• Ababa Niraya
  • Abbha Sutta.-Thunder clouds arise sometimes because the Abbháva-láhaka devas wish to give joy to their bodies. S.iii.256.
  • Abbháhata Sutta.-The world is persecuted by death, age, decay and craving. S.i.40. The verses appear also in the story of Sirimanda Thera (Thag.v.448).
  • Abbhahattha.-See Ambahattha.
  • Abbhańjanadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he had given ointment to the Buddha Kondańńa. As a result, fifteen kappas ago he was born as a cakkavatti, Cirappa. Ap.i.236.
  • Abbhantara Játaka (No. 281)
  • Abbhantara Vagga.-The fourth division of the Tiká Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.ii.392-430.
  • Abbhasa.-Eleven kappas ago there were thirty-five kings of the name of Abbhasa, all former births of Nita Thera (ThagA.i.182) (v.l. Ambaramsa).
  • Abbhavaláhaká.-One of the Cloud-group of devas. They are embodied in the thunder clouds (cumulus clouds), and when they wish to revel and delight themselves, thunder clouds make their appearance in the sky. S.iii.256.
  • Abbhokása Sutta.-The five kinds of those who seek solitude. A.iii.220.
  • Abbhuta (Dhamma) Sutta
  • Abbuda 1.-A period of suffering in Avíci. For details see Ababa.
  • Abbuda 2.-A king of long ago; a former birth of Nigganthipupphiya Thera. Ap.i.263.
  • Ábhá Sutta.-There are four radiances: that of the moon, the sun, of fire, and of wisdom, the last being the chief. A.ii.139.
  • Ábha Vagga.-The fifteenth chapter of the Catukka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of ten suttas on such subjects as the four splendours, the four due seasons, the four sins and virtues of speech and the four choicest parts (sáras). A.ii.139-41.
  • Ábha.-A generic name for devas distinguished for their brilliance, such as the Parittábhá and the Áppamánábhá. M.iii.102; MA.ii.902.
  • Abhabba Sutta 1.-Various events and the conditions requisite for their presence. A.v.144f.
  • Abhabba Sutta 2.-The ten conditions essential for arahantship (A.v.209).
  • Ábhassara
  • Abhaya
  • Abhayá
  • Abhaya Sutta.-On what fearlessness means. A.iv.455. See Gijjhakúta Sutta.
  • Abhayácala.-Another name for Abhayagiri.
  • Abhayagallaka.-A vihára in Ceylon built by King Mahácúli-Mahá-tissa. Mhv.xxxiv.8.
  • Abhayagiri
  • Abhayagiriká.-The monks of the Abhayagiri-vihára. Mhv.xxxiii.97-8. A summary of their heresies is given at MT. 676f.
  • Abhayamátá
  • Abhayanága.-Younger brother of King Vohárikatissa. With the help of his uncle Subhadeva he conspired against the king and, obtaining the assistance of the Damilas, he overthrew and killed him. Abhayanága reigned for eight years (A.D. 291-9). Mhv.xxvi.42-53.
  • Abhayanagara.-The capital of King Abhaya (5), King of Ceylon, when the island was known as Ojadípa. It lay to the east of the Kadamba river (Mhv.xv.58-9).
  • Abhayankara.-One of the royal elephants of King Vasavatti of Benares. J.vi.135.
  • Abhayarájakumára Sutta
  • Abhayarája-parivena.-A building erected by King Vijayabáhu IV. in connection with the Vanaggámapásáda Vihára. He built it in order that he might give the merits arising therefrom to his father, Parakkamabáhu II. It was richly endowed (Cv.lxxxviii.51-2; Cv. trans. ii.186, n.4).
  • Abhayasamána Sutta.-Preached to Jánussoni on those who have no fear when death comes to them. A.ii.173f.
  • Abhayattherí.-See Abhayá.
  • Abhayavápi
  • Abhaya-Vihára.-Another name for Abhayagiri Vihára.
  • Abhayebalákapásána.-A locality in Anurádhapura, one of the spots included in the Símá marked out by Devánampiyatissa (Mhv.xv.13; see Appendix B of Geiger's text). It was on the Abhayavápi. Mbv.135.
  • Abhayupassaya.-A nunnery; see Abhaya (13).
  • Abhayuttara.-A name for Abhayagiri.
  • Abhayúvara.-The name of the eighth bhánavára (portion for recitation) of the first Khandhaka of the Mahávagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
  • Abhibhú (Sutta)
  • Abhibhúta
  • Abhibhuyya Sutta.-A woman possessed of the five powers (beauty, wealth, kin, sons and virtue) continues to get the better of her husband. S.iv.246.
  • Abhidhamma Pitaka
  • Abhidhammapannarasatthána.-A treatise by Nava Vimalabuddhi. Gv.64, 74.; Bode, op. cit., 27-8.
  • Abhidhammattha-sangaha
  • Abhidhammattha-vikásiní.-A tíká on Buddhadatta's Abhidhammávatára written by Sumangala. Gv.62; Svd.v.1227.
  • Abhidhammávatára
  • Abhidhamma-vibhánavá
  • Abhidhánappadípiká
  • Abhijána Sutta.-See Parijána.
  • Abhimárapayojaná.-Name given to the conspiracy into which Devadatta and Ajátasattu entered, to have archers shoot at the Buddha and so kill him (J.i.141; vi.130f.; DA.i.154).
  • Abhinandamána Sutta.-One who is enamoured of body, etc., becomes Mara's bondsman; by not being enamoured one becomes free. S.iii.75.
  • 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. S.iii.31.
  • 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 Játaka (No. 27)
  • Abhiníhára Sutta
  • Abhinivesa Sutta.-Bondage of and dependence upon the fetters arise as a result of clinging to the five khandhas (S.iii.186).
  • Abhińjika Thera
  • Abhińńá Sutta 1.-On higher knowledge and its applications. A.ii.246f.
  • Abhíńńá Sutta 2.-A group of suttas on qualities that could be obtained by an understanding of raga (lust). A.iii.277.
  • Abhińńá Vagga.-The twenty-sixth section of the Catukka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of ten suttas. A.ii.246-53.
  • Abhińńáparińńeyya Sutta.-Everything should be known and comprehended as impermanent, woeful, void of self. S.iv.29.
  • Abhińńeyya Sutta.-Same as above.
  • Abhirádhana.-A friend of Sambúta Sítavaniya. He went with Sambhúta, Bhúmija and Jeyyasena to hear the Buddha preach. ThagA.i.47.
  • Abhirámá.-One of the three palaces occupied, as a layman, by Nárada Buddha (Bu.x.19).
  • Abhirúpa-Nandá Therí
  • Abhisáma.-A king of fifteen kappas ago; a previous birth of Udakásanadáyaka Thera. Ap.i.218.
  • Abhisamaya Kathá.-The third chapter of the Pańńávagga of the Patisambhidámagga (ii.215ff).
  • Abhisamaya Samyutta.-The thirteenth Samyutta, forming the second section of the Nidána Vagga of the Samyutta Nikáya (ii.133ff).
  • Abhisamaya Vagga.-The sixth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya. V.459ff.
  • Abhisambodhialankára.-A Páli poem in one hundred stanzas written by Saranankara Sangharája of Ceylon in the eighteenth century. It treats of the life of the Buddha from the time of his birth as Sumedha, during the regime of Dípankara, to his last birth as Siddhattha. P.L.C.281.
  • Abhisambuddha-gáthá
  • Abhisammata.-A king of sixty-three kappas ago; a previous birth of Pátalipupphiya Thera. Ap.i.123.
  • Abhisammataka
  • Abhisanda Sutta
  • Abhiseka
  • Abhítatta.-See Ajitajana.
  • Abhivaddhamánaka.-See Aggivaddhamánaka.
  • Abhiya Kaccána.-See Sabhiya Kaccána.
  • 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 Távatimsa. DhA.iii.227 (but see Appendix).
  • Acala.-Assistant to the architect of the Mahá Thúpa. MT.535.
  • Acala-Thera. One of the eminent monks present at the foundation of the Mahá Thúpa. MT.526.
  • Ácámadáyiká
  • Ácáravitthigáma.-A village three leagues to the north-east of Anurádhapura. When Dutthagámani was seeking for materials for the building of the Mahá Thúpa, nuggets of gold, from a span to a finger's breadth in size, appeared in the village. Mhv.xxviii.13-15.
  • 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. S.ii.171.
  • 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. S.i.239.
  • Accáyika Sutta.-The urgent duties of a farmer and of a monk. A.i.239-40.
  • Accenti Sutta.-The hours pass away, be heedful therefore. S.i.3.
  • Acchagallaka (or Acchagiri)
  • Acchagiri.-See Acchagallaka.
  • Acchará Sutta
  • Acchariya Sutta
  • Acchariyabbhuta (or Acchariyadhamma) Sutta.-The wonders attendant on the nativity of a being destined to become a Buddha, described from the time of his leaving the Tusita heaven. Ananda gives them in detail with the Buddha listening and giving his approval. M.iii.118ff.
  • Acchimatí. One of the five daughters of Vessavana. She was married to Sakka. Latá (q.v.) was her sister. VvA.131.
  • Accima
  • Accimukhí
  • Accuta
  • Accutadevá.-A class of devas mentioned among those assembled on the occasion of the preaching of the Maha-Samaya Sutta. D.ii.260.
  • Accutagámabyámaka.-One of the Pacceka Buddhas in a nominal list. M.iii.70. ApA.i.107.
  • Accutagámí.-One of Vijaya's companions in colonising Ceylon. He founded a settlement at Ujjeni (Dpv.ix.32, 36). The Mahávamsa (Dpv.vii.45) mentions the founding of Ujjeni, but does not give Accutágamí's name.
  • Accutavarnadanta.-One of Ekarája's elephants. J.vi.135. But see Ját. trans. vi.72.
  • Acela Sutta
  • Acelaka Vagga.-Fifth of the Pácittiya of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.iii.195ff.; ibid., v.19-21.
  • Acela-Kassapa
  • Acintita Sutta.-The four unthinkables: the Buddhas, their musings, world-speculation and the point of action. A.ii.80.
  • Aciravata.-A novice who had a conversation with Prince Jayasena on the life of the bhikkhu. Aciravata repeats this conversation to the Buddha who thereupon preaches the Dantabhúmi Sutta (M.iii.128ff). The novice is throughout addressed as Aggivessana.
