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Sikhī Buddha
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The twentieth of the twenty-four Buddhas.
- He was born in the Nisabha pleasance in Arunavatī,
- his father being the warrior (khattiya) Aruna (Arunavā) and his mother Pabhāvatī.
- He was so named because his hair (unhīsa = turban) stood up like a peacock’s flame (sikhā).
- For seven thousand years he lived in the household in three palaces — Sucanda, Giri, Vahana (BuA.p.201 calls them Sucanda kasiri, Giriyasa and Nārivasabha) —
- his wife being Sabbakāmā and his son Atula.
- He left home on an elephant,
- practised austerities for eight months,
- was given milk-rice by the daughter of the millionaire Piyadassī of Sudassanannigama,
- and grass for his seat by Anomadassī.
- His Bodhi-tree was a puṇḍarīka.
- His first discourse was taught in the Migācira pleasance near Arunavatī,
- and his Twin Miracle was performed near Suriyavatī under a campaka tree.
- The Bodhisatta was Arindama, king of Paribhutta. Abhibhū and Sambhava were his chief disciples among monks, and Akhilā (Makhilā) and Padumā among nuns.
- His constant attendant was Khemankara.
- Among his patrons were Sirivaḍḍha and Canda (Nanda) among men,
- and Cittā and Suguttā among women.
- His body was sixty cubits high, and he lived to the age of seventy thousand years, dying in Dussārāma (Assārāma) in Sīlavatī.
- Over his relics was erected a thūpa three leagues in height
(Bu.xxi; BuA.201 ff; cf. D.ii.7; iii.195 f; J.i.41, 94; DhA.i.69; S.ii.9; Dvy.333).
Sikhī Buddha held the Pāṭimokkha ceremony only once in six years (DhA.iii.236; cf. Sp.i.191).
For a visit paid by him to the Brahma world see Abhibhū. His name also occurs in the Arunavatī Paritta (q.v.)
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Sikhī Sutta.– The process by which Sikhī Buddha, like the other Buddhas, reached Enlightenment. S.iii.9.¹
¹ This is there called the Hāliddikāni Sutta, and was taught by Mahā-Kaccāna to the householder Hāliddikāni at the Kuraraghara precipice (papāta) in Avanti on the topic discussed in the Māgaṇḍiya Sutta. I can see no mention of Sikhī Buddha (ed.)
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