Sujāta Buddha
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1. Sujāta. The twelfth of the twenty four Buddhas.
- He was born in the city of Sumangala,
- his father being the khattiya Uggata and his mother Pabhāvatī.
- He was called Sujāta because his birth brought happiness to all beings.
- He lived as a householder for nine thousand years in three palaces - Siri, Upasiri and Nanda
- his wife being Sirinandā and his son Upasena.
- He left home on a horse, named Hamsavaha,
- practiced austerities for nine months,
- and attained Enlightenment under a bamboo (mahāvelu) tree,
- after a meal of milk rice given by the daughter of Sirinandanasetthi of Sirinandans;
- grass for his seat was given by an Ajīvaka named Sunanda.
- His first sermon was to his younger brother, Sudassana, and the chaplain's son, Deva, in the Sumangala Park.
- He performed the Twin Miracle at the gate of Sudassana Park.
- The Bodhisatta was a Cakkavatti, and entered the Order under the Buddha.
- Sujāta's chief disciples were Sudassana and Deva (Sudeva) among monks
- and Nāgā and Nāgasamālā among nuns.
- Nārada was his attendant.
- Sudatta and Citta were his chief lay patrons among men
- and Subhaddā and Padumā among women.
- His body was fifty cubits high;
- he lived for ninety thousand years, and died at Silārāma in Candavatī city, where a thūpa, three gāvutas in height, was erected in his honour. Bu.xiii.1ff.; BuA.168 ff.; J.i.38; Mhv.i.8, etc.