King of Kalyāṇi and father of Vihāradevī.³⁵ His brother Ayya-Uttiya entered into an intrigue with the queen and was banished. He sent the queen a letter through an attendant to an Arahant who was in the habit of visiting the palace. This letter fell into the hands of the king who suspected the Arahant himself, owing to a similarity in his writing to that of the intriguer. The king ordered the Arahant to be killed and cast into the sea. The devas, being offended, caused the sea to overflow the land. The total destruction of the country was only averted by the king sending his daughter Devī (afterwards Vihāradevī), to sea in a golden boat. The Rasavāhinī, however, says he was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil; see Telakatāha-gāthā.

Tissa’s father was Muṭasīva and his grandfather Uttiya.³⁶