Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c24.225

v1.c24.225

The Majjhima Commentary⁶ records that soon after the ordination of Dhammadinna many monks, on his advice, became arahants. Hearing of this, the monks of Tissamahārāma sent a number of their colleagues to fetch him. He preached to them, and they attained arahantship and remained with him. Three times this happened. On the fourth occasion an aged monk was sent. He gave the message of the monks and Dhammadinna started at once to go to them. On the way, at Haṅkana (*v.l.* Taṅ- gana) and at Cittalapabbata, he persuaded two monks, who thought they were arahants, to display their *iddhi*-power, and, thereby convinced them of their error; thereupon he gave them topics of meditation. On his arrival at Tissamahārāma, the monks failed to pay him their respects. He thereupon made the earth tremble and returned to his own vihāra. The Saddhammasaṅgaha⁷ relates the story of a blind rat-snake who heard Dhammadinna recite the satipaṭṭhānas and was later born as Tissāmacca, minister of Duṭṭhagāmaṇi.