He was born in Hamsavatī. He lived for ten thousand years in three palaces: Naravāhana, Yassa (or Yasavatī) and Vasavatti. His wife was Vasudattā, by whom he had a son, Uttara. His body was fifty-eight
cubits (around ) high. He practiced
asceticism for seven days. He died in Nandārāma at the age of one hundred thousand, and a
stūpa twelve
leagues in height was erected over his relics. His life parallels that of
Gautama Buddha except that he was assisted by different people and his
bodhi tree was a
sarala (
Dipterocarpus zeylanicus) in Theravada buddhism. Many of Gautama Buddha's disciples were said to have made their aspiration for eminent positions in the time of Padumuttara. In the
Apadāna some gods wish to build a stūpa of their own over the relics of Padumuttara. As a
Tathāgata his relics were not separated. Dīpankara attained Nirvāṇa in
Nandārāma, where a stūpa was built which was thirty-six
yojanas high. ==The Buddha and the Lotus==