[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.c27.709 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.709 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.709 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.709](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.709) 1. Padumuttara.—The tenth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in Haṃsavatī, of the khattiya Ānanda and his wife Sujātā. At the moments of his birth and his Enlightenment, a shower of lotuses fell in the ten thousand worlds, hence his name. He lived as a householder for ten thousand years in three palaces: Naravāhana, Yasa (or Yasavatī) and Vasavatti. His wife was Vasudattā, by whom he had a son, Uttara.¹ He left home in his palace (Vasavatti), and practised austerities only for seven days. A maiden of Ujjeni, called Rucinandā, gave him milk-rice, and the Ājīvaka Sumitta gave him grass for his seat. His bodhi-tree was a salala, under which he spent a week, and when he touched the ground with his foot, huge lotus flowers sprang out of the earth, covering his body completely with their pollen. (The Saṃyuttabhāṇakas give this as the reason for his name.) His first sermon was preached to his cousins Devala and Sujātā, who later became his chief disciples. The spot where the sermon was preached was Mithiluyyāna. Sumana was Padumuttara’s personal attendant, Amitā and Asamā his chief women disciples, Vitiṇṇa and Tissa his chief patrons among men, and Hatthā and Vicittā among women. His body was fifty-eight cubits high, and his aura spread for twelve yojanas. He died in Nandārāma at the age of one hundred thousand, and a thūpa twelve leagues in height was erected over his relics. In his time, the Bodhisatta was governor of a province (raṭṭhika) called Jaṭika (Jaṭila).² It is said³ that in the time of Padumuttara there did not exist a single heretic. - [Previous: v2.c27.708](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.708) - [Next: v2.c27.710](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.710) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.709](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.709) · Pramāṇa