Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2648
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.2648
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2. Siggava.—A minister's son of Pāṭaliputta, who lived in three palaces in great luxury. When he was eighteen, he visited, with his friend Caṇḍavajji, Soṇaka Thera at the Kukkuṭārāma and entered the Order with five hundred companions. During seven years, Siggava visited for alms the house in which Moggaliputta Tissa (q.v.) was born, without so much as receiving a word of welcome, but, in the end, he converted and ordained him, teaching him the Tipiṭaka.¹ Siggava's father was Sirivaḍḍha.²