[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.c29.864 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.864 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.864 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.864](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.864) Having left the world, the Bodhisatta practises the austerities, the period of such practices varying. In the case of Dīpaṅkara, Koṇḍañña, Sumana, Anomadassī, Sujāta, Siddhattha and Kakusandha it was ten months; for Maṅgala, Sumedha, Tissa and Sikhī it was eight; for Revata seven; for Piyadassī, Phussa, Vessabhū and Koṇāgamana six; for Sobhita four; for Paduma, Atthadassī and Vipassī two weeks; for Nārada, Padumuttara, Dhammadassī and Kassapa one week; and for Gotama six years.¹⁹ On the day the Bodhisatta attains to Buddhahood, he receives a meal of milk-rice (pāyāsa) from a woman and a gift of kusa-grass, generally from an Ājīvika, which he spreads under the Bodhi-tree²⁰ for his seat. The size of this seat varies; the seats of Dīpaṅkara, Revata, Piyadassī, Atthadassī, Dhammadassī and Vipassī were fifty-three hands in length; those of Koṇḍañña, Maṅgala, Nārada and Sumedha fifty-seven hands; that of Sumana sixty hands; those of Sobhita, Anomadassī, Paduma, Padumuttara and Phussa thirty-eight; of Sujāta thirty-two; of Kakusandha twenty-six; of Koṇāgamana twenty; of Kassapa fifteen; of Gotama fourteen.²¹ Before the Enlightenment the Bodhisatta has five great dreams: (1) that the world is his couch with the Himālaya as his pillow, his left hand resting on the eastern sea, his right on the western, and his feet on the southern; (2) that a blade of tiriyā(kusa)-grass growing from his navel touches the clouds; (3) that white worms with black heads creep up from his feet, covering his knees; (4) that four birds of varied hues from the four quarters of the world fall at his feet and become white; (5) that he walks to and fro on a heap of dung, by which he remains unsoiled.²² - [Previous: v2.c29.863](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.863) - [Next: v2.c29.865](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.865) - [Up: v2.c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.864](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.864) · Pramāṇa