- Ababa Niraya
- Abbha Sutta. Thunder clouds arise sometimes because
the Abbhāva-lāhaka devas
wish to give joy to their bodies.
- Abbhāhata Sutta. The world
is persecuted by death, age, decay and craving.
S. i.40. The verses appear
also in the story of Sirimanda
- Abbhahattha. See Ambahattha.
- Abbhantara Jātaka
- Abbhantara Vagga. The fourth division of the Tikā
Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā.
- Abbhokāsa Sutta. The five kinds of those who seek
- Abbhuta (Dhamma) Sutta
- Abbuda 1. A period of suffering in
Avīci. For details see
- Abbuda 2. A king of long ago; a former birth of Nigganthipupphiya
- Ābhā Sutta
- Ābha Vagga
- Ābha. A generic name for devas distinguished for
their brilliance, such as the
Parittābhā and the
- Abhabba Sutta 1. Various events and the conditions
requisite for their presence.
- Abhabba Sutta 2. The ten conditions essential for
- Abhaya Sutta. On what fearlessness means.
- Abhayācala. Another name for
- Abhayagallaka. A vihāra in Ceylon built by King
- Abhayagirikā. The monks of the
summary of their heresies is given at
- Abhayankara. One of the royal elephants of King
- Abhayasamāna Sutta. Preached to
Jānussoni on those who have
no fear when death comes to them.
- Abhayattherī. See Abhayā.
- Abhaya-Vihāra. Another name for
- Abhayupassaya. A nunnery; see
- Abhayuttara. A name for
- Abhayūvara. The name of the eighth bhānavāra (portion
for recitation) of the first Khandhaka of the
Mahāvagga of the
- Abhibhū (Sutta)
- Abhibhuyya Sutta
- Abhidhamma Pitaka
- Abhidhammapannarasatthāna. A treatise by Nava
Bode, op. cit., 27-8.
- Abhidhammattha-vikāsinī. A tīkā on Buddhadatta's
written by Sumangala.
- Abhijāna Sutta. See
- Abhimārapayojanā. Name given to the conspiracy into
which Devadatta and
Ajātasattu entered, to have
archers shoot at the Buddha and
so kill him (J.i.141; vi.130f.; DA.i.154).
- Abhinandamāna Sutta. One who is enamoured of body,
etc., becomes Mara's bondsman;
by not being enamoured one becomes free.
- Abhinandana Sutta. He who takes delight in any or
all of the five khandhas takes delight in suffering; he who
does not is released there from.
- Abhinandena Sutta (2). By taking delight in the eye,
ear, etc., one takes delight in Ill; by not so doing one is
released from Ill. Similarly with regard to sights, sounds,
etc. S. iv.13.
- Abhinha Jātaka (No.
- Abhinīhāra Sutta
- Abhinivesa Sutta. Bondage of and dependence upon
the fetters arise as a result of clinging to the five
- Abhiñjika Thera
- Abhiññā Sutta 1. On higher knowledge and its applications.
- Abhīññā Sutta 2. A group of suttas on qualities that
could be obtained by an understanding of raga (lust).
- Abhiññā Vagga. The twenty-sixth section of the Catukka
Nipāta of the Anguttara
Nikāya. It consists of ten suttas.
- Abhiññāpariññeyya Sutta. Everything should be known
and comprehended as impermanent, woeful, void of self.
- Abhiññeyya Sutta. Same as above.
- Abhirādhana. A friend of
Sambhūta Sītavaniya. He went
with Sambhūta, Bhūmija and
Jeyyasena to hear the
- Abhirāmā. One of the three palaces occupied, as a
layman, by Nārada Buddha (Bu.x.19).
- Abhisāma. A king of fifteen
kappas ago; a previous birth of
- Abhisamaya Kathā. The third chapter of the Paññā
Vagga of the Patisambhidā-Magga
- Abhisamaya Samyutta. The thirteenth Samyutta, forming
the second section of the Nidāna Vagga of the
Samyutta Nikāya (ii.133ff).
- Abhisamaya Vagga. The sixth chapter of the Sacca
Samyutta of the Samyutta
- Abhisammata. A king of sixty-three kappas ago; a
previous birth of Pātalipupphiya Thera.
- Abhisanda Sutta
- Abhītatta. See Ajitajana.
- Abhivaddhamānaka. See
- Abhiya Kaccāna. See Sabhiya
- Acala. Assistant to the architect of the
- Acala Cetiya. The name given to the spot at the entrance
to Sankassa, where the
Buddha first placed his right
foot on his descent from Tāvatimsa.
DhA.iii.227 (but see
- Acala-Thera. One of the eminent monks present at
the foundation of the Mahā Thūpa.
- Ācāravitthigāma. A village three leagues to the north-east
of Anurādhapura. When
Dutthagāmani was seeking
for materials for the building of the
Mahā Thūpa, nuggets of gold,
from a span to a finger's breadth in size, appeared in the village.
- Acarin Sutta. The Buddha,
as he walked about, sought the satisfaction, the misery and
the escape that come from the earth element. He found these
and discovered that they exist also in the other three elements.
- Accaya (akodhana) Sutta. Speaks
of two kinds of fools - the one who does not see his offence
as such, and the other who does not accept a right ruling.
- Accāyika Sutta. The urgent duties of a farmer and
of a monk. A.i.239-40.
- Accenti Sutta. The hours pass away, be heedful therefore.
- Acchagiri. See Acchagallaka.
- Accharā Sutta
- Acchariya Sutta
(or Acchariyadhamma) Sutta
- Acchimatī. One of the five daughters of
Vessavana. She was married
Latā was her sister.
- Accutadevā. A class of devas mentioned among those
assembled on the occasion of the preaching of the
- Accutagāmabyāmaka. One of the Pacceka Buddhas in
a nominal list. M.iii.70.
- Accutagāmī. One of Vijaya's companions in colonising
Ceylon. He founded a settlement at
Ujjeni 2 (Dpv.ix.32,
36). The Mahāvamsa (Dpv.vii.45)
mentions the founding of Ujjeni 2, but does not give Accutāgamī's
- Accutavarnadanta. One of
J. vi.135. But see Jāt.
- Acela Sutta
- Acelaka Vagga. Fifth of the Pācittiya of the
- Acintita Sutta. The four unthinkables: the Buddhas,
their musings, world-speculation and the point of action.
- Adalidda Sutta. The rich man is he who possesses
the seven bojjhangā.
- Adanta Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Eka Nipāta
of the Anguttara Nikāya.
It consists of ten suttas on the untamed mind.
- Ādāsānandapa. One of the numerous buildings erected
by Parakkamabāhu I. in the Dīpuyyāna in Pulatthipura. It was
so called because its walls were made of mirrors.
- Adassanā Sutta (five). Diverse opinions arise in
the world because of the failure to see the five
sankhārā, their nature,
etc. S. iii.260.
- Addha Sutta (2). That Ariyan disciple is wealthy
who possesses four things: unwavering loyalty to the Buddha,
the Dhamma and the Sangha, and virtues held in esteem by the
Ariyans. S. v.402.
- Addha Vagga. The seventh chapter of the Devatā Samyutta
of the Samyutta Nikāya
(S.i.39-41). The Samyutta
See also KS.i.54, n.4)
calls it Anvavagga.
- Addha Vagga. Third section
of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary.
- Addhabhūta Sutta. Preached
in the Kalandakanivāpa
at Veluvana. Everything is
afflicted: eye, objects, eye-consciousness, etc. (Andhabhūta).
- Addhacandiya Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth
he gave Tissa Buddha a bouquet of flowers in the shape of a
crescent moon. He was once a king named Devapa.
- Addhacelaka Thera. In a previous birth he gave half
a garment to Tissa Buddha. He was thirty-two times king, under
the names of Samanta and Odana. He became an arahant.
- Addhakāsī Therī
- Addhariyā-brāhmanā. The word occurs in a list of
brahmin teachers in the Tevijja
Sutta (D.i.237). They
teach a state of union with Brahmā. These are evidently Adhvaryu
- Addhuvasīla. A youth who stole ornaments to win the
daughter of his teacher. He failed in his quest. The story is
given in the
- Addilarattha. A kingdom where once lived a poor man
named Kotūhalaka, who, in the present age, became Ghosita-setthi.
Food being very scarce in the country, Kotūhalaka and his family
left it. DA.i.317;
- Adhamma Sutta. Three suttas describing dhamma and
adhamma and their different qualities (A.v.222ff).
In the last Ananda explains in detail what the Buddha taught
to the monks in brief.
- Adhamma Vagga. The tenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta
of the Anguttara Nikāya
(A.i.16-19). It consists
of forty-two suttas, dealing chiefly with the harm that arises
from monks describing what is not Dhamma as Dhamma and vice
- Adhammika Sutta. The evils resulting from the unrighteousness
of kings and the benefits of their righteousness.
- Adhanapāli. Given as an example of a name.
- Ādhāradāyaka Thera. An arahant. He gave a stool (ādhāraka)
to Sikhī Buddha. Twenty-seven
kappas ago he became king four times under the name of Samantavaruna.
- Adharatteri. A district in
- Adhicchattiya Thera. An
arahant. In a previous birth he placed a parasol on the thūpa
containing the relics of Atthadassī
He is evidently identical with
- Adhicitta Sutta. The qualities necessary for the
monk developing higher consciousness.
A.ii.256f. It is quoted
in the Vibhanga Commentary, 229 f.
- Adhigama Sutta. On the qualities requisite for acquiring
good states and for fostering them.
