Pali Proper Names — A
- 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.iv.244.
- 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.v.470-3.
- Āmalacetiya.-A thupa in Ceylon. It is
not known who built it. Aggabodhi I. erected a parasol over it. Cv.xlii.62.
- Āmalakīvana Amalakivana.-A grove at
Cātumā. The Buddha once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the
Cātuma Sutta was preached. M.i.456.
- 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. Ap.ii.459.
- Amara
- Amarā (Amarādevī)
- Amarādevī-pañha
- Amaragiri
- Amarapura
- Amaravatī
- Amarinda.-Name given to Sakka, king
of the gods. E.g., ThagA.151, 112.
- Amaruppala.-The name borne by
Kākavannatissa when he was a hunter in a village near Amaruppala-lena.
Ras.ii.56.
- Amaruppala-lena.-A cave in the Malaya
province of Ceylon. Kākavannatissa 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.
MA.ii.888.
- Amba Jātaka (No. 124, 474)
- Amba Sutta.-The four kinds of mangoes
(ripe, etc.) and four corresponding classes of monks. A.ii.106f.
- Ambacora Jātaka (No. 344)
- Ambadāyaka Thera
- Ambadugga.-A tank in Ceylon, built by
Kutakannatissa. Mhv.xxxiv.33.
- Ambagāma
-
Ambahattha
- Ambakhādaka-Mahātissa.-See Mahātissa
(3).
- 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.
- Ambalatthikā
- Ambalatthika-Rāhulovāda Sutta
- Ambālavana.-See Ambātaka.
- Ambālavāpi.-A tank restored by
Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxviii.46) A canal known as Tambapannī flowed from the
tank northwards. Cv.lxxix.50.
- Ambāmacca
- Ambamāla Vihāra.-A monastery in
Rohana built by Dappula I. Cv.xlv.55.
- Ambanganatthāna
- Ambapālī (Ambapālikā)
- Ambapāli Sutta
- Ambapāli Vagga.-The first chapter of
the Satipatthāna Samyutta in the Mahāvagga of the
Samyutta Nikāya (S.v.141-8).
- Ambapālivana
- Ambapāsāna.-A monastery in the
village of Anganakola in South Ceylon, where lived the Elder Cittagutta.
MT.552.
- Ambapindiya Thera
- Ambara-Ambaravatī.-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 Pindapātika-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.
- 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. Cv.xxxix.48ff.
- Ambasanda
- 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. ThagA.i.403.
- Ambātakavana
- 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.
- Ambatittha
- Ambatitthaka
- Ambattha
- Ambattha Sutta
- Ambattha-gotta
- Ambatthaja.-Seventy kappas ago there
were fourteen kings of this name, all former lives of Ambadāyaka Thera.
Ap.i.117.
- Ambatthakola
- Ambatthala
- Ambattha-vijjā
- Ambavana
- Ambavāpi.-A tank at Būkakalla in
Ceylon. It was given over to the Mātambiya-padhānaghara by the Damila,
Potthakuttha. Cv.xlvi.19-20.
- 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. Appa).
- 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.
- Ambilapassava
- Ambilāpika.-A village given by
Jetthatissa III. for the supply of food to Kassapagirivihāra. Cv.xliv.98.
- Ambilayāgu.-A village in Ceylon. It
was the residence of Dāthānāma, father of Dhātusena. 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.
- 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.
S.ii.234.
- Amitā
- Amita.-A king of twenty-five kappas
ago; a previous birth of Aggapupphiya Thera (v.l. Amitobhava, Amitogata).
Ap.i.229.
- Amitābha.-A king of twenty-five
kappas ago; a previous birth of Ekasaññaka Thera. Ap.i.210.
- Amitabhogā.-Five setthīs in
Bimbisāra’s dominions, whose wealth was limitless. They were
Jotiya, Jatila,
Mendaka, Punnaka, and
Kākavaliya. AA.i.220; for details see s.v.
- Amitañjala.-A
king of fourteen kappas ago; a previous birth of Sālapupphiya Thera (v.l.
Asitañjala). Ap.i.219.
- Amitobhava.-See Amita.
- Amitodana
- Amitta.-See Somamitta.
- Amittabhā.-A king of twenty-five
kappas ago; a former life of Bhojanadāyaka Thera (v.l. Amittaka). Ap.i.253.
- Amittaka.-See Amittabhā.
- Amittatāpanā
- Amittatāpana.-A king of seventeen
kappas ago; a previous life of Pavittha Thera (ThagA.i.185), probably to be
identified with Ekadamsaniya of the Apadāna (i.168).
- Amoraphaliya Thera
- Anabhirati Jātaka (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.
- 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.
A.iii.100f.
- Anāgatavamsa
- Ānaka (v.l. Ānnaka)
- Anālaya 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.
- Ānañcāyatana Sutta.-On the three
infinite spheres: infinite space, infinite consciousness, and sphere of
nothingness. A.i.267.
- Ānanda
- Ānandā
- Ānanda Sutta/Vagga
- Ānanda-bhaddekaratta Sutta
-
Ānandabodhi
- Ānandakumāra
- Ānandamānava.-See Ānanda (17).
