The ninth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

He was born in the Dhanañjaya park at Dhaññavatī,

his father being king Sudeva and his mother Anomā.

For nine thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces: Jitā, Vijjtā and Abhirāmā (BuA. calls them Vijita, Vijitāvī and Jitābhirāma).

His wife was Jitasenā (v.l. Vijitasenā), and

his son Nanduttara.

He made his Renunciation on foot accompanied by his retinue.

He practised austerities for only seven days, then,

having accepted a meal of milk-rice from his wife,

he sat at the foot of a mahāsona tree,

on grass given by the parkkeeper Sudassana.

His first discourse was taught in the Dhanañjaya Park.

His body was eighty-eight cubits high, and

his aura always spread round him to a distance of one league.

He died at the age of ninety thousand years in Sudassana, and

his thūpa was four leagues high.

Bhaddasāla and Jitamitta were his chief monks

and Uttarā and Phaggunā his chief nuns.

Vāsettha was his personal attendant, and

chief among his patrons were Uggarinda and Vasabha, and Indavarī and Candī.

Among his converts were the Nāga kings Mahādona and Veracona.

The Bodhisatta was a Jatiḷā in Himavā, and the Buddha, with his followers, visited his hermitage, where they were fed for seven days and received gifts of red sandalwood. Bu.x.1 ff; BuA.151 ff; J.i.35 f.