Suddhavāsa untranslated

Suddhavāsa. A Pacceka Brahma who, with Subrahmā, went to visit the Buddha, but, finding him in meditation during the noonday heat, went to see a certain Brahma who was infatuated with his own importance. They told him of the greater power and majesty of the Buddha, whom they persuaded him to visit. SN.i.146.

Suddhāvāsā. The “Pure Abodes”; a name given to a group of Brahma-worlds – the five highest Rūpa worlds – consisting of: Avihā, Atappā, Sudassā, Sudassī and Akaniṭṭhā (e.g., DN.iii.237). There Anāgāmīs are born, and there they attain Arahant-ship; such Anāgāmīs are divided into twenty-four classes (See, e.g., Khp­a.182f.; of. Paṭis-a.319; Vsm.710). Bodhisattas are never born there (Snp­a.i.50; Bv­a.224).

The Suddhāvāsā are described as Buddhānaṁ khandhāvāraṭṭhānasadisā, like the Buddhas’ reliquary sites. Sometimes, for asaṅkheyyas of kappas, when no Buddhas are born, these worlds remain empty (AN­a.ii.808; cf. MN­a.i.30).

The Buddha is mentioned as having visited the Suddhāvāsā (e.g., DN.ii.50). When a Buddha is about to be born, the inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā insert a knowledge of the signs of a Great Being in the Vedas and teach this among men in the guise of Brahmins, calling such knowledge buddhamanta. Men learn it and are thus able to recognize a Great Being (MN­a.ii.761; Snp­a.ii.448). The inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā know how many Buddhas will be born in any particular kappa by observing the number of lotuses which spring up on the site of the Bodhipallaṅka when the earth gradually emerges after the destruction of the world (DN­a.ii.411). It is the Suddhāvāsā Brahmas who provide the four omens which lead to a Bodhisatta’s renunciation in his last lay life. See, e.g., DN­a.ii.455f.