Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.641

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1. **Tissa.**—The seventeenth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in the Anomā pleasaunce in Khemaka. His father was Janasandha (*v.l.* Saccasandha) and his mother Padumā. He lived the household life for seven thousand years, in three palaces—Guhāsala, Nārī (Nārisa) and Nisabha—and left the world on a horse named Soṇuttara. For eight months he practised austerities and after a meal of milk rice given by the daughter of Viraseṭṭhi of Viragāma, he sat on grass given by a yavapālaka named Vijitasaṅgāma; he attained Buddhahood under an asana tree. He preached his first sermon at Yasavatī to Brahmadeva and Udaya (Udayana) of Haṃsavatī, who later became his chief disciples. His attendant was Samaṅga (Sambhava), his chief patrons being Sambala and Siri among men and Kisāgotamī and Upasenā among women. His chief women disciples were Phussā and Sudattā. His body was sixty cubits high and after a life of one hundred thousand years he died at Nandārāma (Sunandārāma) in Sunandavatī. His body was cremated and a thūpa was erected three leagues in height.¹