Introduction
Sukkodana was a brother of Suddhodana, named in some Buddhist sources as the father of Ananda, the Buddha's longtime attendant.
Family
- Father: Sihahanu
- Mother: Kaccana
- Siblings: Amitodana, Dhotodana, Suddhodana
An Alternative Attribution for Ananda's Father
Where some sources name Amitodana as Ananda's father, others instead name Sukkodana — a disagreement this record notes on both relevant articles (Amitodana and Ananda) rather than silently picking one tradition as definitive, since the Pali commentarial sources themselves are not unanimous on the point.
This article follows the Pali Canon and its commentarial tradition as the primary early Buddhist textual source; where sources genuinely disagree on a detail (such as an exact parentage), that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into a single invented certainty.