  • Aciravatí
  • Adalidda Sutta.-The rich man is he who possesses the seven bojjhangá. S.v.100
  • Adanta Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of ten suttas on the untamed mind. A.i.6f.
  • Ádásamukha
  • Ádásánandapa.-One of the numerous buildings erected by Parakkamabáhu I. in the Dípuyyána in Pulatthipura. It was so called because its walls were made of mirrors. Cv.lxxiii.119.
  • Adassaná Sutta (five).-Diverse opinions arise in the world because of the failure to see the five sankhárá 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 Devatá Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya (S.i.39-41). The Samyutta Commentary (SA.i.75. See also KS.i.54, n.4) calls it Anvavagga.
  • Addha Vagga.-Third section of the Pańcaka Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.iii.211-227.
  • Addhabhúta Sutta.-Preached in the Kalandakanivápa at Veluvana. Everything is afflicted: eye, objects, eye-consciousness, etc. (Andhabhúta). S.iv.20-1.
  • 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. Ap.i.231.
  • 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. Ap.i.134.
  • Addhakásí Therí
  • Addhamásaka
  • Addhariyá-bráhmaná.-The word occurs in a list of brahmin teachers in the Tevijja Sutta (D.i.237). They teach a state of union with Brahmá. These are evidently Adhvaryu brahmins.
  • Addhuvasíla.-A youth who stole ornaments to win the daughter of his teacher. He failed in his quest. The story is given in the Sílavímamsana Játaka. J.iii.18-20.
  • Addilarattha.-A kingdom where once lived a poor man named Kotúhalaka, who, in the present age, became Ghosita-setthi. Food being very scarce in the country, Kotúhalaka and his family left it. DA.i.317; MA.i.539.
  • Adhamma
  • 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 Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikiya (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 versa.
  • Adhammavádi
  • Adhammika Sutta.-The evils resulting from the unrighteousness of kings and the benefits of their righteousness. A.ii.74f.
  • Adhanapáli.-Given as an example of a name. J.i.403.
  • Ádháradáyaka Thera.-An arahant. He gave a stool (ádháraka) to Sikhí Buddha. Twenty-seven kappas ago he became king four times under the name of Samantavaruna. Ap.i.207.
  • Adharatteri.-A district in S. India. Cv.lxxvii.69.
  • Adhicchattiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he placed a parasol on the thupa containing the relics of Atthadassí Buddha (Ap.i.170). He is evidently identical with Sámidatta (ThagA.i.189) (v.l. Chattádhichattiya).
  • 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. A.iii.431f.
  • Adhikakká.-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. M.i.39.
  • Adhikarana Vagga
  • Adhikaranasamatha Vagga.-One of the divisions of the Suttavibhanga on the procedure for settling disputes.
  • Adhimutta
  • Ádhipateyya 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, J.R.A.S., April 1933, pp.329ff.
  • Adhoganga.-See Gangá.
  • Adhokurangáma.-A village in the district of Alisára in North Ceylon; a fortification there of Gajabáhu was captured by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxx.171.
  • Adhopupphiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he was a hermit of great power in Himavá and offered flowers to Abhibhú, the chief disciple of Sikhí Buddha. Soon afterwards he was eaten up by a boa-constrictor. Ap.i.128-9.
  • Ádicca
  • Ádicca Damiládhikári
  • Ádicca Sutta.-Just as dawn is the harbinger of the arising of the sun, so is friendship with the good (kalyánamittatá) the harbinger of the arising of the seven bojjhangas. S.v.101; cp. S.v.29.
  • Ádiccabandhu
  • Ádiccupatthána Játaka. (No. 175)
  • Ádimalaya.-One of the generals of Vijayabáhu 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.
  • Adínasattu.-See Alínasattu.
  • Adinna Sutta.-Few are they that abstain from taking what is not given. S.v.469.
  • Adinnapubbaka
  • Ádipádakajambu.-A locality in Ceylon where the Ádipáda Vikkamabáhu defeated Mánábharana and his brothers. Cv.lxi.15.
  • Ádipádapunnágakhanda.-A locality in Rohana in the south of Ceylon. It was in the district of Guttasála. Here an encounter took place between the forces of Parakkamabáhu I. and those of the rebels in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.14.
  • Aditi.-Mother of the sun, who is called Ádicca, which is explained as Aditiyá putto. DA.iii.963.
  • Áditta Játaka (No. 424)
  • Áditta Sutta/Vagga
  • Ádittapariyáya Sutta
  • Ádittena Sutta
  • Ádiya Sutta
  • Adukkhamasukhi Sutta.-A group of twenty-six suttantas, dealing with various heresies regarding the soul. S.iii.220-2.
  • Agada.-Cakkavatti, sixteen times in succession; Subáhu Thera in a previous birth. ThagA.i.124.
  • Agahya Sutta.-Devas and men delight in objects, sounds, etc., but, through the instability of these, they live in sorrow. S.iv.126f.
  • Ágantuka
  • Ágantuka Sutta
  • Ágára 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 (sámisa) and non-carnal. S.iv.219.
  • Agárava Sutta
  • Agáriya Vimána.-A palace in the Távatimsa world, occupied by a couple who, as humans in Rájagaha, had done many deeds of piety. Vv.vi.; VvA.286-7.
  • 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. A.ii.18f.
  • Aggabodhi
  • Aggabodhipadhánaghara.-A building erected by Aggabodhi IV. for the use of the Thera Dáthásiva. Several villages were made over for its maintenance. Cv.xlvi.11ff.
  • Aggabodhiparivena.-A building belonging to the Jetavanáráma of Anurádhapura and erected by Potthasáta, general of Aggabodhi IV. Cv.xlvi.23.
  • Aggadhamma Sutta.-On the six qualities requisite for the attainment of arahantship, which is the highest state (aggadhamma). A.iii.433-4.
  • Aggadhanuggahapandita.-See Cúla Dhş.
  • Aggalapura.-A city where Revata went on his way from Soreyya to Sahajáti, prior to the Council of Vesáli. Vin.ii.300.
  • Aggálava Cetiya
  • Aggáni Sutta.-The four perfections: of virtue, concentration, wisdom and release. A.ii.79; see GS.ii.88, n.2.
  • Aggańńa Sutta
  • Aggapandita
  • Aggapíthaka-pásáda
  • Aggappasáda Sutta
  • Aggapupphiya Thera.-One of the arahants. In a previous birth he had offered flowers, from the top of a tree, to Sikhí, hence the name. In later birth he was a Cakkavatti named Amita. Ap.i.229.
  • Aggasávaka Vatthu.-The chronicle of Sáriputta and Moggallána. DhA.i.83-114.
  • Aggavamsa
  • Aggavatí Parisá Sutta.-On the three kinds of companies: the distinguished, the discordant and the harmonious. A.i.242-4.
  • Aggi Sutta
  • Aggi-Bhagava
  • Aggibrahmá.-Nephew of Asoka and husband of Sanghamittá. He entered the Order on the same day as Tissakumára, Asoka's brother. Mhv.v.169; Sp.i.51; Mbv.102.
  • Aggidatta
  • Aggideva
  • Aggika Játaka (No. 129).-The story of a jackal, who, when his hair is singed by a forest fire, pretends to be a saint of the name of Bháradvája and eats the rats that trust him. J.i.461f.
  • Aggika Sutta
  • Aggika-Bhárádvája
  • Aggika-Bháradvája Sutta.-Another name for the Vasala Sutta.
  • Aggikkhandopama Sutta
  • Aggimála (Aggimáli).-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 Suppáraka Játaka.
  • Aggimittá.-One of the nuns who accompanied Sanghamittá to Ceylon. Dpv.xv.78; xviii.11.
  • Aggimukha.-A species of snake; bodies bitten by them grow hot. DhsA.300; Vsm.368.
  • Agginibbápaka.-(v.l. Agginibbápana), a cakkavatti of eighty-six kalpas ago; a previous birth of Mánava Thera (ThagA.i.162f), also called (in the Apadána i.158-9) Sammukháthavika.
  • Aggisáma.-See Abhisáma.
  • Aggisama.-The Thera Pupphathúpiya was born sixteen times in succession as cakkavatti and ruled under this name. Ap.i.156.
  • Aggisikha.-The name borne by the Thera Gatasańńaka when in previous births he was cakkavatti three times in succession. Ap.i.127.
  • Aggismim Sutta.-The five evil qualities of fire. A.iii.256.
  • Aggivacchagotta Sutta (Aggivaccha Sutta)
  • Aggivaddhamánaka.-A tank made by King Vasabha of Ceylon (Abhi°). Mhv.xxxv.95.
  • Aggivessa.-One of the guards of King Eleyya (A.ii.181). Is this a gotta name? (See below.)
  • Aggivessana
  • Aghamúla Sutta.-On the root of pain. S.iii.32.
  • Ágháta Sutta 1.-On nine things which cause enmity to be born. A.iv.408.
  • Ágháta Sutta 2.-On the nine ways of getting rid of feelings of enmity. A.iv.408-9.
  • Ágháta Vagga.-The seventeenth chapter of the Pancaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It contains ten suttas on various topics, including a dispute between Sáriputta and Udáyi (A.iii.185-202).
  • Ághátavinaya Sutta
  • Ahaha.-One of the purgatories mentioned in the Sutta-Nipáta list (p.126). It is the name given to a period of suffering in Avíci and is equivalent in duration to twenty Ababá (SnA.ii.476; S.i.152).
  • Áhára Sutta
  • Ahicchatta
  • Ahidípa.-The old name for Káradípa, near Nágadípa. Akitti spent some time there. J.iv.238.
  • Ahigundika Játaka (No. 365)
  • Ahimsaka Bháradvája
  • Ahimsaka Sutta.-Records the interview between the Buddha and Ahimsaka Bháradvája (S.i.164).
  • Ahimsaka.-The earlier name of Angulimála (q.v.).
  • Ahinága.-Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy suggests that the word "Ahinága," appearing in Vinaya (i.25), is a proper name, like Ahicchatta. For a discussion see JAOS. vol. 55, 391-392 (notes).
  • Ahinda Sutta
  • Ahipáraka
  • Ahipeta
  • Ahirika Sutta
  • Ahirikamúlaká cattáro Sutta.-Four suttas based on the fact that like coalesces with like, the shameless with the shameless, etc. S.ii.162f.
