Editing Devadatta (section)

===Pali Canon===
According to the [[Pāli Canon]], he taught his sangha to adopt five [[tapas (Sanskrit)|tapas]] (literally, ''austerities'') throughout their lives:<ref>{{cite book|last=Boucher|first=Daniel|title=Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana|publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]]|year=2008|page=47|isbn=9780824828813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7ODvLulbjgC}}</ref>

#that monks should dwell all their lives in the forest,
#that they should accept no invitations to meals, but live entirely on alms obtained by begging,
#that they should wear only robes made of discarded rags and accept no robes from the laity,
#that they should dwell at the foot of a tree and not under a roof,
#that they should abstain completely from fish and flesh.

The Buddha's reply was that those who felt so inclined could follow these rules – except that of sleeping under a tree during the rainy season – but he refused to make the rules obligatory. They are among the 13 ascetic practices ([[dhutanga]]).

His followers (including [[bhikkhu]]s and [[bhikkhuni]]s) were new monks from the [[Vajji (tribe)|Vajjī]] clan.<ref>Vinaya, Cullavagga (PTS pg. 198 ff.)</ref>

[[King Kalābu]] was one of Devadatta's past lives.