- Adhikakkā. A ford, evidently
a well-known bathing-ghat, where pilgrims used to bathe in order
to obtain purification from their sins. It is mentioned in a
list of rivers and ghats.
- Adhikarana Vagga
- Adhikaranasamatha Vagga. One of the divisions of
the Suttavibhanga on the procedure for settling disputes.
- Ādhipateyya Sutta. The three "mandates" which should
guide a monk: the self, the world, the Dhamma.
A.i.147f.; on the significance
of the sutta see Mrs. Rhys Davids,
April 1933, pp.329ff.
- Adhoganga. See
- Adhokurangāma. A village in the district of Alisāra
in North Ceylon; a fortification there of Gajabāhu was captured
by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.171.
- Adhopupphiya Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth
he was a hermit of great power in Himavā and offered flowers
to Abhibhū, the chief disciple of Sikhī Buddha. Soon afterwards
he was eaten up by a boa-constrictor.
- Ādicca Damilādhikāri
- Ādicca Sutta. Just as dawn is the harbinger of the
arising of the sun, so is friendship with the good (kalyānamittatā)
the harbinger of the arising of the seven
S. v.101; cp.
Jātaka. (No. 175)
- Ādimalaya. One of the generals of Vijayabāhu I. He
openly rebelled against the king and came with his troops to
the village of Andu, near Pulatthipura. The king went out against
him and destroyed him. Cv.lix.4-6.
- Adīnasattu. See Alīnasattu.
- Adinna Sutta. Few are they that abstain from taking
what is not given. S.
- Ādipādakajambu. A locality in Ceylon where the Ādipāda
Vikkamabāhu defeated Mānābharana and his brothers.
- Ādipāda-punnāga-khanda. A locality in Rohana in the
south of Ceylon. It was in the district of Guttasāla. Here an
encounter took place between the forces of Parakkamabāhu I.
and those of the rebels in Rohana.
- Aditi. Mother of the sun, who is called
Ādicca, which is explained as Aditiyā
- Āditta Jātaka (No. 424)
- Āditta Sutta/Vagga
- Ādittapariyāya Sutta
- Ādittena Sutta
- Ādiya Sutta
- Adukkhamasukhi Sutta. A group of twenty-six suttantas,
dealing with various heresies regarding the soul.
- Agada. Cakkavatti,
sixteen times in succession;
Subāhu Thera in a previous birth.
- Agahya Sutta. Devas and men delight in objects, sounds,
etc., but, through the instability of these, they live in sorrow.
- Āgantuka Sutta
- Āgāra Sutta. Like a guest-house to dwell in which
come folk from all quarters, noblemen and brahmins, commoners
and serfs, so, in the body, divers feelings arise, pleasant,
painful and neutral, carnal (sāmisa) and non-carnal.
- Agārava Sutta
- Agāriya Vimāna. A palace in the
Tāvatimsa world, occupied
by a couple who, as humans in Rājagaha,
had done many deeds of piety.
- Agati Sutta. Three discourses on agati and gati -
here defined as wrong action done under the influence of desire,
hate or delusion and its opposite, right action.
- Aggabodhi-padhāna-ghara. A building erected by Aggabodhi
IV. for the use of the Thera Dāthāsiva. Several villages were
made over for its maintenance.
- Aggabodhi-parivena. A building belonging to the Jetavanārāma
of Anurādhapura and erected
by Potthasāta, general of Aggabodhi IV.
- Aggadhamma Sutta. On the six qualities requisite
for the attainment of arahantship, which is the highest state
- Aggadhanuggaha-pandita. See Cūla Dhº.
- Aggalapura. A city where
Revata went on his way from
Sahajāti, prior to the Council
- Aggālava Cetiya
- Aggāni Sutta. The four perfections: of virtue, concentration,
wisdom and release. A.ii.79;
see GS.ii.88, n.2.
- Aggañña Sutta
- Aggappasāda Sutta
- Aggapupphiya Thera. One of the arahants. In a previous
birth he had offered flowers, from the top of a tree, to
Sikhī, hence the name. In later
birth he was a Cakkavatti named Amita.
- Aggasāvaka Vatthu. The chronicle of
- Aggavatī Parisā Sutta. On the three kinds of companies:
the distinguished, the discordant and the harmonious.
- Aggi Sutta
- Aggibrahmā. Nephew of Asoka
and husband of Sanghamittā.
He entered the Order on the same day as Tissakumāra, Asoka's
- Aggika Jātaka (No.
- Aggika Sutta
- Aggika-Bhāradvāja Sutta. Another name for the
- Aggimāla (Aggimāli). A mythological sea, which stands
like a blazing bonfire and is filled with gold (J.iv.139-40).
It is one of the seas crossed by the merchants mentioned in
the Suppāraka Jātaka.
- Aggimittā. One of the nuns who accompanied
Sanghamittā to Ceylon.
Dpv. xv.78; xviii.11.
- Aggimukha. A species of snake; bodies bitten by them
grow hot. DhsA.300; Vsm.368.
- Agginibbāpaka.-(v.l. Agginibbāpana), a
Cakka-vatti of eighty-six
kalpas ago; a previous birth of
Mānava Thera (ThagA.ii.162f),
also called (in the Apadāna i.158-9)
- Aggisāma. See Abhisāma.
- Aggisama. The Thera
Pupphathūpiya was born
sixteen times in succession as
Cakka-vatti and ruled under this name.
- Aggisikha. The name borne by the Thera
Gatasaññaka when in previous
births he was Cakka-vatti
three times in succession.
- Aggismim Sutta. The five evil qualities of fire.
Aggivacchagotta Sutta. (Aggivaccha Sutta)
A tank made by King Vasabha of Ceylon (Abhi°).
- Aggivessa. One of the guards of King Eleyya (A.ii.181).
Is this a gotta name? (See below.)
- Aghamūla Sutta. On the root of pain.
- Āghāta Sutta 1. On nine things which cause enmity
to be born. A.iv.408.
- Āghāta Sutta 2.On the nine ways of getting rid of
feelings of enmity. A.iv.408-9.
- Āghāta Vagga. The seventeenth chapter of the Pancaka
Nipāta of the Anguttara
Nikāya. It contains ten suttas on various topics, including
a dispute between Sāriputta and Udāyi (A.iii.185-202).
- Āghātavinaya Sutta
- Ahaha. One of the purgatories mentioned in the Sutta-Nipāta
list (p.126). It is the name given to a period of suffering
in Avīci and is equivalent in
duration to twenty Ababā
- Āhāra Sutta
- Ahidīpa. The old name for Kāradīpa, near Nāgadīpa.
Akitti spent some time there.
- Ahigundika Jātaka
- Ahimsaka Bhāradvāja
- Ahimsaka Sutta. Records the interview between the
Buddha and Ahimsaka Bhāradvāja
- Ahimsaka. The earlier name of
- Ahināga. Dr. A.
K. Coomaraswamy suggests that the word "Ahināga," appearing
in Vinaya (i.25), is a proper name, like Ahicchatta. For a discussion
see JAOS. vol. 55, 391-392 (notes).
- Ahinda Sutta
- Ahirika Sutta
- Ahirikamūlakā cattāro Sutta. Four suttas based on
the fact that like coalesces with like, the shameless with the
shameless, etc. S. ii.162f.
- Āhuneyya Sutta/Vagga
- Ajacca. One of the disciples mentioned in the
Jātaka as having tried to win their teacher's daughter and failed.
- Ajajjara Sutta. See Ajara Sutta (see below).
- Ājāni Sutta
- Ājāniya Sutta. Three discourses identical, in the
main, with the Ājañña Sutta (1),
but the fourth quality (good proportions) is omitted. The suttas
differ from one another in the definition of "speed" in the
case of the monk. A.i.244.
- Ājañña Jātaka (No. 24)
- Ājañña Sutta
- Ajapāla. Son of the chaplain of King
Esukārī. He renounced the world
with his three elder brothers. He was Anuruddha in the present
- Ajara Sutta. The Buddha teaches the undecaying and
the path thereto (Ajajjara).
- Ajarasā Sutta. Preached to a deva in praise of wisdom.
- Ajelaka-Sutta. Many are those who do not abstain
from accepting goats and sheep.
- Ajinadāyaka. A Thera who later became arahant. He
gave a piece of antelope skin to Sikhī Buddha. Five kappas ago
he was a Cakka-vatti, Sudāyaka.
- Ajitajana. A king of the
race of Mahāsammata. His
descendants reigned in Kapilapura.
Dpv. iii.17 calls him
- Ajitañjaya. King of
Ketumati. He was a previous
birth of Todeyya Thera.
- Ajitapuccha or Ajitapañhā. Second sutta of
the Parāyanavagga of the Sutta
Nipāta. See Ajita-(mānava).
- Ajitarattha (Addika- or Addila-rattha). The country
in which the setthi Ghosita
was born, in a previous life, as a poor man named Kotūhalaka.
- Ājīvaka Sutta
- Ajivaka. Given as a possible name.
- Ajjhattikanga Sutta. The name given in the Sutta
Sangaha (No. 77) to a sutta of the Itivuttaka on the virtues
of yoniso-manasikāra. Itv.9f.
- Ajjhohāra. One of the six huge mythical fishes of
the Great Ocean. It was five hundred yojanas in length and lived
on the fungi that grow on rocks.
- Ajjuhattha-pabbata. See Ambahattha-pabbata (??).