  • Ahogangá
  • Áhuneyya Sutta/Vagga
  • Ajacca.-One of the disciples mentioned in the Sílavímamsana Játaka as having tried to win their teacher's daughter and failed. J.iii.19.
  • Ajagara
  • Ajajjara Sutta.-See Ajara Sutta.
  • Ajakalápaka
  • Ajakaraní
  • Ájáni Sutta
  • Ájániya Sutta.-Three discourses identical, in the main, with the Ájańńa 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.
  • Ájańńa Játaka (No. 24)
  • Ájańńa Sutta
  • Ajapála.-Son of the chaplain of King Esukárí (q.v.). He renounced the world with his three elder brothers. He was Anuruddha in the present age (J.iv.476ff).
  • Ajapala-nigrodha
  • Ajara Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the undecaying and the path thereto (Ajajjara).
  • Ajarasá Sutta.-Preached to a deva in praise of wisdom. S.i.36.
  • Ajatasattu
  • Ajelaka-Sutta.-Many are those who do not abstain from accepting goats and sheep. S.v.472.
  • Ajinadáyaka.-A Thera who later became arahant. He gave a piece of antelope skin to Sikhí Buddha. Five kappas ago he was a cakkavatti, Sudáyaka. Ap.i.213-14.
  • Ajita
  • Ajitajana. A king of the race of Mahásammata. His descendants reigned in Kapilapura. MT.127; Dpv.iii.17 calls him Abhitatta.
  • Ajitakesakambala (Ajitakesakambalí)
  • Ajitańjaya.-King of Ketumati. He was a previous birth of Todeyya Thera.
  • Ajitapuccha or Ajitapańhá.-Second sutta of the Paráyanavagga of the Sutta Nipáta. See Ajita-(mánava).
  • Ajitarattha (Addika- or Addila-rattha).-The country in which the setthi Ghosita was born, in a previous life, as a poor man named Kotúhalaka. DA.i.317; DhA.i.169f.
  • Ajita-Thera
  • Ájívaká
  • Ájívaka Sutta
  • Ajivaka.-Given as a possible name. J.i.403.
  • Ajjhattikanga Sutta.-The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 77) to a sutta of the Itivuttaka on the virtues of yoniso-manasikára. Itv.9f.
  • Ajjhohára.-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. J.v.462.
  • Ajjuhattha-pabbata.-See Ambahattha-pabbata.
  • Ajjuka
  • Ajjuna
  • Ajjunapupphiya Thera.-Probably identical with Sambhúta Thera.
  • Akalanka.-A Cola officer who fought against the Singhalese army of Parakkamabáhu I. during the latter's invasion of the Pandu kingdom. Cv.lxxvii.17, 55, 80, 90.
  • Akálarávi Játaka (No. 119)
  • Akanitthá devá
  • Ákankha Vagga
  • Ákankheyya Sutta
  • Akarabhanda.-A village in Ceylon dedicated by King Kittisirirájasíha to the Tooth-relic. Cv.c.23.
  • Ákása Sutta
  • Ákásacetiya
  • Ákásagangá
  • Ákásagotta. See Sańjaya-Akásagotta.
  • Ákásagotta.-A physician of Rájagaha 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 offence (Vin.i.215-16).
  • Ákásánańcáyatanúpagádevi
  • Ákásukkhipiya 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. Ap.i.230.
  • Akatańńu Játaka (No. 90)
  • Akatti.-See Akitti.
  • Akatuńńatá Sutta 1.-One who is of bad conduct in deed, word and thought, and is ungrateful; is born in purgatory. A.ii.226.
  • Akatuńńatá Sutta 2.-Same as above. A.ii.229.
  • Akhilá.-Chief woman disciple of Sikhí (Bu.xxi.21); the Commentary calls her Makhilá. BuA.204; also J.i.41.
  • Ákińcańńa Sutta
  • Ákińcáyatanúpagádevá.-A class of devas born in the Ákińcáyatana, the third Arúpa world (M.iii.103). Their life term is sixty thousand kappas. AbhS.23.
  • Akitti (v.l. Akatti)
  • Akitti Játaka (No. 480)
  • Akitti-dvára.-The gate through which Akitti left the city. J.iv.237.
  • Akitti-tittha.-The ford by which Akitti crossed the river after he left Benáres. J.iv.237.
  • Akkamaníya Sutta.-The uncultivated mind is an intractable thing and conduces to great loss; the cultivated mind has the opposite qualities. A.i.5f.
  • Akkamaníya Vagga.-The third section of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.i.5-6.
  • Akkantasańńaka 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. Ap.i.211f.
  • Akkhakhanda.-A section of the Vidhurajátaka which deals with events leading up to the surrendering of Vidhura by the king, when the latter lost his wager with Punnaka. J.vi.286.
  • Akkhakkháyika
  • 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.  A.iv.225f.
  • Akkhana-Kosa.-See Ekakkhara Kosa.
  • 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.
  • Akkharamálá.-A short treatise in Páli stanzas on the Páli and Singhalese alphabets, by Nágasena, a Ceylon scholar of the eighteenth century. P.L.C.285.
  • Akkharavisodhaní.-A late Pali work written in Burma. Sás.154.
  • Akkhipújá
  • Akkosa Sutta/Vagga
  • Akkosaka Bháradvája Vatthu.-The story of Akosaka- Bháradvája given above. DhA.iv.161f.
  • Akkosaka Vagga.-The twenty-second section of the Páńcakanipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iii.252-6.
  • Akkosaka-Bháradvája
  • Akodha-avihimsá Sutta.-On mildness and kindness, the verses being put into the mouth of Sakka. S.i.240.
  • Akodhana Sutta.-See Accaya-akodhana Sutta.
  • Ákotaka
  • Akusala Sutta.-The man who is sinful in action of body, speech and mind is born in purgatory. A.i.292.
  • Akusaladhamma Sutta.-On the unprofitable and profitable states. S.v.18.
  • Akusalamúla Sutta.-On the three roots of demerit: greed, malice and delusion. A.i.201; cf. M.i.47, 489.
  • Alagaddúpama Sutta
  • Alagakkonára
  • Alagvánagiri.-A locality in South India, captured by the forces of Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvii.12.
  • Áláhanaparivena
  • Alajanapada.-A district which the thera Isidatta visited on his return journey from a pilgrimage to the Mahá-Vihára. The children of Alajanapada collected some fruit-rinds, which had been left behind by the fruit-gatherers, and gave them to Isidatta and his companion, Mahásona. It is said that this was the only meal they had for a week. VibhA.447.
  • Alaka
  • Alaká.-The town of the god Kubera (Cv.lxxiv.207; lxxx.5), evidently another name for Álakamandá.
  • Alakadeva
  • Álakamandá
  • Alakhiya-ráyara.-One of the Tamil generals who fought on the side of Kulasekhara against Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvi.145.
  • Alakkhí.-The goddess of Ill-luck. She delights in men of evil deeds. J.v.112-14.
  • Álamba
  • Álambagáma.-A tank in Ceylon built by Jetthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.131.
  • Álambanadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past birth he gave an álambana (prop?) to the Buddha Atthadassí. Sixty kappas ago he was born three times as king under the name of Ekápassita. Ap.i.213.
  • Álambara
  • Álambáyana
  • Alambusá
  • Alambusa Játaka (No. 523)
  • Alandanágarájamahesí
  • Alankáranissaya.-A scholiast on Sangharakkhita's Subodhálankára, written by a Burmese monk in A.D. 1880. Bode, op. cit., 95.
  • Alára
  • Álára Káláma
  • Alára Káláma.-See Álára Káláma.
  • Álára.-See Alára.
  • 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 lasiká, the synovial fluid. Dial.iii.12, n.2.
  • Alasandá
  • Aláta
  • Alattúru.-Name of two Damila chiefs in the army of Kulasekhara. They took part in various battles and were eventually conquered by the forces of Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvi.140, 184, 214, 217, 220, 305.
  • Álava Sutta.-Records the conversation between the Buddha and Álavaka Yakkha (q.v.) at Álavi. S.i.213-15.
  • Álavaka (Sutta)
  • Álavaká (v.l. Álaviká)
  • Álavaka-gajjita.-Mentioned in a list of works considered by Buddhaghosa to be heretical. SA.ii.150; Sp.iv.742.
  • Álavaka-pucchá
  • Álavandapperumála
  • Álaví
  • Álavi-Gotama.-A thera, who, according to Buddhaghosa (SnA.ii.606), attained arahantship through faith. He is mentioned in the Sutta Nipáta (vers.1146) in a verse spoken by the Buddha to Pingiya when the Buddha appeared in a ray of light at Bávarí's hermitage.
  • Álaviká 1.-See Álavaká.
  • Álaviká 2. A nun. See Selá.
  • Álaviká Sutta.-Contains the conversation between Álaviká (Selá) and Mara which ended in the latter's discomfiture. S.i.128f.
  • Áligáma.-A stronghold in the Álisára district on the banks of the modern Ambanganga. Here Parakkamabáhu's forces fought a decisive battle with those of Gajabáhu. Cv.lxx.113ff, and Geiger's note thereon in the Cv.Trs.i.296, n.4.
  • Alínacitta Játaka (No. 156)
  • Alínacitta.-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 Alínacitta Játaka.
  • Alínasattu
  • Álindaka.-Probably the name of a monastery in Ceylon where lived the thera Mahá Phussadeva. SA.iii.154; VibhA.352.
  • Álisára
  • Allakappa
  • Áloka Sutta.-There are four lights: of the moon, the sun, of fire and of wisdom, the light of wisdom being the chief. A.ii.139.
  • Álokalena
  • Alomá (Aloná?)
  • Áluvadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he gave an áluva (fruit?) to the Pacceka Buddha Sudassana, near Himavá. Ap.i.237.
  • Amabavitthi.-A village in the north of Ceylon. It was the birthplace of Culatissa Thera. Ras.ii.30.
  • Amaccharí Sutta.-A woman should not be stingy and she should be wise. S.iv.244.
  • Amadha.-See Damatha.
  • Ámagandha (Sutta)
  • Ámakadhańńa-peyyala.-The ninth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya. It contains a list of the gifts which Ariyan monks abstain from accepting. S.v.470-3.
  • Ámalacetiya.-A thupa in Ceylon. It is not known who built it. Aggabodhi I. erected a parasol over it. Cv.xlii.62.
