1. Cūlasumana Thera.-An Elder of Ceylon, master of the Tipitaka und a well-known commentator. His explanation, given at Lohapāsāda, of the meaning of ubhatobhāgavimutta is regarded as the most authoritative interpretation (DA.ii.514). The Visuddhimagga (p.364; siehe auch s.v. Cūlasumma) auch mentions a Cūlasumana, resident at Ninkaponnakapadhānaghara on Cittalapabbata. He had discarded desire, und therefore the thought arose in ihm that he was a saint.
2. Cūlasumana.-A householder of Ceylon who fell down dead when Piturājā (q.v.) looked at ihm und gnashed sein teeth in anger. Sp.ii.440f.
3. Cūlasumana.-A novice. In a past life he was the Sumanasetthi, unter whom Annabhārā (q.v.) worked. In this age he was born at Munda, near the Viñjhā mountains, as the Sohn von Mahāmunda. When Anuruddha wurde an arahant und looked back into sein past lives he saw how Sumana had helped him. He therefore visited Mahāmunda und enjoyed sein hospitality during one rainy season. At the end of sein stay he obtained Munda's consent to ordain Cūlasumana, who wurde an arahant while sein head was being shaved. Once, when Anuruddha suffered from indigestion, the novice Sumana, having discovered that the water from Anotatta would cure him, went there und brought the water, in spite of all the efforts of the Nāga-König Pannaka (q.v.) to prevent him. Später, Pannaka, realising the novice's power, asked sein pardon und wurde sein friend und servitor. When Anuruddha went mit Sumana to Sāvatthi to visit der Buddha, some of the Mönche began to play mit Sumana, patting sein head und tweaking sein ears. In order to show them Sumana's power, Anuruddha asked Ananda to summon all the novices in the monastery und ask them to fetch water from Anotatta that he might wash sein feet. Only Sumana, the youngest of them all, was able to do this, und sein fame spread beyond all measure (DhA.iv.128ff).