- Ajjunapupphiya Thera. Probably identical with Sambhūta
- Akalanka. A Cola officer who fought against the Singhalese
army of Parakkamabāhu I. during the latter's invasion of the
Pandu kingdom. Cv.lxxvii.17,
55, 80, 90.
- Akālarāvi Jātaka
- Akanitthā devā
- Ākankha Vagga
- Ākankheyya Sutta
- Akarabhanda. A village in Ceylon dedicated by King
Kittisirirājasīha to the Tooth-relic.
- Ākāsa Sutta
- Ākāsagotta. See Sañjaya-Akāsagotta.
- Ākāsagotta. A physician of Rājagaha who lanced the
fistula of a monk. Meeting the Buddha, he told him of the lancing,
trying to make fun of it. The Buddha, having made inquiries,
declared the performance of such an operation a thullaccaya
- Ākāsukkhipiya Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth
he had offered a lotus flower to the Buddha Siddhattha and had
thrown another up into the sky above him. Thirty-two kappas
ago he was a king named Antalikkhacara.
- Akataññu Jātaka
- Akatti. See Akitti.
- Akatuññatā Sutta 1. One who is of bad conduct in
deed, word and thought, and is ungrateful; is born in purgatory.
- Akatuññatā Sutta 2. Same as above.
- Akhilā. Chief woman disciple of
Sikhī (Bu.xxi.21); the Commentary
calls her Makhilā. BuA.204;
also J. i.41.
- Ākiñcañña Sutta
- Ākiñcāyatanūpagā-devā. A class of devas born in the
ākiñcāyatana, the third Arūpa world (M.iii.103).
Their life term is sixty thousand kappas.
- Akitti (v.l. Akatti)
- Akitti Jātaka (No.
- Akitti-dvāra. The gate through which
Akitti left the city.
- Akitti-tittha. The ford by which
Akitti crossed the river after
he left Benāres. J. iv.237.
- Akkamanīya Sutta. The uncultivated mind is an intractable
thing and conduces to great loss; the cultivated mind has the
opposite qualities. A.i.5f.
- Akkamanīya Vagga. The third section of the Eka Nipāta
of the Anguttara Nikāya.
- Akkantasaññaka Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth
he gave his ragged garment to the Buddha Tissa. Once he was
born as a king named Sunanda.
- Akkhakhanda. A section of the Vidhurajātaka which
deals with events leading up to the surrendering of
Vidhura by the king, when the
latter lost his wager with Punnaka.
- Akkhama Sutta. The qualities which an elephant used
by the king should have and similar qualities that should be
possessed by a monk. A.iii.157f.
- Akkhana Sutta. On the eight inopportune occasions
for the living of the higher life.
- Akkhana-Kosa. See
- Akkhanti Sutta 1. The five evil results of the want
of forbearance. A.iii.254.
- Akkhanti Sutta 2. The same as above with slight variations
in detail. A.iii.255.
- Akkharamālā. A short treatise in Pāli stanzas on
the Pāli and Singhalese alphabets, by Nāgasena, a Ceylon scholar
of the eighteenth century.
- Akkharavisodhanī. A late Pali work written in Burma.
- Akkosa Sutta/Vagga
- Akkosaka Bhāradvāja Vatthu. The story of
- Akkosaka Vagga. The twenty-second section of the
Pāñcakanipāta of the Anguttara
- Akodha-avihimsā Sutta.On mildness
and kindness, the verses being put into the mouth of Sakka.
- Akodhana Sutta.See Accaya-akodhana
- Akusala Sutta. The man who is sinful in action of
body, speech and mind is born in purgatory.
- Akusaladhamma Sutta. On the unprofitable and profitable
states. S. v.18.
- Akusalamūla Sutta. On the three roots of demerit:
greed, malice and delusion.
- Alagaddūpama Sutta
- Alagvānagiri. A locality in South India, captured
by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I.
- Alakā. The town of the god Kubera (Cv.lxxiv.207;
lxxx.5), evidently another name for
- Alakhiya-rāyara. One of the Tamil generals who fought
on the side of Kulasekhara against Parakkamabāhu I.
- Alakkhī. The goddess of Ill-luck. She delights in
men of evil deeds. J.
- Ālambagāma. A tank in Ceylon built by Jetthatissa.
- Ālambanadāyaka Thera. An arahant. In a past birth
he gave an Ālambana (prop?) to the Buddha
Atthadassī. Sixty kappas
ago he was born three times as king under the name of Ekāpassita.
- Alambusa Jātaka
- Alankāranissaya. A scholiast on Sangharakkhita's
Subodhālankāra, written by a Burmese monk in A.D. 1880.
Bode, op. cit., 95.
- Ālāra Kālāma
- Ālāra. See Alāra.
- Alasaka. The name of a disease, of which
Korakhattiya died (D.iii.7).
Rhys Davids translates it as "epilepsy" and suggests that its
name is a negative of lasikā, the synovial fluid.
- Alattūru. Name of two Tamil chiefs in the army of
Kulasekhara. They took part in various battles and were eventually
conquered by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I.
Cv.lxxvi.140, 184, 214,
217, 220, 305.
- Ālava Sutta. Records the conversation between the
Buddha and Ālavaka Yakkha (q.v.)
at Ālavi. S. i.213-15.
- Ālavaka (Sutta)
- Ālavakā (v.l. Ālavikā)
- Ālavaka-gajjita.- Mentioned in a list of works considered
by Buddhaghosa to be heretical.
- Ālavikā 1.See Ālavakā.
- Ālavikā 2. A nun. See Selā.
- Ālavikā Sutta. Contains the conversation between
ālavikā (Selā) and Mara which ended
in the latter's discomfiture.
- Āligāma. A stronghold in the
Ālisāra district on the banks of
the modern Ambanganga. Here Parakkamabāhu's forces fought a
decisive battle with those of Gajabāhu.
Cv.lxx.113ff, and Geiger's
note thereon in the Cv.Trs.i.296,
- Alīnacitta Jātaka
- Alīnacitta. King of Benares; one of the lives of
the Bodhisatta. He was so-called ("Win-heart") because he was
born to win the hearts of the people. He was consecrated king
at the age of seven. His story is related in the
- Ālindaka. Probably the name of a monastery in Ceylon
where lived the thera Mahā Phussadeva.
- Āloka Sutta. There are four lights: of the moon,
the sun, of fire and of wisdom, the light of wisdom being the
- Alomā (Alonā?)
- Āluvadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas
ago he gave an Āluva (fruit?) to the Pacceka Buddha Sudassana,
near Himavā. Ap.i.237.
- Amabavitthi. A village in the north of Ceylon. It
was the birthplace of Culatissa Thera. Ras.ii.30.
- Amaccharī Sutta. A woman should not be stingy and
she should be wise. S.
- Amadha. See Damatha.
- Āmagandha (Sutta)
- Āmakadhañña-peyyala. The ninth chapter of the Sacca
Samyutta of the Samyutta
Nikāya. It contains a list of the gifts which Ariyan monks
abstain from accepting. S.
- Āmalacetiya. A thupa in Ceylon. It is not known who
built it. Aggabodhi I. erected a parasol over it.
- Āmalakīvana, Amalakivana.
A grove at Cātumā. The Buddha
once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the
Cātuma Sutta was preached.
- Āmandagāmanī Abhaya
- Āmandaphaladāyaka Thera. An arahant. In a previous
birth, while carrying a pingo laden with fruit, he saw the Buddha
Padumuttara and offered him an Āmanda fruit (pumpkin?). In the
present age he became an arahant.
- Amarā (Amarādevī)
- Amarinda. Name given to
Sakka, king of the gods. E.g.,
- Amaruppala. The name borne by
he was a hunter in a village near Amaruppala-lena. Ras.ii.56.
- Amaruppala-lena. A cave in the Malaya province of
was once born in a hunters' village near it. Ras.ii.56.
- Amata (Sutta / Vagga)
- Amatadundubhi. One of the names under which the
Bahudhātuka Sutta is
known (M.iii.67). Like
soldiers in the field of battle, so the disciples in the path,
developing insight after the method of this sutta, raise aloft
the standard of Arahantship - hence the name.
- Amba Jātaka (No.
- Amba Sutta. The four kinds of mangoes (ripe, etc.)
and four corresponding classes of monks.
- Ambacora Jātaka
- Ambadāyaka Thera
- Ambadugga. A tank in Ceylon, built by Kutakannatissa.
- Ambakhādaka-Mahātissa. See
- Ambala. Probably the name of a tower in the
Jetavana monastery. The
Sunakha Jātaka was preached
there about a dog who lived in its resting-hall (J.ii.246).
- Ambalala. A locality in Rohana, near the Kantakavana,
where the forces of Parakkamabāhu I., under Rakkha, were victorious
in battle. Cv.lxxiv.58.
- Ambālavana. See
- Ambālavāpi. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxviii.46)
A canal known as Tambapannī flowed from the tank northwards.
- Ambamāla Vihāra. A monastery in Rohana built by Dappula
- Ambapālī (Ambapālikā)
- Ambapāli Sutta
- Ambapāli Vagga. The first chapter of the Satipatthāna
Samyutta in the Mahāvagga of the
Samyutta Nikāya (S.v.141-8).
- Ambapāsāna. A monastery in the village of Anganakola
in South Ceylon, where lived the Elder Cittagutta.
- Ambapindiya Thera
- Ambara-Ambaravatī. The double name of a city in
- Ambaramsa. See Abbhasa.
