Korandapupphiya Thera
1. Korandapupphiya Thera.- An Arahant. Ninety-one world-cycles ago he saw the footprint of the Buddha VipassÄ« and offered to it a koranda-plant in bloom. Fifty-seven world-cycles ago he was a king named VÄ«tamala (Ap.i.206). He is probably to be identified with RamanÄ«yavihÄrÄ«. ThagA.i.116.
2. Korandapupphiya Thera.- An Arahant. He was a woodsman in the time of Tissa Buddha, and having seen three footprints of the Buddha, he offered to him a flowering koranda-plant. In all subsequent births his skin was the colour of the koranda-flower. The same verses appear in two places in the ApadÄna with very slight variations (Ap.ii.383, 434). Perhaps these are two distinct persons, because in the TheragÄthÄ Commentary the verses appear twice — once under the name of Sugandha (ThagA.i.81) and once under that of Sabbamitta (ThagA.i.270).
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