Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.3274

v1.c12.3274

Koṇāgamana Sutta.—The thoughts that came to Koṇāgamana before his Enlightenment, regarding birth, decay and death.¹ 1. Koṇḍañña.—The second of the twenty-four Buddhas. After sixteen asaṅkheyya and one hundred thousand kappas of pāramī, he was born in Rammavatī, his father being King Sunanda and his mother Sujātā. He belonged to the Koṇḍaññagotta and his body was twenty-eight cubits in height. For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces—Ruci, Suruci and Subha¹; his chief wife was Rucidevī and his son Vijitasena. He left home in a chariot, practised austerities for ten months and was given a meal of milk-rice by Yasodharā, daughter of a merchant in Sunanda, and grass for his seat by the Ājīvaka Sunanda. His bodhi was a Sālakalyāṇī tree, and his first sermon was preached to ten crores of monks in the Devavana near Amaravatī. He held three assemblies of his disciples, the first led by Subhadda, the second by Vijitasena and the third by Udena, all of whom had become arahants. He died at the age of one hundred thousand at Candārāmā, and the thūpa erected over his relics was seven leagues in height. His chief disciples were Bhadda and Subhadda among monks, and Tissā and Upatissā among nuns, his constant attendant being Anuruddha. His chief patrons were Soṇa and Upasoṇa among laymen and Nandā and Sirimā among laywomen.