Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.838

v1.c16.838

This may be the Elder who, in the Aṅguttara Commentary,² is mentioned as having resided in Gāmeṇḍavālavihāra in Rohaṇa and ordained Milakkha-Tissa. The same Commentary³ mentions a Cullapiṇḍapātiya-Tissa of Girivihāra in (Ceylon). He, with his divine eye, saw a Tamil gate-keeper of Madhuṅganagāma who, having been a fisherman for fifty years, lay dying. The Elder went to his house and made him repeat the Refuges and the Precepts. The man could not repeat beyond the first Precept, but he was born after death in the Cātummahārājika-world, and came to tell the Elder about it.