Pali Proper Names — A

• Āpā
• Apacara
• Apacāyika Sutta.-See Pacāyika Sutta.
• Apaccakkhakamma Suttā.-Five discourses in which the Buddha explains to Vacchagotta how diverse opinions arise through want of clearness about the facts of body, feeling, perception, activities and consciousness. S.iii.262.
• Apaccupalakkhanā Sutta.-Same as the above, only substituting “through not discriminating” for “through want of clearness.” S.iii.261.
• Apaccupekkhanā Sutta.-Same as the above, but substituting “through not looking into” for “through not discriminating.” S.iii.262.
• Apadāna
• Apadāniya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he had eulogized the life history (apadānam kittayissam) of the Buddha. Ap.i.241.
• Apadika.-A river. Vasabha Thera, in a previous birth as the jatila Nārada, 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 Rāhula in Jetavana. The Buddha explains how the mind is freed from notions of “I” and “mine.” S.ii.253; see Rāhula Sutta (3).
• Apalāla
• Apalāladamana.-See Apalāla.
• Apalokina Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the un-decaying and the path that leads thereto. S.iv.370. On the name see KS.iv.262, n.2.
• Apalokita.-See Apalokina.
• Āpana
• Āpana Sutra.-See Saddha Sutta.
• Āpāna.-One of the Vanni chiefs of Ceylon, brought into subjection by Bhuvanekabāhu I. (Cv.xc.33)
• Apannaka Jātaka (No. 1)
• Apannaka Sutta/Vagga
• Apannakatā Sutta.-On the three qualities which make a monk proficient in following the sure course (apannakapatipadā): guarding the senses, moderation in eating and wakefulness. 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.
• Apāra Sutta
• Aparāditthi Sutta
• Aparagoyāna
• Aparagoyma.-See Gotama (3).
• Aparājita
• Aparanna
• Aparantā.-Mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
• Aparantaka (Aparanta)
• Aparaseliyā
• Aparihāni Sutta.-There are seven things that decline not, viz., the seven bojjhangas. S.v.85; see also ibid., 94.
• Aparihāniya Sutta
• Aparika.-See Apadika.
• Apāsādika 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 Ārakkhadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.215.
• Āpatti (Sutta/Vagga)
• Āpāyika Sutta.-On three persons who are doomed to purgatory (A.i.265).
• Āpāyika Vagga.-The twelfth chapter of the Tika Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.265-73). It contains ten suttas on various topics.
• Apāyimha Vagga.-The ninth section of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātaka. J.i.360-79.
• Apheggusāra.-A treatise, of about the fourteenth century, on Abhidhamma topics, written by a scholar of Hamsavatī in Burma. Bode: op. cit., 36 and n.2; Sās.48.
• Apheggusāradīpanī-A book composed at Hamsavatī, probably by Mahāsuvannadīpa, teacher of Queen Sīvalī. In Nevill’s MS. Catalogue in the British Museum it is described as an anutīkā dealing with matter in the Abhidhammatthavibhāvanī. Bode: op. cit. 36, n.2.
• Apilāpiya.-A cakkavatti of eighty-six kappas ago; a former birth of Tikandīpupphiya Thera. Ap.i.202.
• Appacintī.-A fish who lived in the Ganges with his brothers Bahucintī and Mitacintī. He and Bahucintī were caught in a fisherman’s net and were rescued by Mitacintī. The story is told in the Mitacintī Jāt. (i.427-8).
• Appakā (or Virata) Vagga.-The eighth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.v.468-70.
• Appaka Sutta
• Appamāda Sutta / Vagga
• Appamādovāda.-The name given to the stanzas in the Dhammapada (Nos. 21-23) on heedfulness. J.v.66.
• Appamānābhā
• Appamānasubhā
• Appamateyya Sutta.-See Matteyya.
• Appamatta Sutta.-See Asamatta.
• Appamattaka Vagga.-The nineteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. In the spiritual world, by analogy with Nature, only a few are selected out of many who will be lost. A.i.35-8.
• Appameyya Sutta.-Of three classes of persons, the arahant is the immeasurable (appameyya). 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.
