Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1240

v2.c31.1240

Mahāgatimbiya-Tissadatta (v.l. Mahāgatigamiya-Tissadatta).—A Thera. He once went over from Ceylon to India to worship the Bodhi-tree. While crossing, seeing only the waters round him, he fell to wondering which was the more extraordinary, the sound of the ocean waves or the method of the twenty-four divisions of the Paṭṭhāna. The limits of the great ocean then became apparent to him.¹