  • Ámalakívana Amalakivana.-A grove at Cátumá. The Buddha once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the Cátuma Sutta was preached. M.i.456.
  • Ámandagámaní Abhaya
  • Ámandaphaladáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth, while carrying a pingo laden with fruit, he saw the Buddha Padumuttara and offered him an ámanda fruit (pumpkin?). In the present age he became an arahant. Ap.ii.459.
  • Amara
  • Amará (Amarádeví)
  • Amarádeví-pańha
  • Amaragiri
  • Amarapura
  • Amaravatí
  • Amarinda.-Name given to Sakka, king of the gods. E.g., ThagA.151, 112.
  • Amaruppala.-The name borne by Kákavannatissa when he was a hunter in a village near Amaruppala-lena. Ras.ii.56.
  • Amaruppala-lena.-A cave in the Malaya province of Ceylon. Kákavannatissa was once born in a hunters' village near it. Ras.ii.56.
  • Amata (Sutta / Vagga)
  • Amatadundubhi.-One of the names under which the Bahudhátuka 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. MA.ii.888.
  • Amba Játaka (No. 124, 474)
  • Amba Sutta.-The four kinds of mangoes (ripe, etc.) and four corresponding classes of monks. A.ii.106f.
  • Ambacora Játaka (No. 344)
  • Ambadáyaka Thera
  • Ambadugga.-A tank in Ceylon, built by Kutakannatissa. Mhv.xxxiv.33.
  • Ambagáma
  • Ambahattha
  • Ambakhádaka-Mahátissa.-See Mahátissa (3).
  • Ambala.-Probably the name of a tower in the Jetavana monastery. The Sunakha Játaka 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 Parakkamabáhu I., under Rakkha, were victorious in battle. Cv.lxxiv.58.
  • Ambalatthiká
  • Ambalatthika-Ráhulováda Sutta
  • Ambálavana.-See Ambátaka.
  • Ambálavápi.-A tank restored by Parakkamabáhu I. (Cv.lxviii.46) A canal known as Tambapanní flowed from the tank northwards. Cv.lxxix.50.
  • Ambámacca
  • Ambamála Vihára.-A monastery in Rohana built by Dappula I. Cv.xlv.55.
  • Ambanganatthána
  • Ambapálí (Ambapáliká)
  • Ambapáli Sutta
  • Ambapáli Vagga.-The first chapter of the Satipatthána Samyutta in the Mahávagga of the Samyutta Nikáya (S.v.141-8).
  • Ambapálivana
  • Ambapásána.-A monastery in the village of Anganakola in South Ceylon, where lived the Elder Cittagutta. MT.552.
  • Ambapindiya Thera
  • Ambara-Ambaravatí.-The double name of a city in Uttarakuru. D.iii.201; DA.iii.966.
  • Ambaramsa.-See Abbhasa.
  • Ambariya Vihara.-A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Pingala-Buddharakkhita Thera. It was near Antaravaddhamana-pabbata (SA.ii.113; MA.i.165; DhsA.103). It was also the residence of Pindapátika-Tissa Thera. AA.i.277.
  • Ambasakkhara
  • Ambasakkharapeta Vatthu.-The story of Ambasakkhara and 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. PvA.243-4.
  • Ambasámanera.-Name of Silákála. When he was a novice in the Order, at Bodhimanda Vihára, 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. Cv.xxxix.48ff.
  • Ambasanda
  • Ambasuppiya.-See Appihá.
  • Ambátaka Thera.-An arahant. Fourteen kappas ago he had given a mango to a Buddha (Ap.ii.394). He is probably identical with Rájadatta Thera. ThagA.i.403.
  • Ambátakavana
  • Ambátakiya Them.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he had met the Buddha Vessabhú in the mountains and given him a mango. Ap.ii.399.
  • Ambatittha
  • Ambatitthaka
  • Ambattha
  • Ambattha Sutta
  • Ambattha-gotta
  • Ambatthaja.-Seventy kappas ago there were fourteen kings of this name, all former lives of Ambadáyaka Thera. Ap.i.117.
  • Ambatthakola
  • Ambatthala
  • Ambattha-vijjá
  • Ambavana
  • Ambavápi.-A tank at Búkakalla in Ceylon. It was given over to the Mátambiya-padhánaghara by the Damila, Potthakuttha. Cv.xlvi.19-20.
  • Ambavásavápi.-One of the tanks restored by Parakkamabáhu I. before his great war. Cv.lxviii.43. For identification see Cv. trans. i.280, n.5.
  • Ambayágadáyaka 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. Appaş).
  • Ambayágu(yága ?)-dáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had met a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsí, when the latter had just awakened from samádhi, and had given him a broth (?) made of mangoes (Ap.i.284).
  • Ambilahára Vihára
  • Ambila-janapada.-A district in Ceylon. In it was the Rajatalena. MT.400.
  • Ambilapassava
  • Ambilápika.-A village given by Jetthatissa III. for the supply of food to Kassapagirivihára. Cv.xliv.98.
  • Ambilayágu.-A village in Ceylon. It was the residence of Dáthánáma, father of Dhátusena. Cv.xxxviii.15.
  • Ambillapadara.-A village given by Aggabodhi III. to the Cetiyapabbata monastery. Cv.xliv.122.
  • Ambutthi.-A tank built by Upatissa II. Cv.xxxvii.185.
  • Ambuyyána.-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 Mahádeva. It was finished later by Sena I. Cv.l.80.
  • Ámisakińcikkha 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. S.ii.234.
  • Amitá
  • Amita.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous birth of Aggapupphiya Thera (v.l. Amitobhava, Amitogata). Ap.i.229.
  • Amitábha.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous birth of Ekasańńaka Thera. Ap.i.210.
  • Amitabhogá.-Five setthís in Bimbisára's dominions, whose wealth was limitless. They were Jotiya, Jatila, Mendaka, Punnaka, and Kákavaliya. AA.i.220; for details see s.v.
  • Amitańjala.-A king of fourteen kappas ago; a previous birth of Sálapupphiya Thera (v.l. Asitańjala). Ap.i.219.
  • Amitobhava.-See Amita.
  • Amitodana
  • Amitta.-See Somamitta.
  • Amittabhá.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a former life of Bhojanadáyaka Thera (v.l. Amittaka). Ap.i.253.
  • Amittaka.-See Amittabhá.
  • Amittatápaná
  • Amittatápana.-A king of seventeen kappas ago; a previous life of Pavittha Thera (ThagA.i.185), probably to be identified with Ekadamsaniya of the Apadána (i.168).
  • Amoraphaliya Thera
  • Anabhirati Játaka (No. 65, 185)
  • Anabhirati Sutta.-The idea of distaste for all the world, if cultivated, is fruitful. S.v.132.
  • Anabhirati-bhikkhu Vatthu
  • 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.
  • Anágámí Sutta.-The six qualities necessary for the third Fruit of the Path. A.iii.421.
  • Anágámi-thera Vatthu.-Story of a monk who became anágámi; when asked by his pupils, however, he did not say anything regarding his attainment. After death he was born in the Suddhávásá. His pupils, grieving for him in their ignorance, were enlightened by the Buddha. DhA.iii.288-9.
  • Anágata Sutta.-The five kinds of anticipatory fears that should make a forest-dwelling monk zealous and active. A.iii.100f.
  • Anágatavamsa
  • Ánaka (v.l. Ánnaka)
  • Análaya Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the destruction of attachment and the path leading thereto. S.iv.372.
  • 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. A.ii.69f.
  • Ánańcáyatana Sutta.-On the three infinite spheres: infinite space, infinite consciousness, and sphere of nothingness. A.i.267.
  • Ánanda
  • Ánandá
  • Ánanda Sutta/Vagga
  • Ánanda-bhaddekaratta Sutta
  • Ánandabodhi
  • Ánandakumára
  • Ánandamánava.-See Ánanda (17).
  • Ánandena 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. S.iii.187-8.
  • Anangana Játaka
  • Anangana Sutta.-A record of a conversation between Sáriputta and Moggallána on the nature of blemishes (anganáni) and on the benefits of recognising and removing them. M.i.24ff.
  • Ánańjasappáya Sutta
  • Ánańjasappáya Sutta.-See Ánańjasappáya Sutta.
  • Ananta.-The serpent king referred to under Anantapokkharaní, but not elsewhere mentioned in the old books. He is also called Anantabhoga. For details see Hopkins' Epic Mythology (pp. 23-4).
  • Anantajálí.-King. A previous birth of Bhájanadáyaka fifty-three kappas ago (Antarajáli). Ap.i.218.
  • Anantajina
  • Anantakáya
  • Anantapokkharaní.-A pond constructed by Parakkamabahu I. in Pulatthipura. The steps surrounding the pond were laid like the coils of the serpent-king Ananta. Cv.lxxiii.120.
  • Anantarabhandaka-tittha.-A ford in the Maháváluka-gangá in Ceylon. Cv.lxxii.16.
  • Anantarapeyyála.-One of the sections of the Vidhura Játaka. J.vi.304.
  • Anantavá Sutta.-On the world as being unlimited. S.iii.215.
  • Ananusociya Játaka (No. 328)
  • Ananussuta Sutta.-The five-fold power of a Tathágata. A.iii.9f.
  • Ananutappiya Sutta.-Preached by Sáriputta on how a monk should deport himself so as to have no occasion for repentance. A.iii.294f.
  • Ánápána Kathá.-The third section of the Mahávagga of the Patisambhidámagga. Ps.i.162ff.
  • Ánápána Samyutta.-The fifty-fourth section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.v.311-41.
  • Ánápána Sutta.-The idea of in-breathing and out-breathing, if cultivated and developed, leads to much profit. S.v.132.
  • Ánápána Vagga.-The seventh chapter of the Bojjhanga Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.v.129-32.
  • Ánápánasati Sutta
  • Anásava Sutta.-The Buddha teaches that which is free from ásavas and the way thereto. S.iv.369.
  • Anásava.-A Pacceka Buddha found in a list of Pacceka Buddhas. He lived in Isigili. M.iii.70; Ap.i.107.
  • Anatam Sutta.-See Anta.
  • Anátha.-A Pacceka Buddha of thirty-one kappas ago. Uddálapupphiya Thera, in a previous birth, offered him an uddála-flower. Ap.i.288.
