1. Atthadassí.-The fourteenth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in Sobhana in the Sucindhanu pleasaunce, his parents being Ságara and Sudassaná (Bu.xv.; BuA.178ff). He was so called because at his birth people recovered long-buried treasures. His wife was Visákhá and his son Sena (Sela according to the Buddhavamsa Commentary). He lived for 10,000 years as a householder in three palaces - Amaragiri, Suragiri and Giriváhana. He left home on a horse called Sudassana. His penance lasted eight months, and his meal of milk-rice was given by a nága woman, Sucindhará. A nága, Dhammaruci, gave him the grass which he spread at the foot of the campaka tree, where he reached Enlightenment. His first sermon was preached in the Anomá-park near Anoma. His chief disciples were Santa, the king's son, and Upasanta, son of the chaplain of Sucandaka. His chief women disciples were Dhammá and Sudhammá. Abhaya was his attendant, and his patrons were Nakula and Nisabha among the laymen, and Makilá and Sunandá among the lay-women. The Bodhisatta was a jatila, Susíma of Campaka, and he offered the Buddha a canopy of flowers brought from the deva-world. Atthadassí died at the age of 100,000 years at Anomáráma in Anupama and his relics were scattered in various places. He appeared in the Mandakappa, in the company of two others, Piyadassí and Dhammadassí. J.i.39.
2. Atthadassí. A Thera in Ceylon who, in company with two others, Buddhamitta and Buddhadeva, asked that the Játakatthakatha be written (J.i.1; Gv.68). He was probably an incumbent of the Mahávihara in Anurádhapura. See Páli Lit. of Ceylon, 125.
3. Atthadassí.-One of the mythological kings of Kapilavatthu. Dip.iii.41.
4. Atthadassí.-A Thera in Ceylon, supposed by some to be the author of the Bhesajjamańjúsá and to have been the head of the Pańca-múla parivena. Páli Lit. of Ceylon, 215.