Pali Proper Names

• Ejá Sutta.-Two suttas on the evils of passion (ejá) and the ways of getting rid of it. S.iv.64-6.
• Eka Sutta.-Neither beauty, nor wealth, nor kin, nor sons, nor virtue, can avail a woman who is mastered by a man with the power of authority. S.iv.246.
• Ekabala.-A kingdom in Jambudípa, whose king was Sankhapála. Once the king raised a large army and Mahosadha's spies brought him news of it; thereupon Mahosadha sent his parrot to find out what it was all about. J.vi.390.
• Ekabbohárá
• Ekábhiñña Sutta.-See Ekabíjí Sutta.
• Ekabíjí Sutta
• Ekacakkhu.-A city of Jambudípa, where reigned Kambalavasana (or Kambalavasabha) and his descendants, thirty-two in number, also Brahmadeva and his descendants, fifteen in number. Dpv.iii.19, 24.
• Ekacampakapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he had given a campaka-flower to the Pacceka Buddha, Upasanta (Ap.i.288). He is probably identical with Vajjita Thera. ThagA.i.336f.
• Ekacáriya Thera
• Ekachattiya Thera
• Ekacintita
• Ekadamsaniya Thera
• Ekadhamma Sutta
• Ekadhamma Vagga
• Ekadhamma-peyyála.-Two groups of suttas in which various things are mentioned singly, each of them being given as a condition most useful for the arising of the Ariyan Eightfold Way. S.v.32ff.
• Ekadhammasavaniya Thera
• Ekadhammika.-See Ekadhammasavaniya (1).
• Ekadhitu Sutta.-A devout lay-sister should admonish her only daughter to be like Khujjuttará or Velukantakiyá Nandamátá, or, if she goes to homelessness, like Khemá and Uppalavanná. S.ii.236.
• Ekadípi.-The abode of Ekadípiya when he was born in the deva-world. There were always one hundred thousand lights burning in Ekadípi. Ap.ii.373.
• Ekadípiya Thera
• Ekadussadáyaka Thera
• Ekadváirika. See Ekadvára.
• Ekadvára.-A vihára built by King Subha to the east of Anurádhapura, at the foot of the Ekadvárika-pabbata. Mhv.xxxv.58; MT.648. The Ekadvárika-pabbata was also called Vangantapabbata. MT. 424.
• Ekáhavápi.-One of the tanks built by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxix.28.
• Ekajjha.-A king of fifty-seven kappas ago; a previous birth of Phaladáyaka Thera (Ap.i.239).
• Ekakkharakosa.-A well-known Páli vocabulary, composed in the sixteenth century by Saddhammakitti, pupil of Ariyavamsa (Bode, op. cit., 45). It is evidently based on similar Sanskrit works. There exists also a tíká to the work.
• Ekamandáriya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a youth in Távatimsa and, seeing the Buddha Vipassí in samádhi, brought a mandárava-flower and held it above the Buddha's head for seven days. Ap.i.286.
• Ekanálá
• Ekanálika.-A famine that broke out in Ceylon during the time of King Kuñcanága. The people were reduced to very little food, but the king maintained, without interruption, a great alms-giving (mahápelá) appointed for five hundred monks. Mhv.xxxvi.20.
• Ekañjalika.-A king of fourteen kappas ago, a previous birth of Ekañjaliya Thera. Ap.i.236.
• Ekañjalika Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he saw Vipassí Buddha and paid homage to him with clasped hands. Ap.i.80.
• Ekañjaliya Thera
• Ekantadukkhí and Ekantasukhí Sutta.-Two suttas dealing with the respective views that after death the self is sheer suffering and that it is sheer bliss (S.iii.219f).
• Ekantaka Sutta.-See Janapada and Sedaka Sutta.
• Ekapada Játaka (No. 238)
• Ekapadumiya Thera.-An arahant. In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a king of swans, and seeing the Buddha near the lake where he lived, picked a lotus flower and held it in his beak above the Buddha. Ap.i.276f.
• Ekapanna Játaka (No. 149)
• Ekapaññita.-See Ekaphusita.
• Ekápassita.-Sixty-two kappas ago there were three kings of this name, all previous births of Álambanadáyaka Thera. Ap.i.213.
• Ekapattadáyaka Thera
• Ekaphusita.-A king of twenty-six kappas ago, a previous birth of Saccasaññaka Thera. v.l. Ekapaññita. Ap.i.209.
