1. Kondañña.-The second of the twenty-four Buddhas.
After sixteen asankheyya and one hundred thousand kappas of páramí,
he was born in Rammavatí,
his father being King Sunanda and his mother Sujátá.
He belonged to the Kondaññagotta and
his body was twenty-eight cubits in height.
For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces - Ruci, Suruci and Subha (Ráma, Surámá and Subha, according to BuA);
his chief wife was Rucideví and his son Víjitasena.
He left home in a chariot,
practised austerities for ten months and
was given a meal of milk-rice by Yasodhará,
daughter of a merchant in Sunanda, and
grass for his seat by the Ájívaka Sunanda.
His bodhi was a Sálakalyáni tree, and
his first sermon was preached to ten crores of monks in the Devavana near Amaravatí.
He held three assemblies of his disciples, the first led by Subhadda, the second by Vijitasena and the third by Udena, all of whom had become arahants.
He died at the age of one hundred thousand at Candárámá, and
the thúpa erected over his relics was seven leagues in height.
His chief disciples were Bhadda and Subhadda among monks,
and Tissá and Upatissá among nuns,
his constant attendant being Anuruddha.
His chief patrons were Sona and Upasona among laymen and Nandá and Sirimá among laywomen.
The Bodhisatta was a king, Vijitáví of Candavatí. He left his kingdom, joined the Order and was later reborn in the Brahma-world. Bu.iii.; BuA.107ff; J.i.30.
2. Kondañña.-The name of a gotta.
It was evidently common to both brahmans and khattiyas, for we find the brahman Aññáta-Kondañña belonging to it, and elsewhere (E.g., VibbA.464) it is mentioned as a khattiyagotta.
Among those mentioned as belonging to the Kondañña-gotta are:
Buddha Kondañña (brahmin),
Candakumára (J.vi.137, 138) (khattiya),
Sarabhanga (J.v.140,141, 142) (brahmin),
the three Buddhas Vipassí, Sikhí and Vessabhú, all khattiyas (D.ii.3ff, see table in Dial.16).
In the Kacchapa Játaka (J.ii.360f) it is said that tortoises are of the Kassapa-gotta and monkeys of the Kondañña-gotta, and that between these two classes there is intermarriage.
3. Kondañña.-The name of the apprentice in the Váruní Játaka.
4. Kondañña.-See also Aññáta-Kondañña, Vimala-Kondañña and Khánu-Kondañña.