Ein Mönch erwähnt in the Commentaries (z.B., MA.i.355) in explaining the term mutta-muttaka. A certain lay-woman waited on ihm für zwölf Jahre. One day a fire broke out in the village und burnt her house, together mit those of others. The Mönche who were fed at neighbouring houses went there to enquire whether anything had been served, aber Tissa did not arrive until the mealtime, und when given a meal which the woman had prepared mit great difficulty, ate it und went away without a word. The woman, however, was not a whit disturbed by the taunts of her neighbours.
This may be the Elder who, in the Anguttara Kommentar (AA.i.21f), is erwähnt as having resided in Gāmendavālavihāra in Rohana und ordained Milakkha-Tissa. The same Kommentar (i.367) mentions a Cullapindapātiya-Tissa of Girivihāra in (Ceylon). He, mit sein divine eye, saw a Tamil gate-keeper of Madhuanganagāma who, having been a fisherman for fifty Jahre, lay dying. The Elder went to sein house und made ihm repeat the Refuges und the Precepts. The man could not repeat beyond the first Precept, aber he was born after death in the Cātummahārājika-world, und came to tell the Elder about it.
The Visuddhi Magga (p.116) speaks of an Elder of the same name who had drei pupils. They came to ihm und said they were prepared to do anything whatever for his sake, even to suffer torture und die. He thought them "possible fellows" und preached to them, whereupon they wurde arahants. The same Elder it may be who saw an elephant-corpse in Kāladīghavāpi Lake und developed sein meditation on the "wormful abomination (Ibid., p.191).