[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) › v2.c26.758 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c26.758 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c26.758 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c26.758](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26.758) 1. Nārada.—The ninth of the twenty-four Buddhas; he was born in the Dhanañjaya park at Dhaññavatī, his father being king Sudeva and his mother Anomā. For nine thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces: Jitā, Vijitā and Abhirāmā.¹ His wife was Jitasenā (\*v.l.\* Vijitasenā), and his son Nanduttara. He made his Renunciation on foot accompanied by his retinue. He practised austerities for only seven days, then, having accepted a meal of milk-rice from his wife, he sat at the foot of a \*mahāsoṇa\*-tree, on grass given by the park-keeper Sudassana. His first sermon was preached in the Dhanañjaya Park. His body was eighty-eight cubits high, and his aura always spread round him to a distance of one league. He died at the age of ninety thousand years in Sudassana, and his thūpa was four leagues high. Bhaddasāla and Jitamitta were his chief monks and Uttarā and Phaggunā his chief nuns. Vāseṭṭha was his personal attendant, and chief among his patrons were Uggarinda and Vasabha, and Indavarī and Caṇḍī. Among his converts were the Nāga-kings Mahādona and Verocana. The Bodhisatta was a Jaṭila in Himavā, and the Buddha, with his followers, visited his hermitage, where they were fed for seven days and received gifts of red sandalwood.² - [Previous: v2.c26.757](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26.757) - [Next: v2.c26.759](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26.759) - [Up: v2.c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26.758](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c26.758) · Pramāṇa