- Ambariya Vihara. A monastery in Ceylon, the residence
of Pingala-Buddharakkhita Thera. It was near
It was also the residence of Pindapātika-Tissa Thera.
- Ambasakkharapeta Vatthu. The story of
the peta, as given above. The Elder
Kappitaka related the story
to the Buddha, and the Buddha made it an occasion for a discourse
to the assembled multitude.
- Ambasāmanera. Name of
Silākāla. When he was a novice
in the Order, at Bodhimanda Vihāra, he fulfilled his duties
to the community with zeal and skill. Once he presented a mango-fruit
to the Sangha, and the monks, being pleased, gave him this name.
- Ambasuppiya. See Appihā.
- Ambātaka Thera. An arahant. Fourteen kappas ago he
had given a mango to a Buddha (Ap.ii.394).
He is probably identical with Rājadatta Thera.
- Ambātakiya Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago
he had met the Buddha Vessabhū in the mountains and given him
a mango. Ap.ii.399.
- Ambattha Sutta
- Ambatthaja. Seventy kappas ago there were fourteen
kings of this name, all former lives of
- Ambavāpi. A tank at Būkakalla in Ceylon. It was given
over to the Mātambiya-padhānaghara by the Tamil, Potthakuttha.
- Ambavāsavāpi. One of the tanks restored by Parakkamabāhu
I. before his great war.
Cv.lxviii.43. For identification see Cv. trans. i.280, n.5.
- Ambayāgadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-one kappas
ago, going to the forest in pursuit of his trade, he met the
Buddha and gave him an offering of mangoes (v.l. Appaº).
- Ambayāgu(yāga ?)-dāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-four
kappas ago he had met a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsī, when
the latter had just awakened from samādhi, and had given him
a broth (?) made of mangoes (Ap.i.284).
- Ambilahāra Vihāra
- Ambila-janapada. A district in Ceylon. In it was
the Rajatalena. MT.400.
- Ambilāpika. A village given by Jetthatissa III. for
the supply of food to Kassapagirivihāra.
- Ambilayāgu. A village in Ceylon. It was the residence
of Dāthānāma, father of Dhātusena.
- Ambillapadara. A village given by Aggabodhi III.
to the Cetiyapabbata monastery.
- Ambutthi. A tank built by Upatissa II.
- Ambuyyāna. A monastery in Ceylon. Udaya I. (or Dappula)
built in it the dwelling-house Dappulapabbata.
Cv.xlix.30; trs. i.126
n.1. According to Cv.l.80,
it was built not by the king but by Mahādeva. It was finished
later by Sena I. Cv.l.80.
- Āmisakiñcikkha Sutta. One
of the suttas in a group of eight, dealing with people who will
not lie for the sake of gain - and, in this case, for the sake
of anything worldly whatsoever.
- Amita. A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous
birth of Aggapupphiya Thera (v.l. Amitobhava, Amitogata).
- Amitābha. A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous
birth of Ekasaññaka Thera.
- Amitabhogā. Five setthīs in Bimbisāra's dominions,
whose wealth was limitless. They were
AA.i.220; for details
- Amitañjala. A king of fourteen
kappas ago; a previous birth of Sālapupphiya Thera (v.l. Asitañjala).
- Amitobhava. See Amita.
- Amitta. See Somamitta.
- Amittabhā. A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a former
life of Bhojanadāyaka Thera (v.l. Amittaka).
- Amittaka. See Amittabhā.
- Amittatāpana. A king of seventeen kappas ago; a previous
life of Pavittha Thera (ThagA.ii.185),
probably to be identified with Ekadamsaniya of the Apadāna (i.168).
- Amoraphaliya Thera
Jātaka (No. 65, 185)
- Anabhirati Sutta. The idea of distaste for all the
world, if cultivated, is fruitful.
- Anabhisamaya Sutta. Preached to the wanderer Vacchagotta.
Diverse opinions arise in the world through not seeing the nature
of the body, etc. S. iii.260.
- Anāgāmī Sutta. The six qualities necessary for the
third Fruit of the Path. A.iii.421.
- Anāgāmi-thera Vatthu. Story of a monk who became
anāgāmi; when asked by his pupils, however, he did not say anything
regarding his attainment. After death he was born in the Suddhāvāsā.
His pupils, grieving for him in their ignorance, were enlightened
by the Buddha. DhA.iii.288-9.
- Anāgata Sutta. The five kinds of anticipatory fears
that should make a forest-dwelling monk zealous and active.
- Ānaka (v.l. Ānnaka)
- Anālaya Sutta. The Buddha teaches the destruction
of attachment and the path leading thereto.
- Anamatagga Samyutta
- Ananaka Sutta. The four kinds of bliss possible to
a householder: a bliss of ownership, of wealth, of debtless
ness and of blamelessness.
- Ānañcāyatana Sutta. On the three infinite spheres:
infinite space, infinite consciousness, and sphere of nothingness.
- Ānanda Sutta/Vagga
- Ānandamānava. See Ānanda
- Ānandena Sutta. The Buddha is asked by Ananda to
tell him of a doctrine which would make him more ardent and
intent. The Buddha teaches him the doctrine of impermanence.
- Anangana Jātaka
- Anangana Sutta. A record of a conversation between
Sāriputta and Moggallāna on the nature of blemishes (anganāni)
and on the benefits of recognising and removing them.
- Ānañjasappāya Sutta
- Ānañjasappāya Sutta. See Ānañjasappāya Sutta.
- Ananta. The serpent king referred to under Anantapokkharanī,
but not elsewhere mentioned in the old books. He is also called
Anantabhoga. For details see Hopkins' Epic Mythology (pp. 23-4).
- Anantajālī. King. A previous birth of Bhājanadāyaka
fifty-three kappas ago (Antarajāli).
- Anantapokkharanī. A pond constructed by Parakkamabahu
I. in Pulatthipura. The steps surrounding the pond were laid
like the coils of the serpent-king Ananta.
- Anantarabhandaka-tittha. A ford in the Mahāvāluka-gangā
in Ceylon. Cv.lxxii.16.
- Anantarapeyyāla. One of the sections of the
- Anantavā Sutta. On the world as being unlimited.
- Ananusociya Jātaka
- Ananussuta Sutta. The five-fold power of a Tathāgata.
- Ānāpāna Kathā. The third section of the Mahāvagga
of the Patisambhidāmagga.
- Ānāpāna Samyutta. The fifty-fourth section of the
Samyutta Nikāya. S. v.311-41.
- Ānāpāna Sutta. The idea of in-breathing and out-breathing,
if cultivated and developed, leads to much profit.
- Ānāpāna Vagga. The seventh chapter of the Bojjhanga
Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya.
- Ānāpānasati Sutta
- Anāsava Sutta. The Buddha teaches that which is free
from Āsavas and the way thereto.
- Anāsava. A Pacceka Buddha found in a list of Pacceka
Buddhas. He lived in Isigili.
- Anatam Sutta. See Anta Sutta.
- Anātha. A Pacceka Buddha of thirty-one kappas ago.
Uddālapupphiya Thera, in a previous birth, offered him an uddāla-flower.
- Anāthapindika-putta-Kāla Vatthu. Story of the conversion
of Anāthapindika's son Kāla.
- Anāthapindika-Setthi Vatthu. Story of the goddess,
guardian of Anāthapindika's gate.
- Anāthapindikassārāma. See
- Anaticārī Sutta. A woman who is no adulteress will
be born in heaven. S.
- Anatta Sutta
- Anattā Sutta
- Anattalakhana Sutta/Vatthu
- Anattaniya Sutta. For that which does not belong
to the self, desire must be put away.
- Anattena Sutta. Lust and desire for that which is
without a self should be put away.
- Anatthapucchakabrāhmana Vatthu. Story of a brahmin
who asked the Buddha whether he knew only of that which was
good or did he know evil as well? The Buddha set his doubts
at rest. DhA.ii.227-9.
- Anatthatāya Sutta. Negligence (pamāda) conduces to
great loss. A.i.16.
- Añcanavana. See Añjanavana.
- Andabhūta Jātaka
- Andha Sutta. On the three classes of persons: the
blind, the one-eyed, and the two-eyed (A.iii.128f).
- Andhabhūta Sutta. See
- Andhakāra Sutta. The ignorance of Ill, its arising,
etc., is greater and more fearsome than the darkness of interstellar
space (lokantarika). S.
- Andhakāra Vagga. The second section of the Pācittiya
in the Bhikkhunī-vibhanga.
- Andhakāra. A village in Ceylon, one of the villages
given by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara
built by the king for the Thera Dāthāsiva.
- Andhakarattha. See Andhakā
- Andhakavinda Brāhmana. See under
Andhakavinda. His story
is given as an illustration of how followers of the Buddha would
often pursue him with manifold gifts. E.g.,
- Andhakavinda Sutta/Vagga
- Andhanāraka. One of the villages given by Aggabodhi
IV, for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara built for the Elder
- Andhatthakathā. One of the Commentaries used by Buddhaghosa
(Sp.iv.747). It was handed
down at Kāñcipura (Conjevaram) in South India.
- Andu. A village near Pulatthipura.
- Anejakā. A class of devas mentioned as having been
present on the occasion of the preaching of the Mahā-Samaya
- Anekavannavimāna. The abode of Anekavanna-devaputta.
- Anga Sutta
- Angagāma. A tank built by Parakkamabāhu I.
- Angaka. Nephew (sister's son)
- Angamu. A place in Ceylon identified with the modern
Ambagamuva (Geiger Cv.
trans. i.298, n. 3). The Senāpati Deva once encamped there.
