Gautama Buddha
deity sky Sinhalese Buddhists single tradition · 3
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #744 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- In Sinhalese Buddhist tradition, Kannagi is revered as an avatar of Gautama Buddha and was anointed as a guardian god by him.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Kataragama, Natha, Nāgas, Vishnu
- manifests as
- Kannagi
- child of
- Queen Māyā of Sakya
- enemy of
- Devaputra-māra, Mara
- served by
- Preah Thorani, Earth Goddess
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“The Sinhalese Buddhists worship Kannagi as Pattini. The story of Kannagi differs from Cilappatikāram and she is revered as an avatar of Gautama Buddha...she was later anointed as a guardian god by the Buddha.”
#31069 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to Buddhist texts, after Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, his cremated remains were divided and distributed among the princes of eight of the sixteen mahājanapadās. According to Mahavamsa, when Ashoka reached the Ramagrama stupa, he encountered a powerful Nāga”
#35154 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001