Anomadassī
1. AnomadassÄ«.- The seventh Buddha. He was born in the park Sunanda in CandavatÄ«, his parents being YasavÄ and YasodharÄ. He lived in three palaces: Siri, Upasiri and Vaá¸á¸ha (Sirivaá¸á¸ha, according to BuA.). His wife was SirimÄ and his son UpavÄna. He renounced household life at the age of 10,000 years, leaving home in a palanquin, and practised austerities for ten months. A maiden, AnupamÄ, gave him a meal of milk-rice before his Enlightenment, and the ÄjÄ«vaka, Anoma, provided him with grass for his seat, his Bodhi being an ajjuna tree.
His first discourse was taught in the park Sudassana in SubhavatÄ«. The Twin-Miracle was performed at OsadhÄ« at the foot of an asana tree. Nisabha and Asoka (v.l. Anoma) were chief among his monks, and SundarÄ« and SumanÄ among his nuns. Among laymen, Nandivaá¸á¸ha and Sirivaá¸á¸ha were his foremost supporters, and among laywomen, UppalÄ and PadumÄ.
King Dhammaka was his royal patron; his constant attendant was Varuna. He lived to be 100,000 years old and died at DhammÄrÄma. He held three assemblies at which were present 800,000, 700,000 and 600,000 respectively.
The Bodhisatta was a powerful yakkha-chief and entertained the Buddha and his following (Bu.x.; BuA.141-6).
It was a discourse taught by Nisabha and Anoma, the chief disciples of this Buddha, that made Sarada-tÄpasa (SÄriputta in his last birth) wish to become an aggasÄvaka himself. Later, Sirivaá¸á¸ha (MoggallÄna), at Sarada’s suggestion, entertained the Buddha and wished for the post of second disciple under Gotama (DhA.i.88-94).
Bakkula Thera was an ascetic in Anomadassī’s day. The Buddha once suffered from an abdominal affliction and it was this ascetic who cured him (AA.i.169; Mil.216).
It is said that at Anomadassī’s birth seven kinds of jewels rained down from the sky and that this was the reason for his name. From the time of his conception the aura of his body spread round him to a distance of eighty hands. BuA.141.
2. Anomadassī.- An ascetic who gave grass for his seat to Sikhī Buddha. BuA.201.
3. AnomadassÄ«.- A SangharÄja of Sri Lanka, at whose request the Hatthavanagalla-VihÄra-Vaṃsa was written (D'Alwis' edition, p.7, n.6). He was the author of a Sinhalese work on astrology, the Daivajña-kÄma-dhenu, and he is generally identified with the Elder for whom, according to the CÅ«lavaṃsa (lxxxviii. vv.37-9; see also P.L.C., 219), PatirÄjadeva, minister to ParakkamabÄhu II., built in Hatthavanaggalla, following the king’s orders, a temple of three storeys and a lofty pinnacle.
4. AnomadassÄ«.- An Elder of Sri Lanka, at whose request a pupil of Ä€nanda Vanaratana wrote a commentary called SÄratthasamuccaya on four BhÄnavÄras of the Tipiá¹aka. P.L.C., 227. The work has now been published in the Simon Hewavitarana Bequest Series (Colombo), vol. xxvii. For a discussion on this AnomadassÄ« see the Introduction, p. x-xi.
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