Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.627

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1. **Paduma.**—The eighth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in Campaka. His father was the Khattiya Asama¹ and his mother Asamā. For ten thousand years he lived as a householder in three palaces: Nandā, Suyasā and Uttarā.² His wife was Uttarā and his son Ramma. He left home in a chariot and practised austerities for eight months. Dhaññavatī gave him milk-rice, and an Ajīvaka, named Titthaka, spread grass for his seat under his bodhi-tree, which was a Mahāsona. He preached his first sermon in Dhanañjuyyāna. His chief disciples were his younger brothers Sāla and Upasāla and his attendant was Varuṇa. Rādhā and Surādhā were his chief women disciples, and his chief patrons were Bhiyya and Asama among men and Rucī and Nandarāmā among women. His body was fifty-eight cubits high, and he lived for one hundred thousand years. He died in Dhammārāma and his relics were scattered. The Buddhavamsa Commentary states that his full name was Mahāpaduma, that he was so called because on the day of his birth a shower of lotuses fell over Jambudīpa, and that, at that time, the Bodhisatta was a lion.³ 2. Paduma.—One of the chief lay disciples of Revata Buddha.¹