Pali Proper Names — K

• Kabupelanda
• Kacangala.-See Kajangala.
• Kācaragāma, Kājaragāma, Kātaragāma
• Kaccāna
• Kaccānā
• Kaccāna Peyyāla/Sutta
• Kaccānī 1.-The old woman whose story is related in the story of the past in the Kaccāni Jātaka.
• Kaccānī 2.-See also Kātiyānī.
• Kaccāni Jātaka (No. 417)
• Kaccāni Vagga.-The first section of the Atthaka Nipāta of the Jātakattakathā. J.iii.422-28.
• Kaccāyana
• Kaccāyanabheda
• Kaccāyanagandha.-One of the six books ascribed to Mahā Kaccāyana (Gv.59); it probably refers to the Kaccāyana-vyākarana.
• Kaccāyanasāra
• Kaccāyanavannanā.-A commentary on Kaccāyana’s grammar by a thera of Ceylon, named Vijitāvī (Svd.1242). It deals with the sections on Sandhikappa. Bode, 46.
• Kaccāyana-vyākarana
• Kaccāyanayoga.-A name given to the aphorisms in Kaccāyana-vyākarana. Bode, op. cit., p.21.
• Kacchaka-(Kaccha-)tittha
• Kacchakadaha
• Kacchapa Jātaka (No. 178, 215, 273)
• Kacchapagiri.-Another name, according to the Mahāvamsa Tika (MT.652) for the Issarasamana-vihāra. It is perhaps a variation of Kassapagiri.
• Kacchavāla.-A monastery built for the Pamsukalikas by Vajira, general of Dappula II. Cv.xlix.80.
• Kadakudda
• Kadalīgāma
• Kadalīnivātaka
• Kadalīpattagāma.-A village in Rohana near the ford called Nīlavalā, and close to the modern Mātara. Cv.lxxv.49; Cv.Trs.ii.48, n.2.
• Kadalīphaladāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he saw a Buddha and gave him a banana fruit (Ap.i.297). He is probably identical with Cūlaka Thera (ThagA.i.334).
• Kadalīpupphiya.-See Kandalīpupphiya.
• Kadalisālagāma.-A village in Ceylon, the residence of Vilasa (q.v.).
• Kadalīvāta.-One of the Vanni kings of Ceylon, head of the mercenary soldiers who were driven out of Ceylon by Bhuvanekabāhu I. (Cv.xc.33).
• Kadamba, Kadambaka
• Kadambagona.-A vihāra built by Aggabodhi V. in Mahāthala, and probably presented to the Pamsukūlins. Cv.xlviii.3; Cv.Trs.i.110, n.1.
• Kadambapupphiya Thera
• Kaddamadaha.-A lake, on the bank of which was Vāranā, where Mahā-Kaccāna once stayed, and where he was visited by the brahmin Ārāmadanda. A.i.65.
• Kaddūragāma.-A village near Ālisāra; the village entrenchment was captured by Māyāgeha, general of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.165.
• Kaddūravaddhamāna
• Kadiliya.-A Damila chief who was defeated by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. at Kundayankotta. Cv.lxxvi.177.
• Kāhallivāpi.-A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.37.
• Kājagallaka.-A village in Ceylon, probably near modern Kurunegala. An elephant-stable was there, from which Bhuvanekabāhu I. took an elephant. Cv.xc.9.
• Kajangalā
• Kajangala (Kajangalā)
• Kāka
• Kāka Jātaka (No.140, 146, 395)
• Kāka Sutta.-The wicked monk is like a crow in that he possesses the same ten qualities: offensiveness, recklessness, shamelessness, excessive greed, cruelty, gruesomeness, want of strength, “earthyness” (? oravitā), bewilderment and meanness. A.v.149; see also G.S.v.101.
• Kakacūpama Sutta
• Kākadīpa
• Kākālaya.-A village in Ceylon where there was a Damila stronghold captured by Parakkamabāhu II. Cv.lxxxiii.12.
• Kākanda, Kākandī.-The commentaries speak of Kākanda as a sage of yore and mention him in the company of Savattha and Kusumba. His residence later came to be called Kākandī. SnA.i.300; cp. KhA.110; UdA.55.
• Kākandaka.-A brahmin, father of Yasa Thera, the latter being generally referred to as Yasa Kākandakaputta (q.v.). Mhv.iv.12, 49, 57, etc.; Dpv.v.23; Mbv.96.
• Kākaneru.-One of the highest mountains in the world; mentioned together with Mālāgiri, Himavā, Gijjha, Sudassana and Nisabha. J.vi.204, 212.
• Kākannādu.-A district in South India subdued by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.262.
• Kakantaka Jātaka.-The same as the Kakantaka-Pañha.
• Kakantaka-Pañha
• Kakantaka Vagga.-The fifteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.i.487-511.
• Kākātī Jātaka (No.327)
• Kākātī.-Chief queen of the Bodhisatta, in one of his births as king of Benares. See Kākātī Jātaka.
• Kākavaliya, Kākavalliya
• Kākavanna-Tissa
• Kakkara Jātaka (No. 209)
• Kakkarapatta.-A township of the Koliyans. It was while the Buddha was staying there that the Koliyan Dīghajānu came to see him. A.iv.281.
• Kakkāru Jātaka (No. 326)
• Kakkārupūjaka Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a deva and offered a kakkāru-flower to the Buddha Sikhī. Nine kappas ago he was a king named Sattuttama (Ap.i.177). He is evidently identical with Jenta Thera. ThagA.i.219.
• Kakkārupupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he was a deva in the Yāma-world and, approaching the Pacceka Buddha Gotama, offered him a kakkāru-flower. v.l. Kekkāru°. Ap.i.286.
• Kakkata
• Kakkata Jātaka (No. 267)
• Kakkatarasadāyaka-vimāna Vatthu
• Kakkhala
• Kakkhalavitthi.-A village given by Jetthatissa III. for the maintenance of the Veluvana-vihāra (near Anurādhapura). Cv.xliv.99.
• Kakkola.-A district in South India which supplied soldiers to Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.2.
• Kākola.-A hell; beings born there are dragged about by flocks of ravens, vultures and hawks, and eaten alive. J.vi.247.
• Kakubandhagāma.-A village in Rohana. Ras.ii.188.
• Kakubandhakandara.-A stream, near Pāsānavāpigāma. Ras.i.103.
• Kakudha
• Kakudha Sutta
• Kakudha Vagga.-The tenth chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.118-26.
• Kakusandha
• Kakusandha Sutta.-To Kakusandha, as to the Buddha before he was enlightened, came thoughts of the suffering in the world and of how it could be stopped. S.ii.9.
• Kakutthā (Kakutthā, Kukutthā)
• Kāla
• Kāla Sutta
• Kālabāhu Jātaka (No.329)
• Kālabāhu.-A monkey, a previous birth of Devadatta. See the Kālabāhu Jātaka. J.iii.97ff
• Kāla-bhikkhu Sutta.-See Kālaka(-bhikkhu) Sutta.
• Kalābu.-King of Kāsī. He tortured the ascetic Khantivādī who was the Bodhisatta. He was therefore swallowed up in Avīci. He was a previous incarnation of Devadatta. The story is given in the Khantivādī Jātaka (J.iii.39ff; he is often referred to, e.g., J.v.135,143ff).
• Kāla-Buddharakkhita
• Kālacampā
• Kāladāna Sutta.-The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 1) for Kāla Sutta (3).
• Kāladeva
• Kāladevala
• Kāladīghagāma
• Kāladīghavāpi
• Kāladīghāvika.-A padhānaghara built by Hatthadātha. Cv.xlvi.46.
• Kālagāma. A village in Ceylon. A minister of this village is given as an example of a man who committed suicide in remorse (vippatisārī). SnA.i.30.
• Kālagiri, Kālāgiri.-See Kālapabbata.
• Kālagiribhanda.-A district in Ceylon. The forces of Parakkamabāhu I. fought there twenty battles before it could be brought under subjection (Cv.lxxii.62). It is identified with the modern Kalugalboda-rata. Cv.Trs.i.325, n.1.
• Kālāgiri-khana.-That section of the Vidhurapandita Jātaka which ends with the bringing of Vidhura by Punnaka to the realm of the Nāgas. J.vi.314.
• Kalahanagara.-A village built on the spot where Pandukābhaya defeated the soldiers sent by the father of Suvannapālī to rescue her. Mhv.x.42; see also Mhv.Trs.71, n.1, for its identification.
• Kālahatthi
• Kalahavivāda Sutta
• Kalahayinādu.-A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
• Kālaka
• Kālaka Sutta
• Kalakacchagāma.-A village in Ceylon, near Kalyānī. At the Nāga-mahā-vihāra there the thera Maliyadeva preached the Cha-chakka Sutta; sixty monks heard it and became arahants. MA.ii.1025.
• Kālakagāma.-A village in Ceylon in which was the Mandalārāma, the residence of the Elder Mahāsona (q.v.). VibhA.448. It was evidently the same as Kallagama (q.v.).
• Kālakañjakā
• Kālakannī
• Kālakannī Jātaka (No.83)
• Kālakārāma Sutta.-See Kālaka Sutta.
• Kālakārāma.-The park presented to the Buddha by Kālaka, and the monastery he built therein for the Buddha. The Buddha stayed there on his visit to Sāketa at Cūla-Subhaddā’s request. A.ii.24; AA.ii.482.
