Pali Proper Names — G

• Gadāvudha.-The club wielded by Vessavana when he was yet a puthujjana. It would fall on the head of many thousands of Yakkhas and return to Vessavana’s hand. SNA.i.225.
• Gaddula Sutta
• Gadrabha.-Doorkeeper of Alavaka, the Yakkha. He warned the Buddha of the Yakkha’s evil nature and requested him to go away, but, on finding the Buddha determined to stay, he informed the Yakkha of the Buddha’s arrival. SNA.i.220; AA i.211.
• Gadrabhakula.-Mentioned as one of the families in which horses are born. Valāhaka horses are not born in this family. MA.i.248.
• Gadrabhapañha
• Gagga
• Gagga-Jātaka (No.155)
• Gaggaligāma.-A village built by Mahosadha on the further side of the Ganges; there he stationed his elephants, horses, cattle, etc., while he bad the great tunnel constructed (J.vi.431).
• Gaggarā-(Sutta)
• Gaggaravāliya-angana.-A locality in Ceylon. The Elder Pītamalla resided there with thirty other monks. DA.iii.749; the reading in the P.T.S. edition (gāravakaranāya) is wrong.
• Gahapati-Jātaka (No.199)
• Gahapati-Vagga
• Gahvaratīra.-The name of the place where the Thera Gahvaratīriya lived (ThagA.i.91f).
• Gahvaratīriya (Gavharatīriya) Thera
• Gajabāhu, Gajabhuja
• Gajabhuja
• Gajakumbha Jātaka (No.345)
• Gajakumbhakapāsāna.-A locality in Ceylon, through which passed the Sīmā marked out by Devānampiyatissa for the Mahā Vihāra. Mhv., p.332, v.12; Dpv.xiv.35; Mbv.135.
• Gajjabāhukagāmani
• Gajjagiri.-A mountain in Aparantaka. Sās.35.
• Galambatittha
• Gālhagangā.-A river in South Ceylon which was once decreed to be the boundary of Rohana. It is generally identified with Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.xlviii.132; Cv. Trs.i.122, n.4.
• Gallakapītha.-A village in Ceylon. Five hundred youths from the village were ordained by Mahinda, soon after his arrival in Ceylon. Mhv.xvii.59.
• Gālurajju.-A river in South Ceylon. Cv.lxxv.34; see also Cv. Trs.147, n.1.
• Gāmakasetthi.-The name, of the treasurer whose daughter was married by Ghosakasetthi. AA.i.230; the DhA. account does not mention the man’s name.
• Gāmanī
• Gāmani-Canda Jātaka (No.257)
• Gāmani-Canda.-A servant of Janasandha, king of Benares. For his story see the Gāmani-Canda Jātaka.
• Gāmani-Jātaka (No.8).-The story of Prince Gāmanī (J.i.136f). For details see the Samvara Jātaka.
• Gāmani-Samyutta.-The fifty-second Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. It contains accounts of sermons preached by the Buddha to various headmen (gāmanī) (S.iv.305-59).
• Gāmanitissa.-A tank made by King Gajabāhu and given for the maintenance of the Abhayagiri-vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.120.
• Gāmanivāpi.-A tank near Anurādhapura. Near it was a hermitage built by Pandukābhaya. Mhv.x.96; see Mhv.Trs., p.75, n.1.
• Gāmantā.-See Mahā Sīva (2), also Vāmatna ??.
• Gāmantapabbhāravāsī Mahā Sīva.-See Mahā Sīva.
• Gambhīra 1.-A seaport village, visited by Mittavindaka in the course of his flight from Benares. J.i.239.
• Gambhīra 2.-A channel branching off from the Parakkama Samudda. It started at the point of the flood-escape known as Makara. Cv.lxxix.40.
• Gambhīracāri.-The name of one of the two otters in the Dabbha-puppha Jātaka (q.v.). J.iii.333.
• Gambhīranadī.-A river, one yojana north of Anurādhapura; the bricks for the Mahā Thūpa and for the Thupas of the three former Buddhas were prepared on its banks (Mhv.xxviii.7; MT.508). On its bank was Upatissagāma. Mhv.vii.44.
• Gambhīra-Satta.-Four conditions — following after the good, hearing the Dhamma, paying systematic attention thereto, and living in accordance with its precepts — which, if cultivated, lead to profound insight. S.v.412.
• Gāmendavālamahā-vihāra
• Gamika.-Father of the nun Mahātissā. Dpv.xviii.39.
• Gamitthavāli Vihāra.-A monastery in Rohana, founded by Kākavanna-Tissa. Mhv.xxii.23.
• Ganadevaputtā
• Ganaka-Moggallāna
• Ganaka-Moggallāna-Sutta
• Ganakaputta-Tissa Thera.-Probably a Commentator. Buddhaghosa quotes him in the Anguttara Commentary (AA.i.439) as explaining the term tisa-hassīmahāsahassī differently from the commonly accepted interpretation.
• Ganānanda-Parivena.-A monastery at Rājagāma in Ceylon, the residence of the Elder Maittreya Mahā Thera. P.L.C.248.
• Ganapeta-Vatthu.-The story of a large number of people of Sāvatthi who, because of their misdeeds, had been born as petas. Pv.iv.10; PvA.269f.
• Ganatissa.-Son of Panduvāsudeva (Mbv.112). According to the Rājāvaliya, he reigned as king for forty years. See also Cv. Trs.ii.Introd. p.ix.
• Ganda.-Gardener of Pasenadi, king of Kusala. It was he who offered to the Buddha the mango, the seed of which produced the Gandamba (J.iv.264). The Apadāna Commentary (i.97) calls the gardener Gandabba, and the Divyāvadana (p.157) calls him Gandaka.
• Gandābharana.-A book composed by Ariyavamsa. v.l. Gandhā-bharana. Gv.65, 75; Sās., p.98.
• Gandāladoni.-A monastery in Ceylon, near the modern Kandy. The stucco work of the vihāra was carried out by Parakkamabāhu VI. Cv.xci.30.
• Gandamba
• Ganda-Sutta.-The body is like a festering sore (ganda), full of pus, with nine openings, constantly exuding matter. A.iv.386f.
• Gandatindu Jātaka (No.520)
• Gandha (Sutta)
• Gandhabbā
• Gandhabba.-An attendant of King Eleyya and a follower of Uddaka Rāmaputta. A.ii.180.
• Gandhabbadvāra.-One of the gates of Pulatthipura. Cv.lxxiii.163.
• Gandhabbakāya Samyutta.-The thirty-first chapter of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.249-53.
• Gandhabbakāyikā.-See Gandhabbā.
• Gandhabbarājā.-The name given to Sakka in the Vidhurapandita Jātaka (J.vi.260).
• Gandhābhārana.-See Gandābharana.
• Gandhabhava.-See Bhadragaka.
• Gandhagata.-See Bhadragaka.
• Gandhakuti
• Gandhamādana
• Gandhamāliya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he offered to the Buddha Siddhattha a gandha-thūpa covered with sumana-flowers. Forty kappas ago he became king, sixteen times, under the name of Devagandha. Ap.i.135.
• Gandhamutthiya Thera.-An arahant. One hundred thousand kappas ago he gave a handful of perfume for the construction of a (Buddha’s) funeral pyre. Ap.i.292; cp. Gandhapūjaka.
• Gandhapūjaka Thera.-An arahant. In the past he put a handful of perfume on the funeral pyre of the Buddha (Padumuttara) (Ap.ii.406). He is probably identical with Hārita. ThagA.i.376.
• Gandhāra
• Gandhāra Jātaka (No.406)
• Gandhāra- or Gandhārī-vijjā
• Gandhāra.-A mountain in Himavā. J.vi.579.
• Gandhārarājā.-The king of Gandhāra is several times mentioned by this name; it is evidently a title and not a proper name. E.g., J.i.191; ii.219f.; iii.364ff; iv.98.
• Gandhāravagga.-The second chapter of the Sutta Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary (J.iii.363-421).
• Gandhathūpiya Thera.-An arahant, probably identical with Gandha-māliya (q.v.). The same verses are attributed to both. Ap.i.267.
• Gandhavamsa
• Gandhavilepana Sutta.-Few are those who abstain from flowers, scents, etc.; many are those who do not. S.v.471.
• Gandhodaka (-kadāyaka) Thera
• Gandhodakiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vipassī and sprinkled perfumed water on him. Thirty-one kappas ago he became king, under the name of Sugandha (Ap.i.157f). He is probably identical with Ātuma Thera. ThagA.i.160f.
• Gandimitta.-See Kanhamitta.
• Gangā
• Gangādoni.-A hill in the Manimekhala district in Ceylon. The general Sankha founded a city there during Māgha’s invasion. The hill was only two yojanas away from Māgha’s capital, but provided quite a safe retreat. Cv.lxxxi.7f.
• Gangalatittha.-A ford on the Kadamba-nadī near Anurādhapura. It was the starting-point of the boundary line which Devānampiyatissa laid down for the Mahā Vihāra. MT.361; cf. Mbv.136.
• Gangamāla Jātaka (No.421)
• Gangamāla.-A barber who later became a Pacceka Buddha. See Gangamāla Jātaka.
• Gangāmāti Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, to which Jetthatissa III. gave Keheta as its maintenance village. Cv.xliv.99.
• Gangāpeyyāla
• Gangarājī.-A district to the east of Anurādhapura, where Kanittha-tissa built the Anulatissapabbata Vihāra. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
• Gangārāma.-Also called Rājamahā Vihāra, a monastery founded by Kittisirirājasīha on the bank of the Mahāvāluka-gangā near Kandy (Cv.c.202). There Rājādhīrājasīha erected a cetiya. Cv.ci.17.
• Gangārohana Sutta
• Gangārohana Vatthu.-The account of the Buddha’s visit to Vesāli which he paid in order to preach the Ratana Sutta (qx.). DhA.iii.436ff.
• Gangāsenakapabbata Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon built by Mahāsena (Mhv.xxxvii.41).
• Gangāsiripura.-The Pāli name for the town of Gampola in Ceylon (Cv.xxxxvi.18). In it was an ancient vihāra, the Nigamaggāmapāsāda (Cv.lxxxviii.48). Bhuvaneka-bāhu IV. made it his capital. Cv.xc.107.
• Gangā-Sutta.-Preached to a brahmin at Veluvana. Incalculable is the beginning of Samsāra, incalculable the aeons that have passed by, like the sands of the Gangā. S.ii.153.
• Gangātata, Gangātataka, Gangātalāka
• Gangātīriya Thera
• Gangā-tissa.-See Ariyagāla-tissa.
• Gangā-Vīci.-One of the four kinds of waves that rise in the sea. Each wave of this class rises to a height of fifty leagues. VibhA.502.
• Gangeyya
• Gangeyya Jātaka (No.205)
• Ganthākara-parivena.-A dwelling attached to the Mahāvihāra at Anurādhapura, where Buddhaghosa stayed during his sojourn in Ceylon and where he wrote his Commentaries (Cv.xxxvii.243). The parivena was restored by Kassapa V. Cv.lii.57.
• Ganthambatittha.-A ford in the Mahāvālukagangā. There an uda-kakkhepasīmā was erected by Vimaladhammasūriya I (Cv.xciv.17). The name is the Pāli equivalent for the Sinhalese Gātambé.
• Ganthimāna.-A village in Ceylon, given by Parakkamabāhu IV. for the maintenance of the temple at Devapura (Devanagara). Cv.xc.95.
• Ganthipupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he gave a ganthi-flower to the Buddha Vipassī. Forty-one kappas ago he was a king named Varana (Ap.i.162). He is probably identical with Hatthārohaputta. ThagA.i.170.
• Ganthisāra.-A book composed by Saddhammajotipāla; it is evidently an anthology or manual composed from important texts. Bode, op. cit., p.18; Gv. (p.64) calls it Gandhasāra.
• Garahadinna
• Garahita-Jātaka (No.219)
• Garahitapitthipāsāna.-See Garahita Jātaka.
• Gārava-Sutta
• Garītara.-A tank in Ceylon constructed by Moggallāna II, by damming the Kadambanadī. Cv.xli.61.
• Garudā, Garulā
• Garula.-One of the palaces occupied by Phussa Buddha in his last lay-life (Bu.xix.15). The Commentary (BuA.192) calls it Garulapakkha.
• Gatārāparivena.-A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Upatapassī, author of the Vuttamālā. PLC.253.
• Gatasaññaka Thera
• Gāthā
• Gatikathā.-The sixth section of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidā-magga. Ps.ii.73-8.
• Gatimba.-See Mahāgatimba.
• Gatipacchedana.-A king of eighty-four kappas ago; a previous birth of Sammukhāthavika (Ap.i.159) (or Mānava). ThagA.i.163.
• Gatipakarana.-A book composed by a thera of Pakudhanagara. Gv.65; but see p.75, where the author is said to belong to Ceylon.
• Gati-Sutta.-The five conditions of birth — in purgatory, among lower animals, petas, men or devas. A.iv.459.
• Gatiyopañcaka Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Sacca Samyutta and the last chapter of the Samyutta Nikaya. S.v.474f.
• Gavaccha.-See Cūla-Gavaccha and Mahā-Gavaccha.
• Gavaghātaka Sutta.-Moggallāna reports to the Buddha that, while descending Gijjhakūta, he saw a vast lump of flesh flying through the air. The Buddha says it was a cattle butcher of Rājagaha, born as a peta. S.ii.256.
• Gavampati (Sutta)
• Gavapāna.-The name of a special almsgiving held in honour of Mangala Buddha by the Bodhisatta, when he was born as the brabmin Suruci. The chief item of food was a kind of pudding made of milk, rice and honey. Bu.iv.11; BuA.122.
• Gavara.-A Tamil general of Dona, subdued by Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxv.11.
• Gavaratissa Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, built by King Bhātika-Tissa, who also constructed for its maintenance the Mahāmani tank. Mhv.xxxvi.3.
• Gavaravāliya-angana.-A monastic establishment in Ceylon, the residence of Pitamalla Thera and thirty others. MA.i.190.
• Gavesī
• Gavesī-Sutta.-The story of Gavesī.
• Gavha.-See Gahva ??.
• Gayā
• Gayā-Kassapa
• Gayāsīsa
• Gayā-Sutta
• Gayātittha, Gayā-phaggu, -phaggunī, Gayā-phaggunītittha.-See Gayā (2).
• Gāyikā.-One of the four wives of Candakumāra. J.vi.148.
• Gedha-Sutta.-See Anussati Sutta.
• Gelañña-Sutta
• Getthumba.-A canal. The taxes paid for the use of its water for tillage were given by Mahinda III. for the repairs of the Ratanapāsāda. Cv.xlix.41.
• Geyya.-The second section of the Tipitaka arranged according to matter (angavasena). It includes all the suttas composed in verse, especially the whole Sagāthakavagga of the Samyutta Nikāya. DA.i.23f.