Sugandha untranslated

Sugandha 01. Sugandha Thera. He belonged to a rich family of Sāvatthī. In the past he had smeared the Gandhakuṭi of Kassapa Buddha with costly sandalwood paste and had desired that he might be reborn with a fragrant body: therefore he, on the day of his birth, and his mother, while she carried him, filled the house with fragrance hence his name. When he grew up, he heard Mahā Sela Thera preach and entered the Saṅgha, attaining Arahant-ship in seven days.

In the time of Tissa Buddha he was a hunter. Tissa Buddha saw him, and, out of compassion for him, left his footprint where the hunter might see it. The hunter recognized the footprint as that of a Great Being and offered to it karaṇḍaka-flowers (Thag.vs.24; Thag­a.i.80f).

He is probably identical with Karaṇḍapupphiya Thera of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.434; the same verses occur at Ap.ii.383; cf. Thag­a.i.270; i.405, where they are found under Subhūti.

Sugandha 02. A Khattiya of thirty-one kappas ago, a former birth of Atuma (Gandhodakiya) Thera. Thag­a.i.162; Ap.i.158.

Sugandha 03. Sugandha Thera. In the past he had been a seṭṭhiputta of Benares and had joined the Saṅgha under Kassapa Buddha, becoming famous as a preacher. After death he was born in Tusita, and in this life was born among men, with a fragrant body hence his name. He entered the Saṅgha and became an Arahant. Ap.ii.459-63.