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1. Kondañña. The second of the
twenty-four Buddhas.
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After sixteen asankheyya and one hundred thousand kappas of
pāramī,
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he was born in Rammavatī,
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his father being King Sunanda and his mother
Sujātā.
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He belonged to the Kondaññagotta and
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his body was twenty-eight cubits in
height.
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For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces - Ruci,
Suruci and Subha (Rāma, Surāmā and Subha, according to BuA);
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his chief wife was Rucidevī and his son Vījitasena.
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He left home in a chariot,
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practised
austerities for ten months and
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was given a meal of milk-rice by Yasodharā,
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daughter of a merchant in Sunanda, and
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grass for his seat by the Ājīvaka Sunanda.
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His bodhi was a Sālakalyāni tree, and
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his first sermon was preached to ten crores of monks in the Devavana near Amaravatī.
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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.
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He died at the age of one hundred
thousand at Candārāmā, and
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the thūpa erected over his relics was seven leagues
in height.
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His chief disciples were Bhadda and Subhadda among monks,
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and Tissā
and Upatissā among nuns,
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his constant attendant being Anuruddha.
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His chief
patrons were Sona and Upasona among laymen and Nandā and Sirimā among laywomen.
The Bodhisatta was a king, Vijitāvī of
Candavatī. 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
Aññāta-Kondañña belonging to it, and elsewhere (E.g.,VibhA..464) it is mentioned as a khattiyagotta.
Among those mentioned as belonging to the Kondañña-gotta are:
In the
Kacchapa
Jātaka (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 Vārunī Jātaka.
4. Kondañña.See also
Aññāta-Kondañña,
Vimala-Kondañña and
Khānu-Kondañña.
 
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