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Sobhita 01. Sobhita Buddha. The sixth of the twenty-four Buddhas. He was born in the city of Sudhamma, his father being the Khattiya Sudhamma and his mother Sudhammā. For nine thousand years he lived as a householder in three palaces – Kumuda, Naḷira and Paduma – his wife being Samaṅgī (Makhilā according to the Bv­a.) and his son Sīha. He entered the monastic life in the palace itself and there attained the four jhānas. His wife gave him a meal of milk-rice. After practising austerities for only seven days, he attained Awakening at the foot of a Nāga tree in the palace garden, going there through the air with all his retinue. He preached his first sermon to his step-brothers, Asama and Sunetta – who later became his chief Disciples – in the Sudhamma pleasaunce. Anoma was his constant attendant. His chief disciples among nuns were Nakulā and Sujātā. Ramma and Sudatta were his chief lay patrons among men and Nakulā and Cittā among women. His height was fifty-eight hands. He lived for ninety thousand years and died in the Sotārāma. The Bodhisatta was a Brahmin named Sujāta. Bv.vii.1ff.; Bv­a.137ff.; Mhv.i.7, etc.

Sobhita 02. The constant attendant of Piyadassī Buddha. Bv.xiv.20; Ja.i.34.

Sobhita 03. See Sobhana (3).

Sobhita 04. A Pacceka Buddha (MN.iii.71). Ninety-four kappas ago he lived in Cittakūṭa, and Kaṇhadinna, in a previous birth, offered him punnāga-flowers (Thag­a.i.304; cf. Ap.ii.416).

Sobhita 05. A mountain near Himavā. Ap.i.328, 416.

Sobhita 06. A Brahmin in the time of Padumuttara Buddha; a previous birth of Sāgata Thera. He uttered verses in praise of Padumuttara. Ap.i.83.

Sobhita 07. A tāpasa in the time of Padumuttara Buddha; he was a previous birth of Tissametteyya. Ap.ii.339.

Sobhita 08. Sobhita Thera He belonged to a Brahmin family of Sāvatthī and, after hearing the Buddha preach, entered the Saṅgha, attaining Arahant-ship. Later the Buddha declared him foremost among those who could remember past births (pubbenivāsānussarantānaṁ).

He had resolved to win this eminence in the time of Padumuttara Buddha, when he was a householder in Haṁsavatī.

In the time of Sumedha Buddha he was a Brahmin, expert in the Vedas. Later he left household life and lived in a hermitage near Himavā. Having heard of the appearance of a Buddha in the world, he went to Bandhumatī with all possible speed and uttered the Buddha’s praises in six stanzas (AN.i.25; Thag.vss.165, 166; AN­a.i.172; Thag­a.i.288f).

He is evidently identical with Ñāṇatthavika of the Apadāna (Ap.ii.421f). He was once accused of claiming to possess uttarimanussadhamma, but was exonerated by the Buddha (Vin.iii.109). He was evidently an exponent of the Abhidhamma (see Dhs-a., p.32).

Sobhita 09. Sobhita Thera An Arahant (Ap.i.163). He is evidently identical with Rakkhita Thera. Thag­a.i.173.

Sobhita 10. An ārāma in Haṁsavatī, on the banks of the river, and at the city gate. Padumuttara Buddha once lived there. Ap.ii.343.

Sobhita 11. See Khujjasobhita.

Sobhitā. An eminent Therī of Jambudīpa. Dpv.xviii.9.