Atthadassī
1. AtthadassÄ«.- The fourteenth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in Sobhana in the Sucindhanu pleasaunce, his parents being SÄgara and SudassanÄ (Bu.xv.; BuA.178ff). He was so called because at his birth people recovered long-buried treasures. His wife was VisÄkhÄ and his son Sena (Sela according to the Buddhavamsa Commentary). He lived for 10,000 years as a householder in three palaces — Amaragiri, Suragiri and GirivÄhana. He left home on a horse called Sudassana. His penance lasted eight months, and his meal of milk-rice was given by a nÄga woman, SucindharÄ. A nÄga, Dhammaruci, gave him the grass which he spread at the foot of the campaka tree, where he reached Enlightenment. His first discourse was taught in the AnomÄ-park near Anoma. His chief disciples were Santa, the king’s son, and Upasanta, son of the chaplain of Sucandaka. His chief women disciples were DhammÄ and SudhammÄ. Abhaya was his attendant, and his patrons were Nakula and Nisabha among the laymen, and MakilÄ and SunandÄ among the lay-women. The Bodhisatta was a jaá¹ila, SusÄ«ma of Campaka, and he offered the Buddha a canopy of flowers brought from the deva-world. AtthadassÄ« died at the age of 100,000 years at AnomÄrÄma in Anupama and his relics were scattered in various places. He appeared in the Mandakappa, in the company of two others, PiyadassÄ« and DhammadassÄ«. J.i.39.
2. AtthadassÄ«. A Thera in Sri Lanka who, in company with two others, Buddhamitta and Buddhadeva, asked that the JÄtakaá¹á¹hakatha be written (J.i.1; Gv.68). He was probably an incumbent of the MahÄvihara in AnurÄdhapura. See PÄḷi Lit. of Ceylon, 125.
3. Atthadassī.- One of the mythological kings of Kapilavatthu. Dip.iii.41.
4. AtthadassÄ«.- A Thera in Sri Lanka, supposed by some to be the author of the BhesajjamañjÅ«sÄ and to have been the head of the Pañca-mÅ«la pariveṇa. PÄḷi Lit. of Ceylon, 215.
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