Sāli untranslated

Sāli, Sāliya. Only son of Duṭṭhagāmaṇī. He renounced the throne and married Asokamālā, a Caṇḍāla girl (Mv.xxxiii.1f). In his previous birth he had been a smith, named Tissa, in Muṇḍagaṅgā, and his wife was Nāgā (Sumanā). The couple gave a meal with pork to eight Arahants (for their names see Mhv­ṭ.606) led by Dhammadinna Thera of Talaṅgatissapabbata. It is said that on the day of birth the whole of Ceylon was filled with paddy, hence his name. Sāli was very pious, and all the revenues given to him by his father he gave away in charity. He kept the fast days in the Issarasamaṇavihāra and built the Sālipabbatavihāra (Mhv­ṭ.606).

He will be the son of Metteyya Buddha in his next birth. Mhv­ṭ.xxxii.83. See also Ras.ii.114f.