  • Anáthapindika
  • Anáthapindika Sutta/Vagga
  • Anáthapindika-putta-Kála Vatthu.-Story of the conversion of Anáthapindika's son Kála (q.v.). DhA.iii.189-92.
  • Anáthapindika-Setthi Vatthu.-Story of the goddess, guardian of Anáthapindika's gate.
  • Anáthapindikassáráma.-See Jetavana.
  • Anáthapindikováda Sutta
  • Anaticárí Sutta.-A woman who is no adulteress will be born in heaven. S.iv.244.
  • Anatta Sutta
  • Anattá Sutta
  • Anattalakhana Sutta/Vatthu
  • Anattaniya Sutta.-For that which does not belong to the self, desire must be put away. S.iii.78.
  • Anattena Sutta.-Lust and desire for that which is without a self should be put away. S.iii.178.
  • Anatthapucchakabráhmana 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.
  • Anatthatáya Sutta.-Negligence (pamáda) conduces to great loss. A.i.16.
  • Ańcanavana.-See Ańjanavana.
  • Andabharígámakútaka Sutta
  • Andabhúta Játaka (No. 62)
  • Andhá
  • Andha Sutta.-On the three classes of persons: the blind, the one-eyed, and the two-eyed (A.iii.128f).
  • Andhabhúta Sutta.-See Addhabhúta Sutta.
  • Andhaká
  • Andhakára Sutta.-The ignorance of Ill, its arising, etc., is greater and more fearsome than the darkness of interstellar space (lokantarika). S.v.454-5.
  • Andhakára Vagga.-The second section of the Pácittiya in the Bhikkhuní-vibhanga. Vin.iv.268-71.
  • Andhakára.-A village in Ceylon, one of the villages given by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the Padhána-ghara built by the king for the Thera Dáthásiva. Cv.xlvi.12.
  • Andhakarattha.-See Andhaká (1).
  • Andhakavenhu
  • Andhakavenhu-(dása)-puttá
  • Andhakavinda
  • Andhakavinda Bráhmana.-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., UdA.112.
  • Andhakavinda Sutta/Vagga
  • Andhanáraka.-One of the villages given by Aggabodhi IV, for the maintenance of the Padhána-ghara built for the Elder Dáthásiva. Cv.xlvi.13.
  • Andhapura
  • Andhatthakathá.-One of the Commentaries used by Buddhaghosa (Sp.iv.747). It was handed down at Káńcipura (Conjevaram) in South India.
  • Andhavana
  • Andu.-A village near Pulatthipura. Cv.lix.5.
  • Anejaká.-A class of devas mentioned as having been present on the occasion of the preaching of the Mahá-Samaya Sutta. D.ii.160.
  • Anekavanna
  • Anekavannavimána.-The abode of Anekavanna-devaputta. Vv.74-5.
  • Anga
  • Anga Sutta
  • Anga.-Chieftains of Anga, so called, according to the Digha Nikáya Commentary (i.279), because of the beauty of their limbs. Their name was customarily (rúlhi-vasena) used to denote their country.
  • Angagáma.-A tank built by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxix.37.
  • Angaka.-Nephew (sister's son) of Sonadanda (q.v.). D.i.123.
  • Angamu.-A place in Ceylon identified with the modern Ambagamuva (Geiger Cv. trans. i.298, n. 3). The Senápati Deva once encamped there. Cv.lxx.130.
  • Anganakola.-A village in South Ceylon, the residence of Ambapásána-vásí-Cittagutta. MT.552.
  • Anganasálaka.-A village given by Aggabodhi II. to the Abhaya(giri-)vihara. Cv.xlii.63.
  • Angáni Sutta 1.-The five qualities of exertion (padhána). A.iii.65.
  • Angáni 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. A.v.16-17.
  • Anganika-Bháradvája
  • Angarájá.-The chieftain of Anga in the Buddha's time. See Anga.
  • Angárapabbata.-A blazing mountain of white hot coal, one of the tortures of the Mahániraya. Kvu.597.
  • Angati
  • Angika Sutta.-On the development of the fivefold Ariyan Samádhi. A.iii.25-9.
  • Angirasa (Angírasa)
  • Angírasí.-A term of affection (Radiant One) used by Pańcasikha in addressing Suriyavaccasá (D.ii.265). The Commentary (DA.iii.701) explains that she was so called because her limbs shone (ange rasmiyo assáti Angírasí.)
  • Angulimála (Angulimálaka)
  • Angulimála Paritta.-See above; referred to also in the Milindapańha (p.151) in a list of Parittas.
  • Angulimála Sutta.-Contains the story of the bandit's conversion and the bliss of his deliverance. M.ii.97ff.
  • Angulimála-pitaka.-Given in a list of heretical works. SA.ii.150; Sp.iv.742.
  • Anguttara Nikáya
  • Anguttaranavatíká.-By Sáriputta, author also of Sarátthadípaní-Vinaya-tíká (q.v.). Gv.71.
  • Anguttarápa
  • Anguttara-tíká.-By Candagomi, evidently an author of Ceylon. Svd.v.1201.
  • Anguttaratthakathá.-Quoted in the exegesis to the Játaka. J.i.131.
  • Áni Sutta
  • Anicca Sutta / Vagga
  • Aniccá Sutta.-On the seven kinds of persons who are worthy of homage and of gifts. A.iv.13-14.
  • Aniccadhamma Sutta.-Desire for that whose nature is impermanent should be destroyed. S.iii.199.
  • Aniccatá Sutta
  • Anidassana Sutta.-The invisible and the path leading thereto. S.iv.370.
  • Anígha.-A Pacceka Buddha; occurs in a list of Pacceka Buddhas. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
  • Anikadatta.-See Anikaratta.
  • Aníkanga
  • Anikaratta.-Ruler of Váranavatí. He came to Mantávatí as a suitor for the hand of Sumedhá, but did not succeed in his quest, as Sumedhá became a bhikkhuní after having converted Anikaratta and his retinue. (Anikadatta). Thig.v.462-515; ThigA.272f; Ap.ii.512.
  • Ánimandavya.-See Animandavya.
  • Animandavya.-See Mandavya.
  • Animisa-cetiya
  • Animitta Sutta.-Preached by Moggallána ; it records an occasion when he experienced unconditioned rapture of the heart (animittaceto-samádhi). S.iv.268.
  • Aniruddha.-See Anuruddha.
  • Ánisamsa Sutta.-On the six advantages of realising the first fruit of the Path (Sotápattiphala). A.iii.441.
  • Ánisamsa Vagga
  • Anissukí Sutta.-A woman who is faithful, modest, scrupulous, not wrathful and rich in wisdom, will be reborn in a happy condition. S.iv.244.
  • Anítika Sutta and Anítikadhamma Sutta.-On the state that is free from ill and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
  • Anitthigandhakumára
  • Anitthigandhakumára Vatthu.-See Anitthigandhakumára (3).
  • Anivatta Brahmadatta
  • Aniyata.-The third division of the Párájika of the Sutta Vibhanga. Vin.iii.187-94.
  • Ańjalí.-One of the nuns who accompanied Sanghamittá to Ceylon. Dip.xviii.24.
  • Ańjana
  • Ańjanadevi
  • Ańjana-pabbata.-One of the six peaks of the Himálaya 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 Jotipála, had his hermitage there. J.v.133.
  • Anjana-vana (Ańcana-vana)
  • Ańjanavaniya Thera
  • Ańjanavasabha
  • Ańjasa.-A king of two kappas ago, father of Sunanda, a previous birth of Upáli. Ap.i.45, v.111; ThagA.i.367.
  • 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. Ap.i.199.
  • Ankolaka-pupphiya Thera
  • Ankura
  • Ankura Vatthu.-The story of Ankura. DhA.iv.80-2.
  • Ankurapeta Vatthu.-See Ankura. According to MA.i.225 and DA.i.178, in this story the word brahmacariya is used to mean veyyávacca (service).
  • 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 GS.ii.96. n.1.
  • Ańńa Sutta.-On the results of developing the four satipatthána. S.v.181.
  • Annabhára
  • Ańńamjivám ańńamsaríram Sutta.-That the body is one thing and the soul another is the view held by some people. S.iii.215.
  • Ańńaná Sutta.-Five of the same name recording conversations with the paribbájaka Vacchagotta regarding the results of ignorance. S.iii.257-9.
  • Annasamsávaka
  • Ańńáta-Kondańńa (Ańńá-Kondańńa) Thera
  • Ańńatara Sutta 1.-On the chain of causation. S.ii.75-6.
  • Ańńatara Sutta 2.-Few are born among men because beings do not see the four Ariyan truths. S.v.465.
  • Ańńatara° Vatthu.-Several stories given in the Dhammapada Commentary are designated only by such titles as Ańńatara-itthi vatthu, Ańńatara-kutumbika vatthu, etc. For reference to such stories see DhA. Index (Vol. v.).
  • Ańńatara-Bhikkhu Sutta.-Two of this name containing questions on the holy life and the destruction of the ásavá. S.v.7-8.
  • Ańńatara-Brahma Sutta.-A certain Brahmá thought no recluse or brahmin could come to his world. The Buddha, Mogallána, Mahákassapa, Mahákappina and Anuruddha all appeared there and refuted his views. S.i.144f.
  • Ańńatitthiya Bhánavára.-Ends the sixteenth chapter of the second khandhaka of the Mahávagga. Vin.i.115.
  • Ańńatitthiya Sutta.-Describes a visit of Sáriputta to some heretical teachers in Rájagaha and the discussions that ensued. Ananda reports the incident to the Buddha, who approves and explains the questions further. S.ii.32f.
  • Ańńatitthiya 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.
  • Ańńatitthiya Vagga.-Several discourses on the views of other teachers. S.v.27f.
  • Anodhi Sutta.-Three suttas on the development of unlimited reflection of anicca, dukkha and anattá. A.iii.443f.
  • Anojá
  • Anoma
  • Anomá
  • Anomadassí
  • Anomáráma
  • Anomasatta.-An epithet of the Buddha. UdA.304; KhA.170.
  • Anomiya Sutta.-Contains verses in praise of the Buddha who is called the Peerless (Anonianáma) (S.i.33). The verses are found also in the Sutta Nipáta (Sn.p.177).
  • Anopamá
  • Anopama.-Birthplace of the Vessabhú Buddha and capital of his father, King Suppatíta. D.ii.7; but Bu.xxii.18 gives it as Anoma. The BuA. (p. 205) calls it Anúpama.
