Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c38.272

v2.c38.272

Tambasumana.—He was once a minister of Saddhātissa. Having gone to Koṭṭhasāla on official business he gave to a monk the food prepared by the people for him. He was then born in Vallavāhagāma and was called Sumana. Later he entered the Order in Brāhmaṇārāma and became an arahant. A deity of a *timbaru*-tree provided him and 500 companions with food during the Brahmaṇatiya famine. Later, during their travels near Kaṇḍarājika, the monks, about to eat, had doubts regarding the time because the sun was hidden. Tambasumana threw a stone into the sky, and, making it shine like the sun, dispelled their doubts. The spot came to be called Maṇisūriya. On another occasion, at Cullatavālagāma, he converted a whole river into ghee from the ford of Vālagāma-vihāra to Bhuṭṭakatittha, a distance of two yojanas.¹