The Twenty-Four Buddhas – 179
He shone forth in the 10,000 world-element like a column of jewels erected for
worship.
Resembling the unequalled former Buddhas, peerless and unrivalled and
endowed with the five eyes, Buddha Siddhattha lived for 100,000 years.
Having displayed extensively his physical radiance as well as his intellectual
brilliance, having caused the flowering of the paths and fruitions in his disciples,
and having glorified them with attainments, both mundane and supermundane,
Buddha Siddhattha attained Parinibbāna with all of them, and came to the end
of his final existence.
In this way, Buddha Siddhattha, noble monarch of all monks, attained
Parinibbāna in Anoma Park, near Kañcanaveḷu city. In that very park, a four
leagues high shrine of jewels was erected, in the way mentioned for previous
Buddhas, and was dedicated to him.
17. The Chronicle of Buddha Tissa
When the aeon in which Buddha Siddhattha appeared had come to an end, there
immediately followed a void or empty aeon (
suñña-kappa
), in which no Buddha
appeared. When that aeon was over, and in the 92
nd
aeon previous to the present,
two Buddhas, namely, Tissa and Phussa, appeared, in a two-Buddha aeon
(
maṇḍa-kappa
).
The chronicle of Buddha Tissa was as follows: In that aeon, human lifespan
declined from immeasurables to 100,000 years. The Bodhisatta Tissa was then
reborn in Tusita, on complete fulfilment of the perfections. Having complied
with the request made by Devas and Brahmas to become a Buddha, he descended
to the human world to be conceived in the womb of Queen Padumā, chief
consort of King Janasandha, in the city of Khemaka. When ten months had
elapsed, the Bodhisatta was born in Anoma Park. On his naming day, learned
readers of omens and his relatives named the Bodhisatta, Prince Tissa.
There are two kinds of name: according to the sense, or meaning (
anvattha
)
and according to custom, or tradition (
rūḷhi
). The name given after a
particular event or in a particular meaning is according to the sense
(
anvattha
). The name given not after a particular event or in a particular
meaning but given for convenience sake is according to custom (
rūḷhi
).
Here the name Tissa given to the Bodhisatta is of the convenience (
rūḷhi
)
kind.