  • Anorata.-The name by which Anuruddha (Anawrata), King of Burma (Ramańńa), is generally known. He was a religious reformer and was helped in his task by a Talaing monk, Arahanta. Bode: Páli Lit. of Burma, pp. 11-13.
  • Anotatta
  • Anottapá Sutta.-Records a conversation between Mahákassapa and Sáriputta in Isipatana. A man without ardour (anátápí) and without care (a-nottápí) is incapable of Enlightenment and Nibbana. S.ii.195f.
  • Anottappamúlaká-tíni Sutta.-Through an element (dhátuso) 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 Játaka (No. 295)
  • Anta Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the end, as well as the way thereto. See also Antá Sutta. (S.iv.373).
  • Antá Sutta.-The four separate divisions: Sakkáya, its arising, ceasing, and the way thereto. S.iii.157-8.
  • Anta Vagga.-The first chapter of the Uparipańńásaka of the Khanda Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya (S.iii.157ff).
  • Antaka.-See Mára.
  • Antalikkhacara.-A king who reigned thirty-two kappas ago; Áká-sukkhipiya Thera in a previous birth. Ap.i.230.
  • Antaraganga.-A district in Ceylon. Ras.ii.10.
  • Antaráganga.-A monastery in Ceylon to which Jetthatissa III. gave the village of Cullamátika. Cv.xliv.100.
  • Antaramegiri.-A monastery built by King Dhátusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
  • Antarapeyyála.-A section of the Nidána Samyutta containing twelve suttas with abridged contents. S.ii.130ff.
  • Antarasobbha
  • Antaravaddhamána
  • Antaravitthi
  • Antavá Sutta.-The origin of the view that the world is limited. S.iii.214.
  • Antevásí Sutta.-A monk dwells at ease without a pupil or a teacher, the pupil or co-resident (antevásí) 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" (ácariya) 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 Padhána-ghara, which he built for the Thera Dáthá-siva. Cv.xlvi.13.
  • Anubuddha Sutta.-Preached at Bhandagáma, 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. S.iii.40-1.
  • Anugára.-An eminent wandering ascetic. He is mentioned as living in the Paribbájakáráma in the Moranivápa in Veluvana near Rájagaha. He was probably one of the company who was with Sakuludáyi when the Buddha came to visit the latter. M.ii.1.
  • Anuggaha Sutta.-Right belief is endowed with five advantages. A.iii.20-l.
  • Anujívisamiddha.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.33.
  • Anujjá (v.l. Anojá).-Wife of Vidhurapandita. She had a thousand sons whom she summoned to bid farewell to Vidhura when he went away with Punnaka (J.vi.290). She is depicted as a brave woman.
  • Anukampaka Sutta.-The five ways in which a resident monk shows his sympathy for his lay supporters. A.iii.263f.
  • Anukevatta
  • Anula
  • Anulá
  • Anulatissapabbata.-A vihára in Gangárájí in East Ceylon, built by Kanitthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
  • Anulepadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In Atthadassí's time he supplied plaster to a monk for carrying out some repairs to a building. Ap.i.251.
  • Anulomadáyaka Thera
  • Anumana Sutta
  • Anumánapańha
  • Anúna.-The name used by the yakkha Punnaka to hide from Dhańjaya his real name, lest he should be mistaken for a slave. The word has the same meaning as Punnaka. J.vi.273-4.
  • Anupada Sutta
  • Anupada Vagga.-The second section of the Uparipańńása of the Majjhima Nikáya. M.iii.25ff.
  • Anupádáya Sutta.-The holy life is lived with final emancipation, free from grasping, as its aim. S.v.29.
  • Anupalakkhaná Sutta.-Diverse views are the result of want of discrimination. S.iii.261.
  • Anupama
  • Anupamá
  • Anúpama Thera
  • Anupanáhí Sutta.-The woman who is not wrathful will be born in a happy condition. S.iv.244.
  • Anupiya (Anupiyá)
  • Anúpiya.-See Anupiya.
  • Anupubba
  • Anura.-A general of the Vanga king's army, maternal cousin of Síhabáhu, father of Vijaya. When Síhabáhu left the lion's den with his mother and sister they came across Anura who was ruling the border country. Later Anura married Síhabáhu's mother. Mv.vi.16-20; MT.246.
  • Anurádha
  • Anurádhagáma.-The name given to the settlement founded by the two Anurádhas. It was near the Kadamba-nadi (Mhv.ix.9; x.76). The capital, Anurádhapura, was later founded near it.
  • Anurádhapura
  • Anurája.-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.
  • Anuráráma
  • Anuruddha Sutta/Samyutta
  • Anuruddha Thera
  • Anusamsávaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past birth he gave a spoonful of rice to the Buddha Vipassí. Ap.i.247.
  • Anusásika Játaka (No. 115)
  • Anusásiká.-The name of the greedy bird in the Anusásika Játaka. J.i.429.
  • Anusaya Sutta
  • Anusayá Sutta.-On how the anusayá can be uprooted. S.iv.32.
  • Anusissa
  • 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. A.ii.5f.
  • 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. A.iii.312ff.
  • Anutíracárí.-An otter who had a dispute with another otter, Gambhíracárí, about a fish. They appealed to a jackal, Máyáví, 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.
  • Anuttarasangámavijaya (Dhammapariyáya).-One of the names by which the Bahudhátuka Sutta is known. M.iii.68.
  • Anuttáriya Sutta 1.-The six unsurpassables. A.iii.284.
  • Anuttáriya Sutta 2.-A detailed explanation of the above. A.iii.325f.
  • Anuttariya Vagga.-The third chapter of the Chakka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iii.309-29.
  • Anuvattaná Sutta.-Like a cakkavatti's eldest son, who, because of five qualities, administers the kingdom like his father, so does Sáriputta administer the Kingdom of Righteousness founded by the Buddha. A.iii.148-9.
  • Anuvindaká.-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 Hamsavatí. Ap.ii.359.
  • Anva Vagga.-See Addha Vagga.
  • Ápá
  • Apacara
  • Apacáyika Sutta.-See Pacáyika Sutta.
  • Apaccakkhakamma Suttá.-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. S.iii.262.
  • Apaccupalakkhaná Sutta.-Same as the above, only substituting "through not discriminating" for "through want of clearness." S.iii.261.
  • Apaccupekkhaná Sutta.-Same as the above, but substituting "through not looking into" for "through not discriminating." S.iii.262.
  • Apadána
  • Apadániya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he had eulogized the life history (apadánam kittayissam) of the Buddha. Ap.i.241.
  • Apadika.-A river. Vasabha Thera, in a previous birth as the jatila Nárada, erected on its banks a cetiya in memory of the Buddha. ThagA.i.258; Ap.ii.437.
  • Apagata Sutta.-Records a conversation between the Buddha and Ráhula in Jetavana. The Buddha explains how the mind is freed from notions of "I" and "mine." S.ii.253; see Ráhula Sutta (3).
  • Apalála
  • Apaláladamana.-See Apalála.
  • 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.
  • Ápana
  • Ápana Sutra.-See Saddha Sutta.
  • Ápána.-One of the Vanni chiefs of Ceylon, brought into subjection by Bhuvanekabáhu I. (Cv.xc.33)
  • Apannaka Játaka (No. 1)
  • Apannaka Sutta/Vagga
  • Apannakatá Sutta.-On the three qualities which make a monk proficient in following the sure course (apannakapatipadá): guarding the senses, moderation in eating and wakefulness. A.i.113f.
  • 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.
  • Apára Sutta
  • Aparáditthi Sutta
  • Aparagoyána
  • Aparagoyma.-See Gotama (3).
  • Aparájita
  • Aparanna
  • Aparantá.-Mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
  • Aparantaka (Aparanta)
  • Aparaseliyá
  • Apariháni Sutta.-There are seven things that decline not, viz., the seven bojjhangas. S.v.85; see also ibid., 94.
  • Aparihániya Sutta
  • Aparika.-See Apadika.
  • Apásádika Sutta.-Two discourses on the evils of being unamiable. A.iii.255-6.
  • Apassena.-A cakkavatti who lived six kappas ago; a previous birth of Árakkhadáyaka Thera. Ap.i.215.
  • Ápatti (Sutta/Vagga)
  • Ápáyika Sutta.-On three persons who are doomed to purgatory (A.i.265).
  • Ápáyika Vagga.-The twelfth chapter of the Tika Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.265-73). It contains ten suttas on various topics.
  • Apáyimha Vagga.-The ninth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játaka. J.i.360-79.
  • Apheggusára.-A treatise, of about the fourteenth century, on Abhidhamma topics, written by a scholar of Hamsavatí in Burma. Bode: op. cit., 36 and n.2; Sás.48.
  • Apheggusáradípaní-A book composed at Hamsavatí, probably by Mahásuvannadípa, teacher of Queen Sívalí. In Nevill's MS. Catalogue in the British Museum it is described as an anutíká dealing with matter in the Abhidhammatthavibhávaní. Bode: op. cit. 36, n.2.
  • Apilápiya.-A cakkavatti of eighty-six kappas ago; a former birth of Tikandípupphiya Thera. Ap.i.202.
  • Appacintí.-A fish who lived in the Ganges with his brothers Bahucintí and Mitacintí. He and Bahucintí were caught in a fisherman's net and were rescued by Mitacintí. The story is told in the Mitacintí Ját. (i.427-8).
  • Appaká (or Virata) Vagga.-The eighth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.v.468-70.
  • Appaka Sutta
  • Appamáda Sutta / Vagga
  • Appamádováda.-The name given to the stanzas in the Dhammapada (Nos. 21-23) on heedfulness. J.v.66.
  • Appamánábhá
  • Appamánasubhá
  • Appamateyya Sutta.-See Matteyya.
  • Appamatta Sutta.-See Asamatta.
  • Appamattaka Vagga.-The nineteenth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. 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). A.i.266.
  • 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.iv.242.
  • Appassuta Sutta 2.-Four classes of persons, some of small learning and some of wide learning. A.ii.6f.
  • Appativáni 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. S.ii.132.
  • Appativedhá Sutta.-Preached to Vacchagotta. Divers opinions arise in the world through want of perception of the nature of the body, etc. S.iii.261.
  • Appatividitá-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.
  • Appihá
  • Appiyá.-See Suppiyá.
