Relates the story of the Buddha's visit to Baka and the conversation between Baka and the Buddha on that occasion. The incidents of Baka's previous life are referred to but without detail (S.i.142 f). Cp. Brahmanimantika Sutta.
This sutta cannot be identical with the Bakabrahma Sutta mentioned in Theragáthá Commentary and quoted there in full (ii. 185 f). It is stated there that once when the Buddha was at Jetavana a certain Brahmá conceived the view that no monk or recluse could come to his world. The Buddha, aware of this, went to the Brahma world and stood in the air enveloped in flame.
He was followed by Moggallána, Kassapa, Kappina and Anuruddha. Moggallána asked the Brahmá if he still held the same view, to which he replied that he no longer thought that he was eternal. (This shows that the Brahmá of the story was most probably Baka.)
When the Buddha and his followers had departed, the Brahmá sent one of his retinue to Moggallána to find out if there were other disciples of the Buddha as mighty as he. Moggallána's answer was that there were many such (the sutta is given at S.i.144 ff., but there the name given is “Aparáditthi” Sutta).