• Appativāni Sutta.-By him who knows not birth and becoming, grasping, craving, feeling, contact, etc., there must be no turning back in the search for knowledge. S.ii.132.
• Appativedhā Sutta.-Preached to Vacchagotta. Divers opinions arise in the world through want of perception of the nature of the body, etc. S.iii.261.
• Appatividitā-Sutta.-Spoken by a deva; a Buddha has arisen, now is the time for those who have not perceived the truth to do so. S.i.4.
• Appihā
• Appiyā.-See Suppiyā.
• Aputtaka
• Aputtaka Sutta
• Aputtasetthi Vatthu.-The story of Aputtaka given above. DhA.iv.76-80.
• Ārabbhavatthu Sutta.-On the eight occasions in which exertion should be applied. A.iv.334f.
• Ārabhati 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.).
• Arahā Sutta
• Araham Sutta
• Arahanta Sutta/Vagga
• Arahanta.-A Talaing monk, the preceptor and advisor of Anuruddha. King of Burma. He made far-reaching reforms in the Burmese Sangha of his day (Bode, op. cit., 12-13).
• Arahatta Sutta/Vagga
• Araja.-One of the palaces occupied by Dhammadassī before he became the Buddha. Bu.xvi.14.
• Araka
• Araka Jātaka (No. 169)
• Araka Sutta.-The teachings of Araka. A.iv.136ff.
• Ārakkha Sutta.-Earnest care should be exerted to guard one’s thoughts from running riot among passionate things, from being malicious, from being deluded and from following the path laid down by various recluses (false teachers?). A.ii.120.
• Ārakkhadāyaka Thera
• Ārāma Sutta.-See Sāriputta-Kotthita Sutta.
• Āramā Vagga.-The sixth division of the Pacittiya of the Bhikkhunī Vibhanga (Vin.iv.306-17).
• Ārāmadanda.-A brahmin.
• Ārāmadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past life he planted a garden with shady trees for the Buddha Siddhattha, and gave the Buddha the fruits and flowers that grew there. Thirty-seven kappas ago he was born seven times as king, by name Mudusītala. Ap.i.251.
• Ārāmadūsaka Jātaka (No. 46, 268)
• Ārāmassa.-A village in Ceylon, given by King Udaya I. for the maintenance of a Loharūpa (bronze statue) of the Buddha. Cv.xlix.17.
• Ārāmikagāma
• Arammā.-A tribe mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
• Ārammana Sutta
• Aranā Sutta.-On the Undefiled. Preached in answer to a deva’s questions as to who are undefiled and fit to receive homage from everyone. Monks, says the Buddha, are so worthy (S.i.44-5).
• Aranadīpiya Thera
• Aranañjaha.-See Arunañjaha.
• Aranavibhanga Sutta
• Aranemi
• Arani Sutta
• Ārañjara.-See Arañjaragiri.
• Arañjaragiri
• Arañña
• Arañña Jātaka (No. 348)
• Arañña Sutta/Vagga
• Āraññaka Mahā-abhaya
• Āraññaka Sutta. The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 85) to the Anāgata Sutta (q.v.).
• Araññakutikā
• Araññasatta.-A king of twenty kappas ago; a previous birth of Nimittasaññaka Thera (v.l. Araññamanna; Araññasanta). Ap.i.261.
• Araññavāsī Nikāya
• Arati
• Arati Sutta
• Aravacchā
• Aravāla
• Āravāla.-See Aravāla.
• Aravāladaha.-The lake in which Aravāla lived.
• Arikārī.-A monastery in Ceylon. It is not recorded by whom it was first built. Udaya I. found it in a dilapidated condition and had it repaired. He also built there a house for the distribution of food and added a pāsāda (Cv.xlix.32).
• Arimaddana
• Arimaddavijayagāma
• Arimanda.-A city in which the Bodhisatta was born as the Khattiya Vijatāvī in the time of the Buddha Phussa. BuA.194.
• Arindama
• Arittha (Sutta)
• Arittha Vihāra.-The monastery built by Lañjakatissa in Aritthapabbata. Mhv.xxxiii.27; Mhv.trans.230, n.6.