• Kālakhemaka
• Kālakūta.-One of the five mountain ranges surrounding Anotatta. It has the colour of añjana (collyrium). SnA.ii.437; UdA.300; AA.ii.759; MA.ii.585.
• Kalalahallika. A village and tank near Ālisāra. There was a fortification there.. The tank was restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.48; lxx.73, 163; also Cv. Trs.i.301, n.1.
• Kālāma
• Kālamahī.-A branch of the river Mahā-Mahī, which it later rejoins. SnA.i.27.
• Kālamattika.-A tank given by Jetthatissa for the use of the Cetiyapabbata-vihāra. Mhv.xxxvi.130.
• Kālamattiya, Kālamattika.-A forest. Mutthika, after his death, was born as a goblin in this forest, and when Baladeva reached the spot during his flight, Mutthika challenged him to a wrestling match and ate him up “like a radish-bulb.” J.iv.82, 88.
• Kalamba.-A river near Anurādhapura, probably identical with Kadamba (Sp.ii.474) (q.v.). The river was to the east of Anurādhapura. MA.ii.653.
• Kalambadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he met a Pacceka Buddha named Romasa and gave him a radish (kalamba). Ap.ii.393.
• Kalambaka-Vihāra.-A monastery built by King Saddhātissa. Mhv.xxxvii.8.
• Kalambatittha-Vihāra
• Kālanadī.-A river in Ceylon, the present Kaluganga. Devapatirāja built over the river a bridge of eighty-six cubits and laid out a garden of coco palms from the river to Bhīmatittha-vihāra. Cv.xlvi.40, 44.
• Kālanāga.-See Mahā-Kāla.
• Kālanāgara.-The family to which the general Parakkama belonged. Cv.lxxx.49.
• Kalandagāma.-A brahmin village in Ceylon, where King Mahāsena built a vihāra on the site of an old Hindu temple. Mhv.xxxvii.41.
• Kalandakagāma.-A village near Vesāli; it was the birthplace of Sudinna (Vin.iii.11). Buddhaghosa (Sp.i.202) says the name was given because of the squirrels who lived there.
• Kalandakanivāpa
• Kalandakaputta.-See Sudinna. Kalanda or Kalandaka was the name, not of his father, but of his village. Sp.i.202.
• Kalanda-Vihāra
• Kalanduka Jātaka (No.127)
• Kalanduka.-A servant of the Treasurer of Benares (Bārānasī-setthi). See Kalanduka Jātaka.
• Kālapabbata
• Kālapāsāna(-pāsāda)-parivena
• Kālapāsāna.-A tank in Ceylon; one of sixteen tanks built by King Nabāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.49.
• Kālapilla.-A locality in Rohana in Ceylon. There the troops of Parakkamabāhu I. defeated those of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.325.
• Kalāra Sutta
• Kālārajanaka
• Kalārakhattiya Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Nidāna Samyutta. S.ii.47-68.
• Kalārakkhattiya.-A monk. He visits Sāriputta and tells him of Moliya-Phagguna’s secession from the Order. The account of the incident is included in the Kalāra Sutta (q.v.).
• Kalāramatthuka
• Kālasela.-A statue of the Buddha. See Silāsambuddha.
• Kālasena
• Kalasigāma.-The birthplace of Milinda in the Island of Alasandā (or Alexandria) in the Indus (Mil.83). Rhys Davids (Milinda Questions, i., p.xxiii) thinks that the name is identical with that of the Greek settlement Karisi.
• Kālasilā
• Kālāsoka
• Kālasumana.-Thera. One of those responsible for preserving the Vinaya in Ceylon after the death of Mahinda. Vin.v.3; Sp.i.104.
• Kālasutta.-One of the principal hells (J.v.266, 267, 268). Beings born there are placed on a floor of heated iron, marked with a black thread made red hot, and then cut into pieces along the markings (J.v.270).
• Kālatinduka Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.165.
• Kālatittha.-A locality in Rohana. There Vikkamapandu had his seat of government (Cv.lvi.12). It is identified with the modern Kalutara, at the mouth of the Kaluganga.
• Kālāvaka.-The tribe of ordinary elephants, each one of which possesses the strength of ten men. MA.i.263; UdA.403; VibhA.397; BuA.37, etc.
• Kālavalli.-A tank repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiz.36.
• Kālavallimandapa.-A vihāra in Ceylon, the residence of the Elder Mahānāga (DA.i.190, 191; SnA.i.56; VbhA.352, 353; J.iv.490; MT.606). It was near the village Nakulanagara (DhsA.339) and was situated in Rohana (AA.i.384).
• Kālavela
• Kālavilangika.-See Mahā Kassapa.
• Kalāyamutthi Jātaka (No.176)
• Kālāyanakannika.-A locality in Rohana. There Mahādāthika Mahānāga built two vihāras, Manināgapabbata and Kalanda. Mhv.xxxiv.89; MT.637.