- Ānandena Sutta. The Buddha is asked
by Ānanda 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 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. M.i.24ff.
- 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). Ap.i.218.
- Anantajina
- Anantakāya
- Anantapokkharanī.-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 Mahāvāluka-gangā in Ceylon. Cv.lxxii.16.
- Anantarapeyyāla.-One of the sections
of the Vidhura Jātaka. J.vi.304.
- Anantavā Sutta.-On the world as being
unlimited. S.iii.215.
- Ananusociya Jātaka (No. 328)
- Ananussuta Sutta.-The five-fold power
of a Tathāgata. A.iii.9f.
- Ananutappiya Sutta.-Preached by
Sāriputta on how a monk should deport himself so as to have no occasion for
repentance. A.iii.294f.
- Ānāpāna Kathā.-The third section of
the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. Ps.i.162ff.
- 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. S.v.132.
- Ānāpāna Vagga.-The seventh chapter of
the Bojjhanga Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.v.129-32.
- Ānāpānasati Sutta
- Anāsava Sutta.-The Buddha teaches
that which is free from āsavas and the way thereto. S.iv.369.
- Anāsava.-A Pacceka Buddha found in a
list of Pacceka Buddhas. He lived in Isigili. M.iii.70; Ap.i.107.
- 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. Ap.i.288.
- Anāthapindika
- Anāthapindika Sutta/Vagga
- Anāthapindika-putta-Kāla Vatthu.-Story
of the conversion of Anāthapindika’s son Kāla. DhA.iii.189-92.
- Anāthapindika-Setthi Vatthu.-Story of
the goddess, guardian of Anāthapindika’s gate.
- Anāthapindikassārāma.-See Jetavana.
- Anāthapindikovāda Sutta
- Anaticārī Sutta.-A woman who is no
adulteress will be born in heaven. S.iv.244.
- Anatta Sutta
- Anattā 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.
- 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.
- Andabharīgāmakūtaka Sutta
- Andabhūta Jātaka (No. 62)
- Andhā
- Andha Sutta.-On the three classes of
persons: the blind, the one-eyed, and the two-eyed (A.iii.128f).
- Andhabhūta Sutta.-See Addhabhūta
Sutta.
- Andhakā
- Andhakāra Sutta.-The ignorance of
Ill, its arising, etc., is greater and more fearsome than the darkness of
interstellar space (lokantarika). S.v.454-5.
- Andhakāra Vagga.-The second section
of the Pācittiya in the Bhikkhunī-vibhanga. Vin.iv.268-71.
- 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. Cv.xlvi.12.
- Andhakarattha.-See Andhakā (1).
- Andhakavenhu
-
Andhakavenhu-(dāsa)-puttā
- Andhakavinda
- 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., UdA.112.
- Andhakavinda Sutta/Vagga
- Andhanāraka.-One of the villages
given by Aggabodhi IV, for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara built for the
Elder Dāthāsiva. Cv.xlvi.13.
- Andhapura
- Andhatthakathā.-One of the
Commentaries used by Buddhaghosa (Sp.iv.747). It was handed down at Kāñcipura
(Conjevaram) in South India.
- Andhavana
- Andu.-A village near Pulatthipura.
Cv.lix.5.
- Anejakā.-A class of devas mentioned
as having been present on the occasion of the preaching of the Mahā-Samaya
Sutta. D.ii.160.
- Anekavanna
- Anekavannavimāna.-The abode of
Anekavanna-devaputta. Vv.74-5.
- Anga
- Anga Sutta
- Angagāma.-A tank built by
Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.37.
- Angaka.-Nephew (sister’s son) of
Sonadanda. D.i.123.
- Angamu.-A place in Ceylon identified
with the modern Ambagamuva (Geiger Cv. trans. i.298, n. 3). The Senāpati Deva
once encamped there. Cv.lxx.130.
- Anganakola.-A village in South
Ceylon, the residence of Ambapāsāna-vāsī-Cittagutta. MT.552.
- Anganasālaka.-A village given by
Aggabodhi II. to the Abhaya(giri-)vihara. Cv.xlii.63.
- Angāni Sutta 1.-The five qualities of
exertion (padhāna). A.iii.65.
- 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. A.v.16-17.
- Anganika-Bhāradvāja
- Angarājā.-The chieftain of Anga in
the Buddha’s time. See Anga.
- Angārapabbata.-A blazing mountain of
white hot coal, one of the tortures of the Mahāniraya. Kvu.597.
- Angati
- 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. M.ii.97ff.
- Angulimāla-pitaka.-Given in a list of
heretical works. SA.ii.150; Sp.iv.742.
- Anguttara Nikāya
- Anguttaranavatīkā.-By Sāriputta,
author also of Sarātthadīpanī-Vinaya-tīkā (q.v.). Gv.71.
- Anguttarāpa
- 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 / Vagga
- Aniccā 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.
- Aniccatā Sutta
- Anidassana Sutta.-The invisible and
the path leading thereto. S.iv.370.
- Anīgha.-A Pacceka Buddha; occurs in a
list of Pacceka Buddhas. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
- Anikadatta.-See Anikaratta.