• Aritthajanaka
• Aritthakā
• Aritthapabbata
• Aritthapura
• Arittha-thapita-ghara.-See Sirivaddhaghara (?).
• Ariya (Sutta)
• Ariyā Sutta.-The four iddhi-pādas, if cultivated, conduce to the utter destruction of Ill. They are ariyaniyyānikā. S.v.255.
• Ariyabālisika Vatthu.-The story of the fisherman Ariya given above, Ariya 2.
• Āriyacakkavatti
• Ariyagālatissa
• Ariyagāla-tittha. A ford, probably on the Mahāvāluka-nadī. Ras.ii.38.
• Ariyākara Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
• Ariyākari.-A monastery in Rohana in South Ceylon. Dappula gave it to the village of Mālavatthu and built therein an image house. He also had a valuable unnaloma and a hemapatta made for the image there. Cv.xlv.60-l.
• Ariyaka-Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.174.
• Āriyakkhattayodhā
• Ariyakoti.-A monastery (probably in Ceylon), the residence of Mahā Datta Thera. MA.i.131.
• Ariyālankāra
• Ariyamagga Sutta/Vagga
• Ariyamuni
• Ariyapariyesanā Sutta
• Ariyasāvaka Sutta
• Ariyavamsa
• Ariyavamsālankāra.-A book written by Ñānābhisāsanadhaja Mahādhammarājaguru Thera of Burma, author of the Petakālankāra and other books. Sās.134.
• Ariyavasā Sutta.-The ten dwellings of Ariyans, past, present and future. A.v.29.
• Ārohanta
• 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 Arunapāla.
• Arunaka.-Thirty-six kappas ago there were seven kings of the name of Arunaka, all previous births of the Thera Vatthadāyaka (Ap.i.116).
• Arunañjaha.-Seventy kappas ago there were sixteen kings of the name of Arunañjaha. They were all past births of Asokapūjaka Thera (Ap.i.199).
• Arunapāla.-A king of thirty-five kappas ago, a former birth of Kanikārapupphiya Thera (who is evidently identical with Ujjaya, Ap.i.203). In the Theragāthā Commentary (i.119) he is called Arunabala.
• Arunapura.-A city in the time of the Buddha Sikhī. Ambapālī was born there in a brahmin family (Ap.ii.613; ThigA.i.213). It is probably identical with Arunavatī.
• Arunavā.-See Aruna (1).
• Arunavatī (Sutta)
• Arunavatī Paritta. Same as Arunavatī Sutta.
• Arundhavatī.-See Amaravatī (2).
• Aruppala.-One of the villages given by Kittisirirājasīha for the maintenance of the Gangārāma Vihāra. Cv.c.212.
• Āsā-Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.86-8). It contains twelve suttas on various topics.
• Āsā.-Daughter of Sakka.
• Asaddha Sutta. Like joins with (literally “flows together with”) like, unbelievers with unbelievers, the lazy with the lazy, etc. S.ii.159.
• Asaddhamūlakāpañca Sutta.-The same in its main features as the Asaddha Sutta. S.ii.160-1.
• Asadisa
• Asadisa Jātaka (No. 181)
• Asadisa Vagga.-The fourth section of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.ii.86-113.
• Asadisadāna
• Asadisadāna Vatthu.-The story of the Asadisadāna and its sequel, the story of Pasenadi’s two ministers Kāla and Junha. See Kāla.
• Asallakkhanā Sutta.-Preached to the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta. Through want of discernment of the nature of the body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. S.iii.261.
• Asama
• Asamā
• Asamāhita Sutta.-Like joins with like, e.g. the un-concentrated with the un-concentrated, because of some fundamental quality (dhātu) common to both. S.ii.166.
• Asamapekkhanā Sutta.-By not seeing the nature of body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. Preached at Sāvatthi to the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta. S.iii.261.
• Asamatta Sutta
• Asampadāna Jātaka (No. 131)
• Asampadāna Vagga.-The fourteenth section of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.i.465-86.
