Pali Proper Names — E

• Ejā Sutta.-Two suttas on the evils of passion (ejā) 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 Jambudīpa, whose king was Sankhapāla. 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.
• Ekabbohārā
• Ekābhiñña Sutta.-See Ekabījī Sutta.
• Ekabījī Sutta
• Ekacakkhu.-A city of Jambudīpa, 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.
• Ekacāriya Thera
• Ekachattiya Thera
• Ekacintita
• Ekadamsaniya Thera
• Ekadhamma Sutta
• Ekadhamma Vagga
• Ekadhamma-peyyāla.-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 Khujjuttarā or Velukantakiyā Nandamātā, or, if she goes to homelessness, like Khemā and Uppalavannā. S.ii.236.
• Ekadīpi.-The abode of Ekadīpiya when he was born in the deva-world. There were always one hundred thousand lights burning in Ekadīpi. Ap.ii.373.
• Ekadīpiya Thera
• Ekadussadāyaka Thera
• Ekadvāirika. See Ekadvāra.
• Ekadvāra.-A vihāra built by King Subha to the east of Anurādhapura, at the foot of the Ekadvārika-pabbata. Mhv.xxxv.58; MT.648. The Ekadvārika-pabbata was also called Vangantapabbata. MT. 424.
• Ekāhavāpi.-One of the tanks built by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.28.
• Ekajjha.-A king of fifty-seven kappas ago; a previous birth of Phaladāyaka Thera (Ap.i.239).
• Ekakkharakosa.-A well-known Pāli 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 tīkā to the work.
• Ekamandāriya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a youth in Tāvatimsa and, seeing the Buddha Vipassī in samādhi, brought a mandārava-flower and held it above the Buddha’s head for seven days. Ap.i.286.
• Ekanālā
• Ekanālika.-A famine that broke out in Ceylon during the time of King Kuñcanāga. The people were reduced to very little food, but the king maintained, without interruption, a great alms-giving (mahāpelā) 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 Vipassī Buddha and paid homage to him with clasped hands. Ap.i.80.
• Ekañjaliya Thera
• Ekantadukkhī and Ekantasukhī 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 Jātaka (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 Jātaka (No. 149)
• Ekapaññita.-See Ekaphusita.
• Ekāpassita.-Sixty-two kappas ago there were three kings of this name, all previous births of Ālambanadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.213.
• Ekapattadāyaka Thera
• Ekaphusita.-A king of twenty-six kappas ago, a previous birth of Saccasaññaka Thera. v.l. Ekapaññita. Ap.i.209.
• Ekapindadāyikā Therī
• Ekapuggala Sutta.-A group of suttas on the uniqueness of the Tathāgata (A.i.22f). The sutta is quoted in the Kathāvatthu (i.65) and the Milinda-Pañha (p.242).
• Ekapuggala Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It consists of seven suttas, six on the Tathāgata and one on Sāriputta. A.i.22f.
• Ekapundarīka
• Ekapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a Pisāca at the southern gate of the city (Bandhumatī?), and seeing the Buddha, offered him a single flower. Ap.i.240.
• Ekaputtika-Brahmadatta
• Ekarāja
• Ekarāja Jātaka (No. 303)
• Ekasālā
• Ekāsanadāyaka Thera
• Ekāsanadāyika Therī.-An arahant. She is evidently identical with Ubbirī Therī (q.v. for her story of the past).
• Ekāsanika Sutta.-On the five classes of monks who practise the ekāsanikanga. A.iii.220.
• Ekasankhiya Thera.-An arahant. In the past, when a festival was being held in honour of Vipassī’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
• Ekasātaka
• Ekassara.-A king of ninety-four kappas ago; a previous birth of Kisalayapūjaka Thera. Ap.i.200.
• Ekatthambha-pāsāda
• Ekavajjaka-Brahmadatta
• Ekavandiya Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vessabhū and, with devout heart, worshipped him. Twenty-four kappas ago he was a king named Vigatānanda. Ap.i.217.
• Ekavihāriya
• Ekuddāna (Ekuddāniya) Thera
• Ekūnavisatipañha. The section of the Maha-Ummagga Jātaka 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.
• Ekūposathikā Therī
• Ekuttara.-See Anguttara.
• Elakamāra
• Elāra
• Eleyya.-A rājā, probably of Magadha. He was a devout follower of Uddaka-Rāmaputta. In his retinue were Yamaka, Moggalla, Ugga, Nāvindaki, Gandhabba, and Aggivessa, all of whom were also followers of the same teacher (A.ii.180f).
• Enī
• Enijangha Sutta.-One of the suttas in the Devatā-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.
• Enikūla.-See Enī. The scholiast to the Jātaka (J.iii.361) explains the name in the following way: “Eniyā nāma nadiyā kūle.“
• Eniphassā.-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.
• Erāhulu.-A locality in Ceylon, near which an engagement took place between the forces of Parakkamabāhu 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.
• Erakāvilla.-A village in Rohana in Ceylon where King Mahāsena built a vihāra after destroying a temple of the unbelievers. Mhv.xxxvii.41; MT.685.
• Erandagalla.-A tank built by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lx.49.
• Erāpatha
• Erāvana
• Erukkatta (Erukkhāvūra).-A village in South India, occupied by Kulasekhara in his fight with the Sinhalese forces under Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.149, 167.
• Esanā Sutta
• Esikā.-A country in Jambudīpa. Pannakata was a city of Esikā, and in it was born one of the women described in the Caturitthivimāna (Vv.42; VvA.195).
• Eso me attā Sutta.-On the view “this is the self, it is permanent,” etc. S.iii.182.
• Esukārī
• Esukārī Sutta.-Records the conversation between the brahmin Esukārī and the Buddha. M.ii.177ff.
• Etadagga Vagga.-The fourteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. 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.