ABSTRACT
Vested in the man the abnormally-more was known by the name of rddhi, a word which in Pali slipped down into tddhu. The Man of the super-values talks in terms of fixed schedule; the venerable and eminent disciple has on the subject no words at all, fixed or otherwise. Even the samana, the recluse was as likely as not to have developed some individual supernormal gift, rarely found in the man of the world. A man having power of iddhi is already the more, even if it be a more only in the power over matter. But that Siddhattha Gotama was himself abnormally gifted in iddhi lies too much in the very marrow of the records on the beginning of his career as teacher to be as lightly passed over as it usually is. The Iddhipadas show the man willing-to-become with his own resources.
