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Anomadassī

1. See Anomadassī Buddha

2. Anomadassī.– An ascetic who gave grass for his seat to Sikhī Buddha. BuA.201.

3. Anomadassī.– A Saṅgharāja of Sri Lanka, at whose request the Hatthavanagalla-Vihāra-Vaṃsa was written (D’Alwis’ edition, p.7, n.6). He was the author of a Sinhalese work on astrology, the Daivajña-kāma-dhenu, and he is generally identified with the elder for whom, according to the Cūlavaṃsa (lxxxviii. vv.37‑9; see also P.L.C., 219), Patirājadeva, minister to Parakkamabāhu II, built in Hatthavanaggalla, following the king’s orders, a temple of three storeys and a lofty pinnacle.

4. Anomadassī.– An elder of Sri Lanka, at whose request a pupil of Ānanda Vanaratana wrote a commentary called Sāratthasamuccaya on four Bhāṇavāras of the Tipiṭaka. P.L.C., 227. The work has now been published in the Simon Hewavitarana Bequest Series (Colombo), vol. xxvii. For a discussion on this Anomadassī see the Introduction, p.x-xi.