Pali Proper Names — N

• Nābhasa. A class of Nāgas living in the lake Nābhasa (DA.ii.688); they were present at the Mahāsamaya. DA.ii.258.
• