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Nārada Buddha

The ninth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

• He was born in the Dhanañjaya park at Dhaññavatī,
• his father being king Sudeva and his mother Anomā.
• For nine thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces: Jitā, Vijjtā and Abhirāmā (BuA. calls them Vijita, Vijitāvī and Jitābhirāma).
• His wife was Jitasenā (v.l. Vijitasenā), and
• his son Nanduttara.
• He made his Renunciation on foot accompanied by his retinue.
• He practised austerities for only seven days, then,
• having accepted a meal of milk-rice from his wife,
• he sat at the foot of a mahāsona tree,
• on grass given by the parkkeeper Sudassana.
• His first discourse was taught in the Dhanañjaya Park.
• His body was eighty-eight cubits high, and
• his aura always spread round him to a distance of one league.
• He died at the age of ninety thousand years in Sudassana, and
• his thūpa was four leagues high.
• Bhaddasāla and Jitamitta were his chief monks
• and Uttarā and Phaggunā his chief nuns.
• Vāsettha was his personal attendant, and
• chief among his patrons were Uggarinda and Vasabha, and Indavarī and Candī.
• Among his converts were the Nāga kings Mahādona and Veracona.

The Bodhisatta was a Jatiḷā in Himavā, and the Buddha, with his followers, visited his hermitage, where they were fed for seven days and received gifts of red sandalwood. Bu.x.1 ff; BuA.151 ff; J.i.35 f.