[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c14.910 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.910 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c14.910 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c14.910](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.910) The Bodhisatta is reported to have lived in the household for twenty-nine years a life of great luxury and excessive ease, surrounded by all imaginable comforts. He owns three palaces—Ramma, Suramma and Subha—for the three seasons.⁹ When the Bodhisatta is sixteen years old, Suddhodana sends messengers to the Sākiyans asking that his son be allowed to seek a wife from among their daughters; but the Sākiyans are reluctant to send them, for, they say, though the young man is handsome, he knows no art; how, then, can he support a wife? When this is reported to the prince, he summons an assembly of the Sākiyans and performs various feats, chief of these being twelve feats with a bow which needs the strength of one thousand men.¹⁰ The Sākiyans are so impressed that each sends him a daughter, the total number so sent being forty thousand. The Bodhisatta appoints as his chief wife the daughter of Suppabuddha, who, later, comes to be called Rāhulamātā.¹¹ - [Previous: v1.c14.909](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.909) - [Next: v1.c14.911](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.911) - [Up: v1.c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.910](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c14.910) · Pramāṇa