- Anganakola. A village in South Ceylon, the residence
- Anganasālaka. A village given by Aggabodhi II. to
- Angāni Sutta 1. The five qualities of exertion (padhāna).
- Angāni Sutta 2. On the five qualities which a monk
should have and the five which he should discard to complete
his duties in the religion and attain its highest eminence.
- Angarājā. The chieftain of Anga in the Buddha's time.
- Angārapabbata. A blazing mountain of white hot coal,
one of the tortures of the Mahāniraya.
- Angika Sutta. On the development of the fivefold
Ariyan Samādhi. A.iii.25-9.
- Angirasa (Angīrasa)
- Angīrasī. A term of affection (Radiant One) used
by Pañcasikha in addressing Suriyavaccasā (D.ii.265).
The Commentary (DA.iii.701) explains that she was so called
because her limbs shone (ange rasmiyo assāti Angīrasī.)
- Angulimāla (Angulimālaka)
- Angulimāla Paritta. See above; referred to also in
the Milindapañha (p.151) in a list of Parittas.
- Angulimāla Sutta. Contains the story of the bandit's
conversion and the bliss of his deliverance.
- Angulimāla-pitaka. Given in a list of heretical works.
- Anguttara Nikāya
- Anguttaranavatīkā. By Sāriputta, author also of Sarātthadīpanī-Vinaya-tīkā
- Anguttara-tīkā. By Candagomi, evidently an author
of Ceylon. Svd.v.1201.
- Anguttaratthakathā. Quoted in the exegesis to the
Jātaka. J. i.131.
- Āni Sutta
- Anicca Sutta /
- Aniccā Sutta. On the seven kinds of persons who are
worthy of homage and of gifts.
- Aniccadhamma Sutta. Desire for that whose nature
is impermanent should be destroyed.
- Aniccatā Sutta
- Anidassana Sutta. The invisible and the path leading
thereto. S. iv.370.
- Anīgha. A Pacceka Buddha; occurs in a list of Pacceka
- Anikadatta. See Anikaratta.
- Ānimandavya. See Animandavya.
- Animandavya. See Mandavya.
- Animitta Sutta. Preached by Moggallāna ; it records
an occasion when he experienced unconditioned rapture of the
- Aniruddha. See Anuruddha.
- Ānisamsa Sutta. On the six advantages of realizing
the first fruit of the Path (Sotāpattiphala).
- Ānisamsa Vagga
- Anissukī Sutta. A woman who is faithful, modest,
scrupulous, not wrathful and rich in wisdom, will be reborn
in a happy condition. S.
- Anītika Sutta and Anītikadhamma Sutta. On
the state that is free from ill and the path thereto.
- Anitthigandhakumāra Vatthu. See Anitthigandhakumāra
- Anivatta Brahmadatta
- Aniyata. The third division of the Pārājika of the
Sutta Vibhanga. Vin.iii.187-94.
- Añjalī. One of the nuns who accompanied Sanghamittā
to Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.24.
- Añjana-pabbata. One of the six peaks of the
Himālaya from which rose the five
great rivers and round which were the seven lakes (J.v.415).
Pabbata, one of the seven chief pupils of the Bodhisatta
Jotipāla, had his hermitage
there. J. v.133.
- Anjana-vana (Añcana-vana)
- Añjanavaniya Thera
- Añjasa. A king of two kappas ago, father of
Sunanda, a previous birth of
- Ankolaka Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth he
had offered an ankola-flower to Siddatha Buddha. Once, thirty-six
kalpas ago, he was a Cakkavatti named Devagajjita.
- Ankura Vatthu. The story of
- Ankurapeta Vatthu. See
Ankura. According to
MA.i.225 and DA.i.178,
in this story the word brahma-cariya is used to mean veyyāvacca
- Anna Sutta 1.All creatures desire food, so food
should be given in charity (S.i.32).
- Anna Sutta 2. A.ii.86f.; but see
- Añña Sutta. On the results of developing the four
- Aññamjivām aññamsarīram Sutta. That the body is one
thing and the soul another is the view held by some people.
- Aññanā Sutta. Five of the same name recording conversations
with the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta
regarding the results of ignorance.
- Aññāta-Kondañña (Aññā-Kondañña)
- Aññatara Sutta 1.On the chain of causation.
- Aññatara Sutta 2.Few are born among men because
beings do not see the four Ariyan truths.
- Aññatara° Vatthu. Several stories given in the Dhammapada
Commentary are designated only by such titles as Aññatara-itthi
vatthu, Aññatara-kutumbika vatthu, etc. For reference to such
stories see DhA. Index
- Aññatara-Bhikkhu Sutta. Two of this name containing
questions on the holy life and the destruction of the Āsavā.
- Aññatara-Brahma Sutta. A certain Brahmā thought no
recluse or brahmin could come to his world. The Buddha, Mogallāna,
Mahākassapa, Mahākappina and Anuruddha all appeared there and
refuted his views. S.
- Aññatitthiya Bhānavāra. Ends the sixteenth chapter
of the second khandhaka of the Mahāvagga.
- Aññatitthiya Sutta. Describes a visit of Sāriputta
to some heretical teachers in Rājagaha and the discussions that
ensued. Ananda reports the incident to the Buddha, who approves
and explains the questions further.
- Aññatitthiya Sutta. The answers that should be given
to followers of other faiths if they should question about lust,
malice and delusion. A.i.199-201.
- Aññatitthiya Vagga. Several discourses on the views
of other teachers. S.
- Anodhi Sutta. Three suttas on the development of
unlimited reflection of anicca, dukkha and anattā.
- Anomasatta. An epithet of the Buddha.
- Anomiya Sutta. Contains verses in praise of the Buddha
who is called the Peerless (Anonianāma) (S.i.33).
The verses are found also in the Sutta Nipāta (Sn.p.177).
- Anopama. Birthplace of the Vessabhū Buddha and capital
of his father, King Suppatīta.
D.ii.7; but Bu.xxii.18
gives it as Anoma. The BuA.
(p. 205) calls it Anūpama.
- Anorata. The name by which Anuruddha (Anawrata),
King of Burma (Ramañña), is generally known. He was a religious
reformer and was helped in his task by a Talaing monk, Arahanta.
Bode: Pāli Lit. of Burma,
- Anottapā Sutta. Records a conversation between Mahākassapa
and Sāriputta in Isipatana. A man without ardour (anātāpī) and
without care (a-nottāpī) is incapable of Enlightenment and Nibbana.
- Anottappamūlakā-tīni Sutta. Through an element (dhātuso)
beings meet together, the indiscreet with the indiscreet, the
untaught with the untaught, the unwise with the unwise and vice
versa. S. ii.163.
- Anta Jātaka (No. 295)
- Anta Sutta. The Buddha teaches the end, as well as
the way thereto. See also Antā Sutta. (S.iv.373).
- Antā Sutta. The four separate divisions: Sakkāya,
its arising, ceasing, and the way thereto.
- Anta Vagga. The first chapter of the Uparipaññāsaka
of the Khanda Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.iii.157ff).
- Antaka. See Māra.
- Antalikkhacara. A king who reigned thirty-two kappas
ago; Ākā-sukkhipiya Thera in a previous birth.
- Antaraganga. A district in Ceylon. Ras.ii.10.
- Antarāganga. A monastery in Ceylon to which Jetthatissa
III. gave the village of Cullamātika.
- Antaramegiri. A monastery built by King Dhātusena.
- Antarapeyyāla. A section of the Nidāna Samyutta containing
twelve suttas with abridged contents.
- Antavā Sutta. The origin of the view that the world
is limited. S. iii.214.
- Antevāsī Sutta. A monk dwells at ease without a pupil
or a teacher, the pupil or co-resident (antevāsī) being the
name given to evil and unprofitable states of mind which arise
in him and abide in him through the senses. Such states are
also called "teacher" (ācariya) because they beset and master
him. S. iv.136-8.
- Antureli. One of the villages given by King Aggabodhi
IV. for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara, which he built
for the Thera Dāthā-siva.
- Anubuddha Sutta. Preached at Bhandagāma, on the importance
of understanding. A.ii.1f.
- Anudhamma Sutta. The Bhikkhu, who conforms to the
Dhamma, should live in disgust for the body, feeling, etc.
- Anugāra. An eminent wandering ascetic. He is mentioned
as living in the Paribbājakārāma in the Moranivāpa in Veluvana
near Rājagaha. He was probably one of the company who was with
Sakuludāyi when the Buddha came to visit the latter.
- Anuggaha Sutta. Right belief is endowed with five
- Anujīvisamiddha. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara.
- Anukampaka Sutta. The five ways in which a resident
monk shows his sympathy for his lay supporters.
- Anulatissapabbata. A vihāra in Gangārājī in East
Ceylon, built by Kanitthatissa.
- Anulepadāyaka Thera. An arahant. In Atthadassī's
time he supplied plaster to a monk for carrying out some repairs
to a building. Ap.i.251.
- Anulomadāyaka Thera
- Anumana Sutta
- Anūna. The name used by the Yakkha
Punnaka to hide from Dhañjaya
his real name, lest he should be mistaken for a slave. The word
has the same meaning as Punnaka.
- Anupada Sutta
- Anupada Vagga. The second section of the Uparipaññāsa
of the Majjhima Nikāya. M.iii.25ff.
- Anupādāya Sutta. The holy life is lived with final
emancipation, free from grasping, as its aim.
