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attendant was Revata Thera.
His two female Chief Disciples were Sivala TherÊ and Surama TherÊ.
His Bodhi tree was a
KanikÈra
.
His noble male lay supporters were the wealthy persons Suppiya and Samudda. His
noble female supporters were Ramma UpÈsikÈ and Suramma UpÈsikÈ.
Buddha Siddhattha's height was sixty cubits. He shone forth in the ten-thousand
world-system 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 a hundred thousand years.
SaÑvega
Having displayed extensively His physical rays and as well as His intellectual brilliance,
having caused the flowering of the Path and Fruition in His disciples, and having glorified
them with attainments, both mundane and supramundane, Buddha Siddhattha attained
ParinibbÈna with all of them, and came to the end of His final existence.
CetÊya
In this way, Buddha Siddhattha, noble monarch of all monks, attained ParinibbÈna in
Anoma Park, near Kancanavelu city. In that very park, a four
yojanas
high
cetiya
of jewels
was erected, in the way as mentioned for previous Buddhas, and dedicated to Him.
Here ends Siddhattha BuddhavaÑsa.
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17. TISSA BUDDHAVA¥SA.
When the aeon in which Buddha Siddhattha appeared had come to an end, there
immediately followed a
kappa
, a void one, in which no Buddha appeared. When that
kappa
was over and in the ninety-second aeon ago, from the present, two Buddhas, namely, Tissa
and Phussa, appeared. (It was a
Manda-kappa
.)
The chronicle of Buddha Tissa was as follows: In that ninety-second
kappa
ago, the
human life span declined from
asa~khyeyyas
to a hundred thousand years. The future
Buddha Tissa was then reborn in TusitÈ, on complete fulfilment of the Perfections. Having
complied with the request made by devas and BrahmÈs to becoming a Buddha, he
descended to the human world to be conceived in the womb of Queen Paduma, 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:
anatthÈ
and
r|Ähi
. The name given after a
particular event or in a particular meaning is
anvattha
. The name given not after a
particular event or in a particular meaning but given for convenience sake is
r|Ähi
. Here the
name Tissa given to the Bodhisatta is of the
r|Ähi
kind.)
Royal Household Life
When the Bodhisatta, Prince Tissa, came of age, he lived in three palaces, namely,
Guhasela, Narisaya and Nisabha. Being entertained and served by thirty thousand female
attendants, headed by Princess Subhadda, he thus lived a divine-like royal household life
for seven thousand years.
Renunciation
When the Bodhisatta had seen the four omens and when Princess Subhadda had given
birth to a son, named Œnanda, he went forth riding a thoroughbred horse, named Sonuttara,
and became a recluse. A crore of men were inspired by his renunciation and joined him, to
become recluses by themselves too.
Attainment of Buddhahood