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Samiddhi

In the past he met Siddhattha Buddha, to whom he gave some flowers with stalks, which he picked with the help of his bow and arrow. Fifty-one world-cycles ago he was a king named Jutindhara (ThagA.i.117f). He is probably identical with Salalamāliya of the Apadāna (Ap.i.206).

Once when Samiddhi was drying himself after bathing in the Tapodā, a Deva approached and questioned him on the Bhaddekaratta Sutta. Samiddhi confessed ignorance, and the Deva asked him to learn it from the Buddha. This he did from a brief discourse taught him by the Buddha, which Mahā Kaccāna later enlarged into the Mahā Kaccāna-Bhaddekaratta Sutta (q.v.) (M.iii.192f). A conversation between Potaliputta and Samiddhi, three years after the latter had joined the Order, led to the teaching of the Mahākammavibhanga Sutta (q.v. ) (M.iii.207). In the sutta the Buddha speaks of Samiddhi as a foolis  man (moghapurisa), and Samiddhi is also teased by Potaliputta for pretending to expound the Dhamma after being only three years in the Order. According to the Aṅguttara Commentary (AA.ii.799), Samiddhi was a co-resident pupil (saddhivihārika) of Sāriputta, and the Aṅguttara (A.iv.385f ) contains a record of a lesson given by Sāriputta to Samiddhi regarding the application of thought (saṅkappa vitakka). See also the Samīddhi Jātaka and the Samīddhi Sutta (2).

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera