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Sumai
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7. Sumai Fifth Titthamkara of the Bharaha(2) region of Jambuddīva in the present descending cycle.' He was contemporary of Isidinṇa of the Eravaya(1) region.2 His parents, king Meha(5) and his queen Mamgala reigned at Viniya. His height measured three hundred dhanuṣas. He was of the complexion of heated gold.5 He became king at the age of ten lakh purva years, reigned for twentynine lakh purva years and twelve purvāngas and then renounced the word along with one thousand men in the Sahasambavana park. On this occasion he used the Vijaya(6) palanquin. He accepted alms for the first time next day from Pauma(11) at Vijayapura. After twenty years he attained omnisciencell under a priyanga tree12 on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Caitra.13 Camara(3) and Kasavi were his chief male and female disciples14 among his excellent community which consisted of three lakh and twenty thousand monks and five lakh and thirty thousand nuns in one hundred groups under the same number of group leaders.15 At the age of forty lakh purva years he got emancipation along with one thousand monks on mount Sammeya.16 (He was a prince for ten lakh and a king for twenty nine lakh purva years.) There was a gap of a period of nine lakh crores of sägaropama years between Abhinamdana and him. Sumai was Sumitta(1) in his previous birth.18
1. Sam. 157, Vis. 1664, 1758, Nan. v. 18, Ava. 4, AvaN. 1089.
2. Jit. 318.
3. AvaN. 383, 385, 387; NanM. p. 158; Sam. 104, 157; Tir. 468.
4. AvaM. pp.237-243; AvaN. 378, Tir.. 361.
5. AvaN. 376, Tir. 337.
6. AvaM, pp. 204-214, AvaN. 281. 7. AvaN. 225-231.
8. Sam. 157.
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See Sumai.1
1. Tir. 318.
9. AvaN. 228, 320, 323, 327; Sam. 157. 10. AvaM. pp. 204-214.
11. AvaN. 254.
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12. Sam. 157, Tir. 405.
13. AvaN. 243.
14. Sam. 157, Tir. 443, 457.
15. AvaN. 256, 260, 266: Titthogali (445) mentions 116 Gaṇadharas.
16. Ava V. 303, 307, 311. 272-305.
17. Sth, 664, AvaBh. p. 81, Kalp. 200. 18. Sam. 157.
1. Sumamgala First would-be Titthamkara in the Eravaya(1) region. Titthogāli mentions him as fourth Titthamkara.1
1. Sam. 159, Tir. 118.
2. Sumamgala Grand disciple of Titthayara Vimala(2). He burnt Vimalavahana(3) alive with his supernormal power. After death Sumaṁgala was born as a god in the Savvatthasiddha celestial abode. In future he will attain liberation in Mahavideha.1
1. Bha. 559.
3. Sumangala
Previous life of king Senia(1). He was son of king Jiya
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