- Anīkanga
- Anikaratta.-Ruler of Vāranavatī. He
came to Mantāvatī as a suitor for the hand of Sumedhā, but did not succeed in
his quest, as Sumedhā became a Bhikkhunī after having converted Anikaratta and
his retinue. (Anikadatta). Thig.v.462-515; ThigA.272f; Ap.ii.512.
- Ānimandavya.-See Animandavya.
- Animandavya.-See Mandavya.
- Animisa-cetiya
- Animitta Sutta.-Preached by
Moggallāna ; it records an occasion when he experienced unconditioned rapture
of the heart (animittaceto-samādhi). S.iv.268.
- Aniruddha.-See Anuruddha.
- Ānisamsa Sutta.-On the six advantages
of realizing the first fruit of the Path (Sotāpattiphala). A.iii.441.
- 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.iv.244.
- Anītika Sutta and Anītikadhamma
Sutta.-On the state that is free from ill and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
- Anitthigandhakumāra
- Anitthigandhakumāra Vatthu.-See
Anitthigandhakumāra (3).
- 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. Dip.xviii.24.
- Añjana
- Añjanadevi
- 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
- Añjanavasabha
- Añjasa.-A king of two kappas ago,
father of Sunanda, a previous birth of
Upāli. 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 brahma-cariya is
used to mean veyyāvacca (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.
- Añña Sutta.-On the results of
developing the four satipatthāna. S.v.181.
- Annabhāra
- Aññamjivām aññamsarīram Sutta.-That
the body is one thing and the soul another is the view held by some people.
S.iii.215.
- Aññanā Sutta.-Five of the same name
recording conversations with the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta regarding the results
of ignorance. S.iii.257-9.
- Annasamsāvaka
- Aññāta-Kondañña (Aññā-Kondañña) Thera
- Aññatara Sutta 1.-On the chain of
causation. S.ii.75-6.
- Aññatara Sutta 2.-Few are born among
men because beings do not see the four Ariyan truths. S.v.465.
- 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 (Vol. v.).
- Aññatara-Bhikkhu Sutta.-Two of this
name containing questions on the holy life and the destruction of the āsavā.
S.v.7-8.
- 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.i.144f.
- Aññatitthiya Bhānavāra.-Ends the
sixteenth chapter of the second khandhaka of the Mahāvagga. Vin.i.115.
- Aññatitthiya Sutta.-Describes a visit
of Sāriputta to some heretical teachers in Rājagaha and the discussions that
ensued. Ānanda reports the incident to the Buddha, who approves and explains
the questions further. S.ii.32f.
- 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.v.27f.
- Anodhi Sutta.-Three suttas on the
development of unlimited reflection of anicca, dukkha and anattā. A.iii.443f.
- Anojā
- Anoma
- Anomā
- Anomadassī
- Anomārāma
- Anomasatta.-An epithet of the Buddha.
UdA.304; KhA.170.
- 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).
- Anopamā
- 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, pp. 11-13.
- Anotatta
- 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. S.ii.195f.
- 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. S.iii.157-8.
- 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. Ap.i.230.
- Antaraganga.-A district in Ceylon.
Ras.ii.10.
- Antarāganga.-A monastery in Ceylon to
which Jetthatissa III. gave the village of Cullamātika. Cv.xliv.100.
- Antaramegiri.-A monastery built by
King Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
- Antarapeyyāla.-A section of the
Nidāna Samyutta containing twelve suttas with abridged contents. S.ii.130ff.
- Antarasobbha
- Antaravaddhamāna
- Antaravitthi
- 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. Cv.xlvi.13.
- 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.
S.iii.40-1.
- 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. M.ii.1.
- Anuggaha Sutta.-Right belief is
endowed with five advantages. A.iii.20-l.
- Anujīvisamiddha.-A Damila chief, ally
of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.33.
- Anujjā (v.l. Anojā).-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
- Anulā
- Anulatissapabbata.-A vihāra in
Gangārājī in East Ceylon, built by Kanitthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
- 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
- Anumānapañha
- 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. J.vi.273-4.
- 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. S.v.29.
- Anupalakkhanā Sutta.-Diverse views
are the result of want of discrimination. S.iii.261.
- Anupama
- Anupamā
- Anūpama Thera
- Anupanāhī Sutta.-The woman who is not
wrathful will be born in a happy condition. S.iv.244.
- Anupiya (Anupiyā)
- Anūpiya.-See Anupiya.
- Anupubba
- 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.
- Anurādha
- 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.
- Anurādhapura
- 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.
- Anurārāma
- Anuruddha Sutta/Samyutta
- Anuruddha Thera
- Anusamsāvaka Thera.-An arahant. In a
past birth he gave a spoonful of rice to the Buddha Vipassī. Ap.i.247.
- 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. 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.
- 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. M.iii.68.
- Anuttāriya Sutta 1.-The six unsurpassables. A.iii.284.
- Anuttāriya Sutta 2.-A detailed
explanation of the above. A.iii.325f.
- Anuttariya Vagga.-The third chapter
of the Chakka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.309-29.
- 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.
Ap.ii.359.
- Anva Vagga.-See Addha Vagga.