- Anupalakkhanā Sutta. Diverse views are the result
of want of discrimination.
- Anupanāhī Sutta. The woman who is not wrathful will
be born in a happy condition.
- Anupiya (Anupiyā)
- Anūpiya.See Anupiya.
- Anura. A general of the Vanga king's army, maternal
cousin of Sīhabāhu, father of Vijaya. When Sīhabāhu left the
lion's den with his mother and sister they came across Anura
who was ruling the border country. Later Anura married Sīhabāhu's
mother. Mv.vi.16-20; MT.246.
- Anurādhagāma. The name given to the settlement founded
by the two Anurādhas. It was near the Kadamba-nadi (Mhv.ix.9;
x.76). The capital, Anurādhapura, was later founded near it.
- Anurāja. Son of Sunanda, King of Surabhi, at the
time of Mangala Buddha. He visited the Buddha in the company
of his father, and, having listened to his preaching, became
an arahant. BuA.119-20.
- Anuruddha Sutta/Samyutta
- Anuruddha Thera
- Anusamsāvaka Thera. An arahant. In a past birth he
gave a spoonful of rice to the Buddha Vipassī.
- Anusāsika Jātaka (No. 115)
- Anusāsikā. The name of the greedy bird in the Anusāsika
Jātaka. J. i.429.
- Anusaya Sutta
- Anusayā Sutta. On how the anusayā can be uprooted.
- Anusota Sutta. On four classes of persons: those
who go with the stream and those who go against it; those who
stand fast and those who have crossed over.
- Anussati Sutta 1. The
six topics of recollected ness.
A.iii.284. In the Visuddhi
Magga (p. 226) it is called Gedha Sutta.
- Anussati Sutta 2. A detailed explanation of the above.
- Anutīracārī. An otter who had a dispute with another
otter, Gambhīracārī, about a fish. They appealed to a jackal,
Māyāvī, and lost in the bargain, the jackal claiming the middle
of the fish as the price of his arbitration, leaving only the
head and the tail for the otters.
J. iii.333f.; DhA.iii.141-2.
- Anuttarasangāmavijaya (Dhammapariyāya).One of the
names by which the Bahudhātuka Sutta is known.
- Anuttāriya Sutta 1. The six unsurpassables.
- Anuttāriya Sutta 2. A detailed explanation of the
- Anuttariya Vagga. The third chapter of the Chakka
Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya.
- Anuvattanā Sutta. Like a cakkavatti's eldest son,
who, because of five qualities, administers the kingdom like
his father, so does Sāriputta administer the Kingdom of Righteousness
founded by the Buddha. A.iii.148-9.
- Anuvindakā. Name of a people, mentioned with hosts
of others, as seeking and finding hospitality in the house of
Jatukannika, when, in a previous birth, he was a banker in Hamsavatī.
- Anva Vagga. See Addha
- Apacāyika Sutta. See
- Apaccakkhakamma Suttā. Five discourses in which the
Buddha explains to Vacchagotta
how diverse opinions arise through want of clearness about the
facts of body, feeling, perception, activities and consciousness.
- Apaccupalakkhanā Sutta. Same as the above, only substituting
"through not discriminating" for "through want of clearness."
- Apaccupekkhanā Sutta. Same as the above, but substituting
"through not looking into" for "through not discriminating."
Apadāna-Atthakathā, the commentary
on the Apadāna. See Visuddhajanavilāsinī.
- Apadāniya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago
he eulogised the life-history (apadānam pakittayim) of the Buddha
and paid homage at his feet. As a consequence of this good deed
he knew no evil birth thereafter (Ap.i.24).
- Apagata Sutta. Records a conversation between the
Buddha and Rāhula in Jetavana. The Buddha explains how the mind
is freed from notions of "I" and "mine."
S. ii.253; see Rāhula
- Apalāladamana. See Apalāla.
- Apalokina Sutta. The Buddha teaches the un-decaying
and the path that leads thereto.
S. iv.370. On the name
see KS.iv.262, n.2.
- Apalokita. See Apalokina.
- Āpana Sutra. See Saddha
- Āpāna. One of the Vanni chiefs of Ceylon, brought
into subjection by Bhuvanekabāhu I. (Cv.xc.33)
- Apannaka Jātaka (No.
- Apannaka Sutta/Vagga
- Apannakatā Sutta. On the three qualities which make
a monk proficient in following the sure course (apannakapatipadā):
guarding the senses, moderation in eating and wakefulness.
- Apanthaka. Given as a personal name in a passage
where it is stated that names are mere designators, they signify
nothing. Thus "Panthakas " (Guides) too lose their way, so do
"Apanthakas." J. i.403.
- Apāra Sutta
- Aparāditthi Sutta
- Aparagoyma. See Gotama
- Aparantā. Mentioned in a list of tribes.
- Aparantaka (Aparanta)
- Aparihāni Sutta. There are seven things that decline
not, viz., the seven bojjhangas.
S. v.85; see also ibid.,
- Aparihāniya Sutta
- Aparika. See
- Apāsādika Sutta. Two discourses on the evils of being
- Apassena. A cakkavatti who lived six kappas ago;
a previous birth of Ārakkhadāyaka
- Āpatti (Sutta/Vagga)
- Āpāyika Sutta. On three persons who are doomed to
- Āpāyika Vagga. The twelfth chapter of the Tika Nipāta
of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.265-73).
It contains ten suttas on various topics.
- Apāyimha Vagga. The ninth section of the Eka Nipāta
of the Jātaka. J. i.360-79.
- Apheggusāra. A treatise, of about the fourteenth
century, on Abhidhamma topics, written by a scholar of Hamsavatī
in Burma. Bode: op.
cit., 36 and n.2; Sās.48.
- Apheggusāradīpanī A book composed at Hamsavatī, probably
by Mahāsuvannadīpa, teacher of Queen Sīvalī. In Nevill's MS.
Catalogue in the British Museum it is described as an anutīkā
dealing with matter in the Abhidhammatthavibhāvanī.
Bode: op. cit. 36, n.2.
- Apilāpiya. A cakkavatti of eighty-six kappas ago;
a former birth of Tikandīpupphiya Thera.
- Appacintī. A fish who lived in the Ganges with his
brothers Bahucintī and Mitacintī. He and Bahucintī were caught
in a fisherman's net and were rescued by Mitacintī. The story
is told in the Mitacintī
- Appakā (or Virata) Vagga. The eighth chapter of the
Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya.
- Appaka Sutta
- Appamāda Sutta /
- Appamādovāda. The name given to the stanzas in the
Dhammapada (Nos. 21-23) on heedfulness.
- Appamateyya Sutta. See
- Appamatta Sutta. See
- Appamattaka Vagga. The nineteenth chapter of the
Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. In the spiritual world,
by analogy with Nature, only a few are selected out of many
who will be lost. A.i.35-8.
- Appameyya Sutta. Of three classes of persons, the
arahant is the immeasurable (appameyya).
- Appam-supati Sutta. The five kinds of persons who
sleep but little. A.iii.156.
- Appassuta Sutta 1. A woman who has small knowledge
is born in purgatory. S.
- Appassuta Sutta 2. Four classes of persons, some
of small learning and some of wide learning.
- Appativāni Sutta. By him who knows not birth and
becoming, grasping, craving, feeling, contact, etc., there must
be no turning back in the search for knowledge.
- Appativedhā Sutta. Preached to
Vacchagotta. Divers opinions
arise in the world through want of perception of the nature
of the body, etc. S. iii.261.
- Appatividitā-Sutta. Spoken by a deva; a Buddha has
arisen, now is the time for those who have not perceived the
truth to do so. S. i.4.
- Appiyā. See Suppiyā.
- Aputtaka Sutta
- Aputtasetthi Vatthu. The story of Aputtaka given
- Ārabbhavatthu Sutta. On the eight occasions in which
exertion should be applied.
- Ārabhati Sutta. There are five kinds of people in
the world. Those who commit faults and repent, etc.
- Araddhaviriya Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha
(No.80) to a Sutta in the Itivuttaka (p.115f.), which is called
in the Anguttara as Cara Sutta (q.v.).
- Arahā Sutta
- Araham Sutta
- Arahanta Sutta/Vagga
- Arahanta. A Talaing monk, the preceptor and advisor
of Anuruddha. King of Burma. He made far-reaching reforms in
the Burmese Sangha of his day (
Bode, op. cit., 12-13).
- Arahatta Sutta/Vagga
- Araja. One of the palaces occupied by
Dhammadassī before he became
the Buddha. Bu.xvi.14.
- Araka Jātaka
- Araka Sutta. The teachings of
- Ārakkha Sutta. Earnest care should be exerted to
guard one's thoughts from running riot among passionate things,
from being malicious, from being deluded and from following
the path laid down by various recluses (false teachers?).
- Ārakkhadāyaka Thera
- Ārāma Sutta. See Sāriputta-Kotthita Sutta.
- Āramā Vagga. The sixth division of the Pacittiya
of the Bhikkhunī Vibhanga (Vin.iv.306-17).
- Ārāmadanda. A brahmin.
- Ārāmadāyaka Thera. An arahant. In a past life he
planted a garden with shady trees for the Buddha Siddhattha,
and gave the Buddha the fruits and flowers that grew there.
Thirty-seven kappas ago he was born seven times as king, by
name Mudusītala. Ap.i.251.
