Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.705

v1.c21.705

25. Tissa.—A minister of Duṭṭhagāmaṇi. When the latter fled from Saddhātissa, Tissa joined him and he gave him his own food during the flight. But the food was ultimately given to a monk (see Tissa 26) who accepted their invitation to the meal.¹ It was probably the mother of this Tissa who, we are told,² used a cloth worth one hundred to wipe away the impurities of her son’s birth, which cloth she afterwards threw out on to the Tāḷaveli road hoping that it might prove useful to a pāṃsukūlika monk.