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Siddhattha Buddha

The sixteenth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

• He was born in the Viriya pleasance in the city of Vebhāra, his father being the khattiya Udena and his mother Suphassā.
• At the time of his birth all enterprises succeeded, hence his name.
• He lived as a householder for ten thousand years in three palaces — Kokā, Suppala and Kokanuda, (Paduma) — his wife being Sumanā (Somanassā) and his son Anupama.
• He left home in a golden palanquin, practised austerities for ten months, had milk-rice given to him by a brahmin maiden, Sunettā of Asadisa, and grass for his seat by a grain watcher (yavapālaka), Varuṇa.
• His Bodhi tree was a kanikāra, and his first discourse was taught at Gayā.
• The Bodhisatta was an ascetic named Maṅgala, of Surasena.
• Samphala and Sumitta were his chief disciples among monks, and Sīvalā and Sarāmā among nuns, while Revata was his attendant.
• Chief among his lay patrons were Suppiya and Samudda and Rammā and Surammā. His body was sixty cubits high.
• He lived for one hundred thousand years, and died in the Anomārāma in the city of Anoma.
• His thūpa was four leagues in height. Bu.xvii; BuA.185 ff; J.i.49.