Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.3451

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1. Sujāta.—The twelfth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in the city of Sumangala, his father being the *khattiya* Uggata and his mother Pabhāvatī. He was called Sujāta because his birth brought happiness to all beings. He lived as a householder for nine thousand years in three palaces—Siri, Upasiri and Nanda—his wife being Sirinandā and his son Upasena. He left home on a horse, named Hamsavaha, practised austerities for nine months, and attained Enlightenment under a bamboo (*mahāveḷu*) tree, after a meal of milk-rice given by the daughter of Sirinandanaseṭṭhi of Sirinandana; grass for his seat was given by an Ājīvaka named Sunanda. His first sermon was to his younger brother, Sudassana, and the chaplain's son, Deva, in the Sumaṅgala Park. He performed the Twin Miracle at the gate of Sudassana Park. The Bodhisatta was a Cakkavatti, and entered the Order under the Buddha. Sujāta's chief disciples were Sudassana and Deva (Sudeva) among monks and Nāgā and Nāgasamālā among nuns. Nārada was his attendant. Sudatta and Citta were his chief lay patrons among men and Subhaddā and Padumā among women. His body was fifty cubits high; he lived for ninety thousand years, and died at Silārāma in Candavatī city, where a thūpa, three gāvutas in height, was erected in his honour.¹