Kondanna was a Buddhist bhikkhu in the sangha of the Buddha and the first to become an arahant. He lived during 6th century BCE in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. Kondanna was a brahmin who first came to prominence as a youth due to his mastery of the vedas and was later appointed as a royal court scholar of King Suddhodana of the Sakyas in Kapilavatthu. There Kondanna was the only scholar who unequivocally predicted upon the birth of Prince Siddhattha that the prince would become an enlightened Buddha, and vowed to become his disciple. Kondanna and four colleagues followed Siddhattha in six years of ascetic practice, but abandoned him in disgust after Siddhattha gave up the practice of self mortification. Upon enlightenment, Siddattha gave his first Dhamma talk to Kondanna's g