• Kondañña

1. Kondañña.-The second of the twenty-four Buddhas.

• After sixteen asankheyya and one hundred thousand kappas of pāramī,
• he was born in Rammavatī,
• his father being King Sunanda and his mother Sujātā.
• He belonged to the Kondaññagotta and
• his body was twenty-eight cubits in height.
• For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces - Ruci, Suruci and Subha (Rāma, Surāmā and Subha, according to BuA);
• his chief wife was Rucidevī and his son Vījitasena.
• He left home in a chariot,
• practised austerities for ten months and
• was given a meal of milk-rice by Yasodharā,
• daughter of a merchant in Sunanda, and
• grass for his seat by the ājīvaka Sunanda.
• His bodhi was a Sālakalyāni tree, and
• his first sermon was preached to ten crores of monks in the Devavana near Amaravatī.
• He held three assemblies of his disciples, the first led by Subhadda, the second by Vijitasena and the third by Udena, all of whom had become arahants.
• He died at the age of one hundred thousand at Candārāmā, and
• the thūpa erected over his relics was seven leagues in height.
• His chief disciples were Bhadda and Subhadda among monks,
• and Tissā and Upatissā among nuns,
• his constant attendant being Anuruddha.
• His chief patrons were Sona and Upasona among laymen and Nandā and Sirimā among laywomen.

The Bodhisatta was a king, Vijitāvī of Candavatī. He left his kingdom, joined the Order and was later reborn in the Brahma-world. Bu.iii.; BuA.107ff; J.i.30.

2. Kondañña.-The name of a gotta.

It was evidently common to both brahmans and khattiyas, for we find the brahman Aññāta-Kondañña belonging to it, and elsewhere (E.g., VibbA.464) it is mentioned as a khattiyagotta.

Among those mentioned as belonging to the Kondañña-gotta are:

• Buddha Kondañña (brahmin),
• Candakumāra (J.vi.137, 138) (khattiya),
• Sarabhanga (J.v.140,141, 142) (brahmin),
• the three Buddhas Vipassī, Sikhī and Vessabhū, all khattiyas (D.ii.3ff, see table in Dial.16).

In the Kacchapa Jātaka (J.ii.360f) it is said that tortoises are of the Kassapa-gotta and monkeys of the Kondañña-gotta, and that between these two classes there is intermarriage. 

3. Kondañña.-The name of the apprentice in the Vārunī Jātaka.

4. Kondañña.-See also Aññāta-Kondañña, Vimala-Kondañña and Khānu-Kondañña.