuka.”

At that time a family in Benares that supported Venerable Pilindavaccha was harassed by criminals. Two of their children were kidnapped. Soon afterwards Pilindavaccha brought those children back by his supernormal powers and put them in a stilt house. When people saw those children, they said, “This is the greatness of Venerable Pilindavaccha’s supernormal powers,” and they gained confidence in him. But the monks complained and criticized him, “How could Venerable Pilindavaccha bring back children who had been kidnapped by criminals?” They told the Buddha. “There’s no offense for someone who uses their supernormal powers.”