Jātaka (No. 46, 268)
- Ārāmassa. A village in Ceylon, given by King Udaya
I. for the maintenance of a Loharūpa (bronze statue) of the
- Arammā. A tribe mentioned in a list of tribes.
- Ārammana Sutta
- Aranā Sutta. On the Undefiled. Preached in answer
to a deva's questions as to who are undefiled and fit to receive
homage from everyone. Monks, says the Buddha, are so worthy
- Aranadīpiya Thera
- Aranañjaha. See
- Aranavibhanga Sutta
- Arani Sutta
- Ārañjara. See Arañjaragiri.
- Arañña Jātaka (No.
- Arañña Sutta/Vagga
- Āraññaka Mahāabhaya
- Āraññaka Sutta. The name given in the Sutta Sangaha
(No. 85) to the Anāgata Sutta (q.v.).
- Araññasatta. A king of twenty kappas ago; a previous
birth of Nimittasaññaka Thera (v.l. Araññamanna; Araññasanta).
- Araññavāsī Nikāya
- Arati Sutta
- Āravāla. See Aravāla.
- Aravāladaha. The lake in which
- Arikārī. A monastery in Ceylon. It is not recorded
by whom it was first built. Udaya I. found it in a dilapidated
condition and had it repaired. He also built there a house for
the distribution of food and added a pāsāda (Cv.xlix.32).
- Arimanda. A city in which the Bodhisatta was born
as the Khattiya Vijatāvī in the time of the Buddha Phussa.
- Arittha (Sutta)
- Arittha Vihāra. The monastery built by Lañjakatissa
in Aritthapabbata. Mhv.xxxiii.27;
- Arittha-thapita-ghara. See Sirivaddhaghara (?).
- Ariya (Sutta)
- Ariyā Sutta. The four iddhi-pādas, if cultivated,
conduce to the utter destruction of Ill. They are ariyaniyyānikā.
- Ariyabālisika Vatthu. The story of the fisherman
Ariya given above, Ariya 2.
- Ariyagāla-tittha. A ford, probably on the
- Ariyākara Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
- Ariyākari. A monastery in Rohana in South Ceylon.
Dappula gave it to the village of Mālavatthu and built therein
an image house. He also had a valuable unnaloma and a hemapatta
made for the image there.
- Ariyaka-Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.174.
- Ariyakoti. A monastery (probably in Ceylon), the
residence of Mahā Datta Thera.
- Ariyamagga Sutta/Vagga
- Ariyasāvaka Sutta
- Ariyavamsālankāra. A book written by ñānābhisāsanadhaja
Mahādhammarājaguru Thera of Burma, author of the Petakālankāra
and other books. Sās.134.
- Ariyavasā Sutta. The
ten dwellings of Ariyans, past, present and future.
- Aruka Sutta. On the man whose mind is like an open
sore, as opposed to one who is lightning-minded or diamond-minded.
- Arunabala. See below Arunapāla.
- Arunaka. Thirty-six kappas ago there were seven kings
of the name of Arunaka, all previous births of the Thera Vatthadāyaka
- Arunañjaha. Seventy kappas
ago there were sixteen kings of the name of Arunañjaha. They
were all past births of
Asokapūjaka Thera (Ap.i.199).
- Arunapāla. A king of thirty-five kappas ago, a former
birth of Kanikārapupphiya Thera (who is evidently identical
with Ujjaya, Ap.i.203).
In the Theragāthā Commentary (i.119) he is called Arunabala.
- Arunapura. A city in the time of the Buddha Sikhī.
Ambapālī was born there in
a brahmin family (Ap.ii.613;
ThigA.i.213). It is
probably identical with Arunavatī.
- Arunavā. See Aruna (1).
- Arunavatī (Sutta)
- Arunavatī Paritta. Same as
- Arundhavatī. See Amaravatī
- Aruppala. One of the villages given by Kittisirirājasīha
for the maintenance of the Gangārāma Vihāra.
- Āsā-Vagga. The eleventh chapter of the Eka Nipāta
of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.86-8).
It contains twelve suttas on various topics.
- Āsā. Daughter of Sakka.
- Asaddha Sutta. Like joins with (literally "flows
together with") like, unbelievers with unbelievers, the lazy
with the lazy, etc. S.
- Asaddhamūlakāpañca Sutta. The same in its main features
as the Asaddha Sutta. S.
- Asadisa Jātaka (No.
- Asadisa Vagga. The fourth section of the Duka Nipāta
of the Jātakatthakathā.
- Asadisadāna Vatthu. The story of the
its sequel, the story of Pasenadi's two ministers Kāla and Junha.
- Asallakkhanā Sutta. Preached to the Paribbājaka
Vacchagotta. Through want
of discernment of the nature of the body, etc., diverse opinions
arise in the world. S.
- Asamāhita Sutta. Like joins with like, e.g. the un-concentrated
with the un-concentrated, because of some fundamental quality
(dhātu) common to both. S.
- Asamapekkhanā Sutta. By not seeing the nature of
body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. Preached at
Sāvatthi to the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta.
- Asamatta Sutta
- Asampadāna Jātaka
- Asampadāna Vagga. The fourteenth section of the Eka
Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā.
- Asanabodhiya Thera
- Āsanatthavika Thera
- Asani Sutta
- Āsanka Jātaka (No. 380)
- Āsankā. The adopted daughter of the Bodhisatta in
the Āsanka Jātaka. She was
so called because she came to him when he crossed the water
owing to his doubt (āsankā) as to what was in the lotus.
- Asankhata Samyutta. Also called Nibbāna Samyutta.
The forty-third section of the Samyutta Nikāya.
- Asankhata Suttas. A group of suttas describing the
way to the uncompounded (asankhata).
- Asankiya Jātaka
- Āsanupatthāyaka Thera
- Asappurisa Sutta
- Asātamanta Jātaka
- Asātarūpa Jātaka
- Asatthārāma. The place where the Buddha
Piyadassī died. Bu.xiv.27.
- Āsava Sutta
- Āsavakkhaya Sutta
- Āsavānam-khaya Sutta. By cultivating the five indriyas
(saddhā, etc.) a monk in this very life realises the liberation
by insight which is without the Āsavas.
- Asekhiya Sutta. Five things which make a monk worthy
of offerings, etc. A.iii.134.
- Āseva Sutta. If, just for the duration of a finger
snap, a monk indulges a thought of good-will, such a one is
verily a monk (A.i.10).
- Āsevitabba Sutta. On the characteristics of the person
who should be followed. A.i.124f.
- Asiggāha Silākāla. See
- Asiggāhaka-parivena. A building in the Thūpārāma.
- Asilakkhana Jātaka
- Āsimsa Vagga. The sixth section of the Eka Nipāta
of the Jātakatthakathā.
- Asipattavana. One of the
tortures of purgatory. In the distance the grove appears as
a mango grove, and when the inhabitants of purgatory enter,
wishing to eat the mangoes, leaves which are sharp like swords
fall on them, cutting off their limbs. Sn.v.673; SnA.ii.481.
- Asisūkarika Sutta
- Asita Devala
- Asitābhu Jātaka
- Asitābhū. Wife of Prince Brahmadatta. Her story is
given in the Asitābhū
- Asitañjala. See Amitañjala.
- Asīti Nipāta. The twenty-first section of the
- Āsīvisopama Sutta
- Asokapūjaka Thera
- Assa Sutta
- Assagutta Thera
- Assaji (Sutta)
- Assaji-Punabbasuka-Vatthu. The story of the visit
of the Aggasāvakas to the
mentioned above. DhA.ii.108-10.
- Assaka Jātaka (No.
- Assakanna. One of the mountains
round Sineru (SnA.ii.443; Sp.i.119).
It is higher than Vinataka, and
between these two flows the
- Assalāyana Sutta. Records the conversation between
the Buddha and Assalāyana
when the latter went to visit him.
- Assamukha. One of the four rivers that flow out of
the Anotatta Lake. Many horses
are found on its banks. SnA.ii.438;
- Assapura Suttas. See
Mahā Assapura and
- Assārāma. The place of death of
Sikhī Buddha (BuA.204). The Buddhavamsa
(Bu.xxi.28) calls it Dussārāma.
- Assāroha. Probably a nickname for the horse-trainer
whose visit to the Buddha is recorded in the Assa Sutta. He
is described as a gāmani (head man of a village). S.
- Assāsa Sutta. A conversation between Sāriputta and
the Paribbājaka Jambukhādaka as to what constitutes comfort
(assāsa) and how it might be won.
- Assu Sutta. Preached at Sāvatthi. The tears shed
by a person faring in Samsāra, as a result of various sorrows,
are greater in quantity than the waters of the four oceans.
One should therefore feel repulsion for all things of this world.
- Assutavā Sutta. From the adjusted friction of two
sticks fire is born; if there is no friction there is no fire.
Similarly, from contact feeling is born: if contact ceases feeling
ceases. The well-taught disciple knows this and attains freedom.
- Assutavata Sutta
- Asubha Sutta
- Asubhakammika Tissa Thera. Referred to in the Majjhima
Commentary (MA.i.228; J.
iii.534; see also MT.401)
as an example of a monk in whom lustful desires ceased because
he dwelt on the Impurities and associated only with worthy friends.
He was an arahant.
- Asura Vagga/Sutta
- Asurinda (Asurindaka)
- Asurindaka Bhāradvāja
- Ātānātā. A city in
Uttarakuru, mentioned with Kusinātā, Parakusinātā and Nātāpuriyā
- Ātānātiya Sutta
- Ātappa Sutta
- Atarandā-mahābhodikkhandha. A village in Rohana where
the forces of Dhamilādhikāri destroyed the rebels.