• Asanabodhiya Thera
• Āsanatthavika Thera
• Asandhimittā
• Asani Sutta
• Āsanka Jātaka (No. 380)
• Āsankā.-The adopted daughter of the Bodhisatta in the Āsanka Jātaka. She was so called because she came to him when he crossed the water owing to his doubt (āsankā) as to what was in the lotus. J.iii.250.
• Asankhata Samyutta.-Also called Nibbāna Samyutta. The forty-third section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.359-73.
• Asankhata Suttas.-A group of suttas describing the way to the uncompounded (asankhata). S.iv.362ff.
• Asankiya Jātaka (No. 76)
• Asaññasattā
• Asaññataparikkhāra-bhikkhu Vatthu
• Āsanupatthāyaka Thera
• Asappurisa Sutta
• Asātamanta Jātaka (No. 61)
• Asātarūpa Jātaka (No. 100)
• Asatthārāma.-The place where the Buddha Piyadassī died. Bu.xiv.27.
• Āsava Sutta
• Āsavakkhaya Sutta
• Āsavānam-khaya Sutta.-By cultivating the five indriyas (saddhā, etc.) a monk in this very life realises the liberation by insight which is without the āsavas. S.v.203.
• Āsāvatī
• Asayha
• Asekhiya Sutta.-Five things which make a monk worthy of offerings, etc. A.iii.134.
• Asela
• Āseva Sutta.-If, just for the duration of a finger snap, a monk indulges a thought of good-will, such a one is verily a monk (A.i.10).
• Āsevitabba Sutta.-On the characteristics of the person who should be followed. A.i.124f.
• Asibandhakaputta
• Asiggāha Silākāla.-See Silākāla.
• Asiggāhaka-parivena.-A building in the Thūpārāma. Ras.ii.123.
• Asilakkhana Jātaka (No. 126)
• Āsimsa Vagga.-The sixth section of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. 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.
• Asisūkarika Sutta
• Asita
• Asita Devala
• Asitābhu Jātaka (No. 234)
• Asitābhū.-Wife of Prince Brahmadatta. Her story is given in the Asitābhū Jātaka.
• Asitañjala.-See Amitañjala.
• Asitañjana
• Asīti Nipāta.-The twenty-first section of the Jātakatthakathā (J.v.333-511).
• Āsīvisa Sutta/Vagga
• Āsīvisopama Sutta
• Asoka
• Asokā
• Asokamālā
• Asokamālaka
• Asokapūjaka Thera
• Asokārāma
• Assa Sutta
• Assagutta Thera
• Assaji (Sutta)
• Assaji-Punabbasukā
• Assaji-Punabbasuka-Vatthu.-The story of the visit of the Aggasāvakas to the Assaji-Punabbasukā, mentioned above. DhA.ii.108-10.
• Assaka
• Assaka Jātaka (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 Sīdantara Samudda. J.vi.125.
• Assalāyana
• Assalāyana Sutta.-Records the conversation between the Buddha and Assalāyana 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.
• Assapāla
• Assapura
• Assapura Suttas.-See Mahā Assapura and Cūla Assapura.
• Assārāma.-The place of death of Sikhī Buddha (BuA.204). The Buddhavamsa (Bu.xxi.28) calls it Dussārāma.
• Assāroha.-Probably a nickname for the horse-trainer whose visit to the Buddha is recorded in the Assa Sutta. He is described as a gāmani (head man of a village). S.iv.310.
• Assāsa Sutta.-A conversation between Sāriputta and the Paribbājaka Jambukhādaka as to what constitutes comfort (assāsa) and how it might be won. S.iv.254.
• Assatara
• Assu Sutta.-Preached at Sāvatthi. The tears shed by a person faring in Samsāra, as a result of various sorrows, are greater in quantity than the waters of the four oceans. One should therefore feel repulsion for all things of this world. S.ii.179-80.
• Assutavā Sutta.-From the adjusted friction of two sticks fire is born; if there is no friction there is no fire. Similarly, from contact feeling is born: if contact ceases feeling ceases. The well-taught disciple knows this and attains freedom. 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 Bhāradvāja