• Ekapindadáyiká Therí
• Ekapuggala Sutta.-A group of suttas on the uniqueness of the Tathágata (A.i.22f). The sutta is quoted in the Kathávatthu (i.65) and the Milinda-Pañha (p.242).
• Ekapuggala Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of seven suttas, six on the Tathágata and one on Sáriputta. A.i.22f.
• Ekapundaríka
• Ekapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a Pisáca at the southern gate of the city (Bandhumatí?), and seeing the Buddha, offered him a single flower. Ap.i.240.
• Ekaputtika-Brahmadatta
• Ekarája
• Ekarája Játaka (No. 303)
• Ekasálá
• Ekásanadáyaka Thera
• Ekásanadáyika Therí.-An arahant. She is evidently identical with Ubbirí Therí (q.v. for her story of the past).
• Ekásanika Sutta.-On the five classes of monks who practise the ekásanikanga. A.iii.220.
• Ekasankhiya Thera.-An arahant. In the past, when a festival was being held in honour of Vipassí's Bodhi-tree, be blew a conch-shell for a whole day as homage to the Buddha. Seventy-one kappas ago he became a king named Sudassana. Ap.ii.391.
• Ekasaññaka Thera
• Ekasátaka
• Ekassara.-A king of ninety-four kappas ago; a previous birth of Kisalayapújaka Thera. Ap.i.200.
• Ekatthambha-pásáda
• Ekavajjaka-Brahmadatta
• Ekavandiya Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vessabhú and, with devout heart, worshipped him. Twenty-four kappas ago he was a king named Vigatánanda. Ap.i.217.
• Ekaviháriya
• Ekuddána (Ekuddániya) Thera
• Ekúnavisatipañha. The section of the Maha-Ummagga Játaka which deals with the nineteen questions solved by Mahosadha when the other wise men of the court had failed to unravel them. J.vi.334-45.
• Ekúposathiká Therí
• Ekuttara.-See Anguttara.
• Elakamára
• Elára
• Eleyya.-A rájá, probably of Magadha. He was a devout follower of Uddaka-Rámaputta. In his retinue were Yamaka, Moggalla, Ugga, Návindaki, Gandhabba, and Aggivessa, all of whom were also followers of the same teacher (A.ii.180f).
• Ení
• Enijangha Sutta.-One of the suttas in the Devatá-Samyutta. A deva asks the Buddha how it is possible to wander indifferent to the calls of sense, limbed like the antelope (eni) or the lion. The Buddha answers, by getting rid of the desires of sense. S.i.16.
• Enikúla.-See Ení. The scholiast to the Játaka (J.iii.361) explains the name in the following way: "Eniyá náma nadiyá kúle."
• Eniphassá.-A name, either of some kind of musical instrument or, more probably, of a class of celestial musicians who waited on Sakka and his queens. Vv.xviii.11; i.26; VvA.94, 211; for explanation see 372.
• Eráhulu.-A locality in Ceylon, near which an engagement took place between the forces of Parakkamabáhu I., and his foes (Cv.lxxiv.91). It is identified with the present district Eravur, north-west of Batticaloa. Cv.Trs.ii.30, n.3.
• Eraka Thera
• Erakapatta
• Erakavassa, Erakavassakhanda.-A locality in Ceylon. Ras.ii.181, 185.
• Erakávilla.-A village in Rohana in Ceylon where King Mahásena built a vihára after destroying a temple of the unbelievers. Mhv.xxxvii.41; MT.685.
• Erandagalla.-A tank built by Vijayabáhu I. Cv.lx.49.
• Erápatha
• Erávana
• Erukkatta (Erukkhávúra).-A village in South India, occupied by Kulasekhara in his fight with the Sinhalese forces under Lankápura. Cv.lxxvi.149, 167.
• Esaná Sutta
• Esiká.-A country in Jambudípa. Pannakata was a city of Esiká, and in it was born one of the women described in the Caturitthivimána (Vv.42; VvA.195).
• Eso me attá Sutta.-On the view "this is the self, it is permanent," etc. S.iii.182.
• Esukárí
• Esukárí Sutta.-Records the conversation between the brahmin Esukárí and the Buddha. M.ii.177ff.
• Etadagga Vagga.-The fourteenth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It contains the names of the Buddha's disciples, men and women, each distinguished by some special qualification. A.i.23-6.
• Etam-mama Sutta.-On how the view arises: "This is mine, this am I." S.iii.181.