[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.c36.3727 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.3727 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.3727 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c36.3727](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.3727) \*\*Suddhāvāsā.\*\*—The "Pure Abodes"; a name given to a group of Brahma-worlds—the five highest Rūpa-worlds—consisting of \*\*Avihā, Atappā, Sudassā, Sudassī\*\* and \*\*Akaniṭṭhā\*\*.¹ There \*anāgāmins\* are born, and there they attain arahantship; such \*anāgāmins\* are divided into twenty-four classes.² Bodhisattas are never born there.³ The Suddhāvāsā are described as \*buddhānaṃ khandhāvāratṭhānasadisā\*. Sometimes, for \*asaṅkheyyas\* of kappas, when no Buddhas are born, these worlds remain empty.⁴ The Buddha is mentioned as having visited the Suddhāvāsā.⁵ When a Buddha is about to be born, the inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā insert a knowledge of the signs of a Great Being in the Vedas and teach this among men in the guise of brahmins, calling such knowledge \*buddha-manta\*. Men learn it and are thus able to recognize a Great Being.⁶ The inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā know how many Buddhas will be born in any particular kappa by observing the number of lotuses which spring up on the site of the \*\*Bodhi-pallaṅka\*\* when the earth gradually emerges after the destruction of the world.⁷ It is the Suddhāvāsā Brahmās who provide the four omens which lead to a Bodhisatta's renunciation in his last lay life.⁸ - [Previous: v2.c36.3726](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.3726) - [Next: v2.c36.3728](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.3728) - [Up: v2.c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.3727](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.3727) · Pramāṇa