• Kālī
• Kāli Sutta
• Kālī Sutta.-Kālī Kururaghara visits Mahā-Kaccāna and asks him for a detailed exposition of one of the stanzas in the Kumāripañhas. (The stanza occurs at S.i.126). Mahā-Kaccāna explains, and his explanation deals with the ten kasinas. A.v.46f
• Kāli.-A tank in Ceylon, built by King Vasabha (Mhv.xxxv.95). It was among those repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.45.
• Kāligodhā
• Kāligotamī.-See Gotamī (1).
• Kālikā.-See Kālī (9).
• Kalikāla.-A Damila chieftain, conquered by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.214f.
• Kalikāla-sāhicca-sabbaññupandita.-A honorific (“all-knowing scholar of the Dark Age”) given to Parakkamabāhu II. on account of his vast erudition. Cv.lxxxii.3.
• Kālikarakkhiya.-An ancient sage mentioned in a list of sages, together with Samudda, Bharata, Angīrasa, Kassapa, Kisavaccha and Akitti. J.vi.99.
• Kalimbha Thera (Kalimma).-One of the monks who lived in the Kūtāgārasālā in Vesālī. Finding that the peace of the Mahāvana was being disturbed by the Licchavis who came to see the Buddha, he, with the other monks, went to Gosingasālavana. A.v.133f.
• Kālindī.-A channel in the irrigation system of Parakkamabāhu I., flowing southward from the Manihīra tank. Cv.lxxix.54.
• Kālinga, Kalinga
• Kālinga-bhāradvāja.-The chaplain of King Kālinga. See the Kālingabodhi Jātaka. He was the Bodhisatta, and is sometimes called Kālinga-brāhmana (E.g., J.iv.235).
• Kālingabodhi Jātaka (No.479)
• Kalingara Sutta
• Kālingārañña.-See Kālinga (2).
• Kallagāma.-A village in Ceylon. In the village was the Mandālārāmaka-vihāra (q.v.). AA.i.22, 52.
• Kallakālena.-A monastery in Ceylon, built by Saddhātissa. Mhv.xxxiii.7.
• Kallakavelāra.-A Damila chief, brother of Tondamāna’s wife. He was slain by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.40, 50.
• Kallaka-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, near Bhokkantagāma. There Sumanā, wife of Lakuntaka Atimbam, heard the preaching of the Āsīvisopama Sutta and became an arahant. DhA.iv.51.
• Kallara.-A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.246, 259.
• Kallavā Sutta.-Of those who meditate some are clever in concentration but are not fully expert in meditation, some are the reverse, some have neither quality, while others have both. S.iii.265.
• Kallavāla, Kanavālamutta
• Kallita Sutta.-A man may be skilled in ease in concentration, but not in the range thereof, nor in resolve, zeal, perseverance, or profit. S.iii.275.
• Kāludāyī Thera
• Kālūla.-A monastery in Ceylon. Aggabodhi VIII, gave a village for its maintenance. Cv.xlix.47.
• Kālūpakāla.-The name of the warders in charge of a hell bearing the same name. They smite their victims with arrows and spears.
• Kālussa.-A village given by Udaya I, to the Nīlārāma (Cv.xlix.16).
• Kalyāna (Kalyānaka).-A king of the Mahāsammata race. He was the son of Vararoja and one of the ancestors of the Sākyans. His son was Varakalyāna. DA.i.258; SnA.i.352; J.ii.311; iii.464; Mhv.ii.2; Dpv.iii.4; Mtu.i.345.
• Kalyānabhatta-tissa.-See Ariyagāla-tissa.
• Kalyāna-dhamma Jātaka (No.171)
• Kalyāna-dhamma Vagga.-The third chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātaka. J.ii.63-86.
• Kalyānamitta Sutta
• Kalyānamitta Vagga.-The eighth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.14f.
• Kalyānavatī
• Kalyānī
• Kalyānī Sutta.-No beautiful woman (janapadakalyānī) can persistently possess the heart of a man who is fond of gain, favours, and flattery. S.ii.235.
• Kalyāni-(Kalyānika)-vihāra
• Kalyāni-Cetiya
• Kalyanigāma.-A village, probably in or near Kalyānī; it was the residence of Mahātissa Thera. SnA.i.6.
• Kalyānippakarana.-A record of the famous Kalyāni inscriptions set up near Pegu by Dhammaceti, giving details of the consecration of the Kalyānisīmā in Pegu by the monks who received their ordination at the Kalyāni-vihāra in Ceylon. Bode, 23, 38f.; P.L.C.257f.
• Kalyāni-Tissa.-A king of Kalyānī, father of Vihāramahādevī (Mhv.xxii.12ff). He was great-grandson of Mutasīva and grandson of Uttiya. His younger brother was called Ayya-Uttiya (MT.431).