- Athabbana (āthabbana)
- Athalayunnāda. A district in
- Athalayūru-nadālvāra. A
Tamil chieftain. Cv.lxxvi.140,
- Aticāri Sutta. That an adulteress is born in purgatory.
- Atideva. The Bodhisatta born as a Brahmin in the
time of Revata Buddha. Having heard the Buddha preach he gave
him his upper garment (J.i.35; Bu.vi.10;
Mbv.10). He belonged
to Rammavatī. BuA.134.
- Atimbara. Minister of Dūtthagāmani. SdS.77.
- Atimuttaka-sāmanera Vatthu. See
- Atinivāsa Sutta. The five evil results of long dwelling
- Atipandita. The Bodhisatta was once born as the son
of a merchant family in Benares
and was named Pandita. He entered into partnership with another
man, named Atipandita, who tried to deceive him but in vain.
- Atītānāgatapneuppanna Suttas. Three in number. Seeing
that the sankhāras are (1) impermanent, (2) ill, and (3) without
the self, the Ariyan disciple cares not for what is past, is
not in love with the present and seeks dispassion for the future.
- Atītena Sutta. Seeing that the eye, ear, etc., of
the past are impermanent, the Ariyan disciple should cease desiring
them. S. iv.151.
- Atitti Sutta. There is no satiety in sleep, in drinking
liquor and in sexual intercourse.
- Atta Sutta 1. Self-possession is the forerunner of
the Eightfold Path. S.
- Atta Sutta 2. The self-possessed monk develops the
Eightfold Path. S. v.37.
- Attadanda Sutta
- Attadattha Thera
- Attadīpa Sutta. Monks should be refuges unto themselves,
the Dhamma should be their refuge. They should seek for the
very source of things in the impermanence of the five Khandhas.
- Attadīpa Vagga. Of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.iii.42ff),
contains ten suttas on the nature of the body and the self.
- Attahita Sutta. Three suttas on the four kinds of
people in the world: bent on their own profit; on another's
profit; on the profit of both; on the profit of neither.
- Attakāra Sutta. On individuality and non-individuality;
preached in answer to a brahmin's questions.
- Attakarana Sutta. See
- Attālhidhātusena Vihāra. A monastery built by King
- Attantāpa Sutta. On the self-tormentor who practices
various austerities, and the tormentor of others - butcher,
fisherman, etc. and those who, like some kings, torment both
themselves and others. A.ii.203ff.
- Attānuvāda Sutta. On the four kinds of fears: fear
of self-reproach, of others' reproach, of punishment, and of
woeful state. A.ii.121f.
- Atta-piya Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha
(No. 46) for Piya Sutta (2).
- Atthakāma Vagga. The fifth section of Eka Nipāta
of the Jātakatthakathā.
- Atthaka Nipata.The eight book of the
- Atthakanagara. A city,
from which came the householder Dasama
who, while on a visit to
Pātaliputta on business,
went to see Ananda at
Beluvagāma and questioned him
A.v.342-7). The conversation
is recorded in the Atthaka-nāgara
- Atthakarana Sutta
- Atthakathācariyā. Composers (?) of the Commentaries.
They lived prior to Buddhaghosa,
because he refers to them. E.g.,
- Atthakathā-Thera. Mentioned in the Dīgha Commentary
(iii.728) as being capable of solving the doubts that arose
in the mind of Mahā Sīvali Thera
of the village hermitage.
- Atthakula Sutta. The reasons why certain families,
having attained great possessions, fail to last long.
- Atthama. Pacceka Buddha, one of the names given in
a list of such. M.iii.70;
- Atthana Jātaka
- Atthāna Vagga. A group of the "impossibilities";
examples of such are the simultaneous existence of two Buddhas,
or the following of a good result from an evil deed.
- Atthangika (Magga)
- Atthapuggala Sutta. Two suttas on the eight persons
who are worthy of homage and of gifts.
- Atthasadda Jātaka
- Atthasahassa. A district of Rohana in Ceylon (Cv.lxi.24;
lxxv.154) to the east of the modern Valaveganga. See Geiger,
Cv. trans., i.227, n.4.
- Atthasata Sutta (°Pariyaya). Method of describing
the 108 feelings - thirty-six each of the past, present and
future. S. iv.231.
Jātaka (No. 84)
- Atthavasa Vagga. The seventeenth chapter of the Duka
Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.98-100).
It deals with the aims behind the Buddha's injunctions to monks
with regard to the practice of samatha and vipassanā, to be
employed as remedies against lust, etc.
- Atthika Sutta. A group of suttas dealing with the
benefits occurring from meditating on skeletons.
- Atthipesī Sutta. Preached about a pets, a mere skeleton,
seen near Gijjhakūta by Moggallāna
and Lakkhana. He had been a cattle-butcher in Rājagaha.
- Atthipuñja Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha
(No. 21) for Puggala Sutta
- Atthirāga Sutta. All existence is the result of attachment
to the four kinds of food: kabalinkāra (solid food), phassa
(contact), manosañcetanā (will), and viññāna (consciousness).
This is explained with various similes.
- Atthisena Jātaka
- Atthissara. The name under which Devadatta, having
suffered for five parts of a kappa in purgatory, will become
Pacceka Buddha. DhA.i.125; Mil.111.
- Attho Sutta. See Virocana-asurinda Sutta (?).
- Atulamba. The mango tree produced
by the juggler Bhandu-kanna
to make Prince Mahāpanāda
laugh. The mango is known as Vessavana's mango and it is impossible
to approach it. J. iv.324;
see also ii.397.
- Atulya. King. A previous birth of
Asanatthavika Thera. Twenty-seven
kappas ago he was king seven times under this name.
- Ātuma Thera
- Avakannaka. Given in the Pācittiya rules' as an example
of a low name (hīnanāma).
- Avandiya. A Tamil chief who fought on the side of
Kulasekhara against Parakkamabāhu I.
- Avantaphaladāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-four
kappas ago he had given a fruit without a stalk (avanta) to
a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsi.
- Āvantikā. The name given to monks of
Avanti who helped
Yasa Kākandakaputta to overcome
the heresy of the Vajjiputtakas.
- Āvarana Sutta. There are five things that overwhelm
the mind and weaken the insight: kāmacchanda, vyāpāda, thīnamiddha,
uddhaccakukkucca and vicikicchā.
- Āvarana-nīvarana Sutta.-(Also called Nīvaranāvarana).
The five things, as above, which overwhelm the mind and weaken
the insight and the seven bojjhangas which counteract them and
conduce to the attainment of emancipation through knowledge.
- Āvaranatā Sutta
- Avāriya Jātaka
- Avāriya Vagga. The first division of the Chakka Nipāta
of the Jātakatthakatha
- Avāriyā. Daughter of Avāriyapitā. J.
- Avāriyapitā. The ferryman of the
- Āvāsika Vagga. The twenty-fourth chapter of the Pañaka
Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It consists of ten suttas dealing
with the qualities of a resident monk which make him worthy
of honour and agreeable, or otherwise.
- Avataphaliya Thera
- Avela. One of the palaces used by the Buddha Revata
in his last lay-life. Bu.vi.17.
- Āvenika Sutta
- Āveyya. A king of fifty-nine kappas ago, a former
birth of Samādapaka Thera. (v.l. Āvekkheyya).
- Avidūre Nidāna
- Avihimsā Sutta. See Akodha
- Avijjā Vagga/Sutta
- Avijjāpaccaya Sutta. Two suttas. Conditioned by ignorance,
activities (sankhārā) come to pass, and so on for each factor
of the Paticcasamuppāda. S.
- Avikakkā (v.l. for
- Avitakka Sutta
- Āvopupphiya Thera. An arahant. He heard Sikhī Buddha
preach and, being pleased with the sermon, threw a heap of flowers
into the sky, above the Buddha, as an offering to him. Twenty
kappas ago he became a king under the name of Sumedha (Ap.i.112).
- Avyādhika Thera. An arahant. In a previous birth
he built an aggi-sālā for Vipassī Buddha and a hospital and
hot baths for the sick. Later, seven kappas ago, he was a king
- Avyākata Samyutta. The forty-fourth section of the
Samyutta Nikāya. S. iv.374.
- Avyākata Vagga
- Avyāpajjha Sutta. The Buddha teaches the harmless
and the path thereto. S.
- Āyācana Sutta/Vagga
- Āyācitabhatta Jātaka
- Āyāgadāyaka Thera
- Ayakūta Jātaka
A general of King Sāhasamalla.
- Āyatana Sutta
- Ayoghara Jātaka (No. 510). The story of Prince Ayoghara
as given above. The story was told regarding the Buddha's Renunciation.
In the Jātakamālā the name appears as Ayogrha. Jātakamālā No.
- Ayogula Sutta
- Ayoniso (or
- Āyu Sutta
- Āyupālā (āyupālī).An arahant
Therī, preceptor of Sanghamittā.
- Āyussa Sutta. Two in number, on the five conditions
(such as excessive eating), which do not bestow long life, and
on the five conditions which do.
- Āyuvaddhana Kumāra
- Ayyakā Sutta. Pasenadī's
grandmother died at the age of 120. He had been very fond of
her, and would have done anything to have kept her. He was so
grieved at her death that he came to the Buddha for consolation.
The Buddha tells him that all creatures have to die.
- Ayyamitta Thera
- Ayyamitta. See Mahāmitta (?).