The twelfth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

He was born in the city of Sumaṅgala, his father being the warrior (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 — Sirī, Upasirī, and Sirinando; his wife being Sirīnandana and his son Upasena.

He left home on a horse named Haṃsavaha, he 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 Sirīnandana; grass for his seat was given by an Ajīvaka named Sunanda.

His first discourse 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 Saṅgha 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 quarters of a league in height, was erected in his honour. Bu.xiii.1 ff; BuA.168 ff; J.i.38; Mhv.i.8, etc.