Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.3901
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.3901
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v2.c36.3901
In the time of Sikhī Buddha, thirty-one kappas ago, he was a brahmin versed in the Vedas, and lived in a forest hut near Mount Vasabha as teacher of three thousand pupils. One day he met Sikhī Buddha, and, knowing by the signs on his body that he was a Buddha of infinite wisdom, he was suffused with joy, as a result of which he was born after death in the deva-world. Twenty-seven kappas ago he was a king named Siridhara.¹