  • Aputtaka
  • Aputtaka Sutta
  • Aputtasetthi Vatthu.-The story of Aputtaka given above. DhA.iv.76-80.
  • Árabbhavatthu Sutta.-On the eight occasions in which exertion should be applied. A.iv.334f.
  • Árabhati Sutta.-There are five kinds of people in the world. Those who commit faults and repent, etc. A.iii.165-7.
  • 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.).
  • Arahá 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 Dhammadassí before he became the Buddha. Bu.xvi.14.
  • Araka
  • Araka Játaka (No. 169)
  • Araka Sutta.-The teachings of Araka (q.v.). A.iv.136ff.
  • Árakkha 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?). A.ii.120.
  • Árakkhadáyaka Thera
  • Áráma Sutta.-See Sáriputta-Kotthita Sutta.
  • Áramá Vagga.-The sixth division of the Pacittiya of the Bhikkhuní Vibhanga (Vin.iv.306-17).
  • Árámadanda.-A brahmin.
  • Árámadáyaka 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 Mudusítala. Ap.i.251.
  • Árámadúsaka Játaka (No. 46, 268)
  • Árámassa.-A village in Ceylon, given by King Udaya I. for the maintenance of a Loharúpa (bronze statue) of the Buddha. Cv.xlix.17.
  • Árámikagáma
  • Arammá.-A tribe mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
  • Árammana Sutta
  • Araná 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 (S.i.44-5).
  • Aranadípiya Thera
  • Aranańjaha.-See Arunańjaha.
  • Aranavibhanga Sutta
  • Aranemi
  • Arani Sutta
  • Árańjara.-See Arańjara.
  • Arańjaragiri
  • Arańńa
  • Arańńa Játaka (No. 348)
  • Arańńa Sutta/Vagga
  • Árańńaka Maháabhaya
  • Árańńaka Sutta. The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 85) to the Anágata Sutta (q.v.).
  • Arańńakutiká
  • Arańńasatta.-A king of twenty kappas ago; a previous birth of Nimittasańńaka Thera (v.l. Arańńamanna; Arańńasanta). Ap.i.261.
  • Arańńavásí Nikáya
  • Arati
  • Arati Sutta
  • Aravacchá
  • Aravála
  • Áravála.-See Aravála.
  • Araváladaha.-The lake in which Aravála lived.
  • Arikárí.-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 pásáda (Cv.xlix.32).
  • Arimaddana
  • Arimaddavijayagáma.-A village and a tank. The Somavatí canal was built by Parakkamabáhu I. to connect the Arimaddavijayagáma with the Kaddúravaddhamána tank. Cv.lxxix.56.
  • Arimanda.-A city in which the Bodhisatta was born as the Khattiya Vijatáví in the time of the Buddha Phussa. BuA.194.
  • Arindama
  • Arittha (Sutta)
  • Arittha Vihára.-The monastery built by Lańjakatissa in Aritthapabbata. Mhv.xxxiii.27; Mhv.trans.230, n.6.
  • Aritthajanaka.-Son of King Mahájanaka, whom he succeeded as King of Mithilá. His brother was Polajanaka, the viceroy, who later killed him and captured his kingdom. Aritthajanaka's son was the Prince Mahájanaka, who was the Bodhisatta. J.vi.30-42.
  • Aritthaká
  • Aritthapabbata
  • Aritthapura.-A city in the kingdom of Sivi, over which King Sivi reigned (J.iv.401). It was also the birthplace of Ummadantí (J.v.212). It lay on the road from Mithilá to Pańcala. J.vi.419.
  • Arittha-thapita-ghara.-See Sirivaddhaghara (?).
  • Ariya (Sutta)
  • Ariyá Sutta.-The four iddhi-pádas, if cultivated, conduce to the utter destruction of Ill. They are ariyaniyyániká. S.v.255.
  • Ariyabálisika Vatthu.-The story of the fisherman Ariya given above, Ariya 2.
  • Áriyacakkavatti
  • Ariyagálatissa
  • Ariyagála-tittha. A ford, probably on the Maháváluka-nadí. Ras.ii.38.
  • Ariyákara Vihára. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
  • Ariyákari.-A monastery in Rohana in South Ceylon. Dappula gave it to the village of Málavatthu and built therein an image house. He also had a valuable unnaloma and a hemapatta made for the image there. Cv.xlv.60-l.
  • Ariyaka-Vihára. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.174.
  • Áriyakkhattayodhá
  • Ariyakoti.-A monastery (probably in Ceylon), the residence of Mahá Datta Thera. MA.i.131.
  • Ariyálankára
  • Ariyamagga Sutta/Vagga
  • Ariyamuni
  • Ariyapariyesaná Sutta
  • Ariyasávaka Sutta
  • Ariyavamsa
  • Ariyavamsálankára.-A book written by Ńánábhisásanadhaja Mahádhammarájaguru Thera of Burma, author of the Petakálankára and other books. Sás.134.
  • Ariyavasá Sutta.-The ten dwellings of Ariyans, past, present and future. A.v.29.
  • Árohanta
  • Aruka Sutta.-On the man whose mind is like an open sore, as opposed to one who is lightning-minded or diamond-minded. A.i.123f.
  • Aruna
  • Arunabala.-See below Arunapála.
  • Arunaka.-Thirty-six kappas ago there were seven kings of the name of Arunaka, all previous births of the Thera Vatthadáyaka (Ap.i.116).
  • Arunańjaha.-Seventy kappas ago there were sixteen kings of the name of Arunańjaha. They were all past births of Asokapújaka Thera (Ap.i.199).
  • Arunapála.-A king of thirty-five kappas ago, a former birth of Kanikárapupphiya Thera (who is evidently identical with Ujjaya, Ap.i.203). In the Theragáthá Commentary (i.119) he is called Arunabala.
  • Arunapura.-A city in the time of the Buddha Sikhí. Ambapálí was born there in a brahmin family (Ap.ii.613; ThigA.i.213). It is probably identical with Arunavatí.
  • Arunavá.-See Aruna (1).
  • Arunavatí (Sutta)
  • Arunavatí Paritta. Same as Arunavatí Sutta.
  • Arundhavatí.-See Amaravatí (2).
  • Aruppala.-One of the villages given by Kittisirirájasíha for the maintenance of the Gangáráma Vihára. Cv.c.212.
  • Ásá Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.86-8). It contains twelve suttas on various topics.
  • Ásá.-Daughter of Sakka.
  • Asaddha Sutta. Like joins with (literally "flows together with") like, unbelievers with unbelievers, the lazy with the lazy, etc. S.ii.159.
  • Asaddhamúlakápańca Sutta.-The same in its main features as the Asaddha Sutta. S.ii.160-1.
  • Asadisa
  • Asadisa Játaka (No. 181)
  • Asadisa Vagga.-The fourth section of the Duka Nipáta of the Játakatthakatha. J.ii.86-113.
  • Asadisadána
  • Asadisadána Vatthu.-The story of the Asadisadána and its sequel, the story of Pasenadi's two ministers Kála and Junha. See Kála.
  • Asallakkhaná Sutta.-Preached to the Paribbájaka Vacchagotta. Through want of discernment of the nature of the body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. S.iii.261.
  • Asama
  • Asamá
  • Asamáhita Sutta.-Like joins with like, e.g. the unconcentrated with the unconcentrated, because of some fundamental quality (dhátu) common to both. S.ii.166.
  • Asamapekkhaná Sutta.-By not seeing the nature of body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. Preached at Sávatthi to the Paribbájaka Vacchagotta. S.iii.261.
  • Asamatta Sutta
  • Asampadána Játaka (No. 131)
  • Asampadána Vagga.-The fourteenth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.465-86.
  • Asanabodhiya Thera
  • Ásanatthavika Thera
  • Asandhimittá
  • Asani Sutta
  • Ásanka Játaka (No. 380)
  • Ásanká.-The adopted daughter of the Bodhisatta in the Ásanka Játaka. She was so called because she came to him when he crossed the water owing to his doubt (ásanká) as to what was in the lotus. J.iii.250.
  • Asankhata Samyutta.-Also called Nibbána Samyutta. The forty-third section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.iv.359-73.
  • Asankhata Suttas.-A group of suttas describing the way to the uncompounded (asankhata). S.iv.362ff.
  • Asankiya Játaka (No. 76)
  • Asańńasattá
  • Asańńataparikkhára-bhikkhu Vatthu
  • Ásanupattháyaka Thera
  • Asappurisa Sutta
  • Asátamanta Játaka (No. 61)
  • Asátarúpa Játaka (No. 100)
  • Asattháráma.-The place where the Buddha Piyadassí died. Bu.xiv.27.
  • Ásava Sutta
  • Ásavakkhaya Sutta
  • Ásavánam-khaya Sutta.-By cultivating the five indriyas (saddhá, etc.) a monk in this very life realises the liberation by insight which is without the ásavas. S.v.203.
  • Ásávatí
  • Asayha
  • Asekhiya Sutta.-Five things which make a monk worthy of offerings, etc. A.iii.134.
  • Asela
  • Áseva 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).
  • Ásevitabba Sutta.-On the characteristics of the person who should be followed. A.i.124f.
  • Asibandhakaputta
  • Asiggáha Silákála.-See Silákála.
  • Asiggáhaka-parivena.-A building in the Thúpáráma. Ras.ii.123.
  • Asilakkhana Játaka (No. 126)
  • Ásimsa Vagga.-The sixth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.261-84.
  • 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.
  • Asisúkarika Sutta
  • Asita
  • Asita Devala
  • Asitábhu Játaka (No. 234)
  • Asitábhú.-Wife of Prince Brahmadatta. Her story is given in the Asitábhú Játaka.
  • Asitańjala.-See Amitańjala.
  • Asitańjana.-A city in the Kamsa district in Uttarápatha and capital of King Mahákamsa and the Andhakavenhudásaputta (J.iv.79; PvA.111). It was also the birthplace of the two merchants Tapassu and Bhalluka. AA.i.207.
  • Asíti Nipáta.-The twenty-first section of the Játakatthakathá (J.v.333-511).
  • Ásívisa Sutta/Vagga
  • Ásívisopama Sutta
  • Asoka
  • Asoká
  • Asokamálá
  • Asokamálaka
  • Asokapújaka Thera
  • Asokáráma
  • Assa Sutta
  • Assagutta Thera
  • Assaji (Sutta)
  • Assaji-Punabbasuká
  • Assaji-Punabbasuka-Vatthu.-The story of the visit of the Aggasávakas to the Assaji-Punabbasuká, mentioned above. DhA.ii.108-10.
