Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.47

v1.c12.47

Kakusandha.—The twenty-second of the twenty-four Buddhas and the first of the five Buddhas of the present Bhaddakappa. He was the son of the brahmin Aggidatta, chaplain of Khemaṅkara, king of Khemavatī, and Visākhā. He was born in the Khema pleasaunce, and lived for four thousand years in the household in three palaces—Ruci, Suruci and Vaḍḍhana (or Rativaḍḍhana). His wife was Virocamānā (or Rocaṇī), and he had a son, Uttara. He left the world riding in a chariot, and practised austerities for only eight months. Before his Enlightenment, he was given a meal of milk-rice by the daughter of the brahmin Vajirindha of the village Sueirindha, and grass for his seat by the yavapālaka Subhadda. His bodhi was a Sirīsa-tree, and his first sermon was preached to eighty-four thousand monks in the park near the city of Makila. He performed the Twin-Miracle under a Sāla-tree at the gates of Kaṇṇakujja. Among his converts was a fierce yakkha named Naradeva. He held only one assembly of his monks. Kakusandha’s body was forty cubits in height, and he died at the age of forty thousand years in the Khema pleasaunce. The thūpa erected over his relics was one league high.