  • Assaka
  • Assaka Játaka (No. 207).-The story of King Assaka (2). It was related to a monk who was distracted by the recollection of a former wife. He was Assaka in the previous birth. J.ii.158.
  • Assakanna.-One of the mountains round Sineru (SnA.ii.443; Sp.i.119). It is higher than Vinataka, and between these two flows the Sídantara Samudda. J.vi.125.
  • Assaláyana
  • Assaláyana Sutta.-Records the conversation between the Buddha and Assaláyana when the latter went to visit him. M.ii.147ff.
  • Assamandala
  • Assamukha.-One of the four rivers that flow out of the Anotatta Lake. Many horses are found on its banks. SnA.ii.438; UdA.301.
  • Assapála
  • Assapura
  • Assapura Suttas.-See Mahá Assapura and Cúla Assapura.
  • Assáráma.-The place of death of Sikhí Buddha (BuA.204). The Buddhavamsa (Bu.xxi.28) calls it Dussáráma.
  • Assároha.-Probably a nickname for the horse-trainer whose visit to the Buddha is recorded in the Assa Sutta. He is described as a gámani (head man of a village). S.iv.310.
  • Assása Sutta.-A conversation between Sáriputta and the Paribbájaka Jambukhádaka as to what constitutes comfort (assása) and how it might be won. S.iv.254.
  • Assatara
  • Assu Sutta.-Preached at Sávatthi. The tears shed by a person faring in Samsára, 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. S.ii.179-80.
  • Assutavá 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. S.iv.95.
  • 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
  • Asura Vagga/Sutta
  • Asurinda (Asurindaka) Sutta
  • Asurindaka Bháradvája
  • Átánátá.-A city in Uttarakuru, mentioned with Kusinátá, Parakusinátá and Nátápuriyá (D.iii.200).
  • Átánátiya Sutta
  • Átappa Sutta
  • Atappá-devá
  • Atarandá-mahábhodikkhandha.-A village in Rohana where the forces of Dhamiládhikári destroyed the rebels. Cv.lxxv.97.
  • Atata
  • Athabbana (Áthabbana)
  • Athalayunnáda.-A district in S. India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
  • Athalayúru-nadálvára.-A Damila chieftain. Cv.lxxvi.140, 260; lxxvii.27.
  • Aticári Sutta.-That an adulteress is born in purgatory. S.iv.242.
  • 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 Rammavatí. BuA.134.
  • Atimbara.-Minister of Dútthagámani. SdS.77.
  • Atimuttaka
  • Atimuttaka-sámanera Vatthu.-See Atimuttaka (2).
  • Atinivása Sutta.-The five evil results of long dwelling (atinivása). A.iii.258.
  • 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. J.i.405f.
  • Atítánágatapneuppanna Suttas.-Three in number. Seeing that the sankháras 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. S.iii.19-20.
  • Atítena 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. A.i.261.
  • Atta Sutta 1.-Self-possession is the forerunner of the Eightfold Path. S.v.36.
  • Atta Sutta 2.-The self-possessed monk develops the Eightfold Path. S.v.37.
  • Attadanda Sutta
  • Attadattha Thera
  • Attadípa 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. S.iv.42f.
  • Attadípa Vagga.-Of the Samyutta Nikáya (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. A.ii.97ff.
  • Attakára Sutta.-On individuality and non-individuality; preached in answer to a brahmin's questions. A.iii.337f.
  • Attakarana Sutta.-See Atthakarana Sutta.
  • Attálhidhátusena Vihára.-A monastery built by King Dhátusena. Cv.xxxviii.49.
  • Attantápa 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.
  • Attánuváda 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) (q.v.).
  • Atthadassí
  • Atthaka
  • Atthakáma Vagga.-The fifth section of Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.234-61.
  • Atthaka-nágara Sutta
  • Atthakanagara.-A city, from which came the householder Dasama who, while on a visit to Pátaliputta on business, went to see Ananda at Beluvagáma and questioned him (M.i.349f.; A.v.342-7). The conversation is recorded in the Atthaka-nágara Sutta.
  • Atthakarana Sutta
  • Atthakathácariyá.-Composers (?) of the Commentaries. They lived prior to Buddhaghosa, because he refers to them. E.g., AA.i.273.
  • Atthakathá-Thera.-Mentioned in the Dígha Commentary (iii.728) as being capable of solving the doubts that arose in the mind of Mahá Sívali Thera of the village hermitage.
  • Atthaka-Vagga/Sutta
  • Atthakula Sutta.-The reasons why certain families, having attained great possessions, fail to last long. A.ii.249f.
  • Atthama.-Pacceka Buddha, one of the names given in a list of such. M.iii.70; ApA.i.106.
  • Atthana Játaka
  • Atthána 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. A.i.26-30.
  • Atthánaparikappa Sutta
  • Atthangika (Magga) Sutta
  • Atthapuggala Sutta.-Two suttas on the eight persons who are worthy of homage and of gifts. A.iv.292, 293.
  • Atthasadda Játaka
  • 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.
  • Atthasáliní
  • Atthasandassaka Thera
  • Atthasata Sutta (°Pariyaya).-Method of describing the 108 feelings - thirty-six each of the past, present and future. S.iv.231.
  • Atthassadvára Játaka (No. 84)
  • Atthavasa Vagga.-The seventeenth chapter of the Duka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.98-100). It deals with the aims behind the Buddha's injunctions to monks with regard to the practice of samatha and vipassaná, to be employed as remedies against lust, etc.
  • Atthavyákhyána
  • Atthika Sutta.-A group of suttas dealing with the benefits occurring from meditating on skeletons. S.v.129ff.
  • Atthinukhopariyáya Sutta
  • Atthipesí Sutta.-Preached about a pets, a mere skeleton, seen near Gijjhakúta by Moggallána and Lakkhana. He had been a cattle-butcher in Rájagaha. S.ii.254.
  • Atthipuńja Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 21) for Puggala Sutta (1) (q.v.).
  • Atthirága Sutta.-All existence is the result of attachment to the four kinds of food: kabalinkára (solid food), phassa (contact), manosańcetaná (will), and vińńána (consciousness). This is explained with various similes. S.ii.101-4.
  • Atthisena
  • Atthisena Játaka (No. 403)
  • 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 (?).
  • Atula
  • Atulamba.-The mango tree produced by the juggler Bhandu-kanna to make Prince Mahápanáda 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. Ap.i.255.
  • Átumá
  • Átuma Thera
  • Avakannaka.-Given in the Pácittiya rules' as an example of a low name (hínanáma). Vin.iv.6ff.
  • Avandiya.-A Damila chief who fought on the side of Kulasekhara against Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvi.146.
  • Avantaphaladáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had given a fruit without a stalk (avanta) to a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsi. Ap.i.294.
  • Avanti
  • Ávantiká.-The name given to monks of Avanti who helped Yasa Kákandakaputta to overcome the heresy of the Vajjiputtakas. Mhv.iv.19ff.
  • Avantiputta
  • Ávarana Sutta.-There are five things that overwhelm the mind and weaken the insight: kámacchanda, vyápáda, thínamiddha, uddhaccakukkucca and vicikicchá. A.iii.63-4.
  • Ávarana-nívarana Sutta.-(Also called Nívaranávarana). 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. S.v.94-6.
  • Ávaranatá Sutta
  • Aváriya Játaka (No. 376)
  • Aváriya Vagga.-The first division of the Chakka Nipáta of the Játakatthakatha (J.iii.228-74).
  • Aváriyá.-Daughter of Aváriyapitá. J.iii.230.
  • Aváriyapitá.-The ferryman of the Aváriya Játaka.
  • Avaroja
  • Avaruddhaka
  • Ávásika Vagga.-The twenty-fourth chapter of the Pańaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of ten suttas dealing with the qualities of a resident monk which make him worthy of honour and agreeable, or otherwise. A.iii.261-7.
  • Avataphaliya Thera
  • Ávattagangá
  • Avavádaká
  • Avela.-One of the palaces used by the Buddha Revata in his last lay-life. Bu.vi.17.
  • Ávenika Sutta
  • Áveyya.-A king of fifty-nine kappas ago, a former birth of Samádapaka Thera. (v.l. Ávekkheyya). Ap.i.185.
  • Avíci
  • Avidúre Nidána
  • Avihá
  • Avihimsá Sutta.-See Akodha Sutta.
  • Avijjá Vagga/Sutta
  • Avijjápaccaya Sutta.-Two suttas. Conditioned by ignorance, activities (sankhárá) come to pass, and so on for each factor of the Paticcasamuppáda. S.ii.60-3.
  • Avikakká (v.l. for Adhikakká).
  • Avitakka Sutta
  • Ávopupphiya Thera.-An arahant. He heard Sikhí 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).
  • Avyádhika Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he built an aggi-sálá for Vipassí Buddha and a hospital and hot baths for the sick. Later, seven kappas ago, he was a king named Aparájita. Ap.i.215.
  • Avyákata Samyutta.-The forty-fourth section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.iv.374.
  • Avyákata Vagga
  • Avyápajjha Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the harmless and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
  • Áyácana Sutta/Vagga
  • Áyácitabhatta Játaka (No. 19)
  • Áyágadáyaka Thera
  • Ayakúta Játaka (No. 347)
  • Áyasmanta.-A general of King Sáhasamalla.
  • Áyatana Sutta
  • Ayoghara
  • Ayoghara Játaka (No. 510).-The story of Prince Ayoghara as given above. The story was told regarding the Buddha's Renunciation.  In the Játakamálá the name appears as Ayogrha. Járakamálá No. 32.
  • Ayogula Sutta
  • Ayojjhá
  • Ayoniso (or Vitakkita) Sutta
  • Áyu Sutta
  • Áyupála
  • Áyupálá (Áyupálí).-An arahant therí, preceptor of Sanghamittá. Mhv.v.208; Sp.i.51.
  • Áyúra
  • Áyussa 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. A.iii.145.
  • Áyuvaddhana Kumára
  • Ayyaká Sutta.-Pasenadí'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. S.i.96ff.
  • Ayyaká-kálaka
  • Ayyamitta Thera
  • Ayyamitta.-See Mahámitta (?).
  • Ayya-Uttiya.-(°ika)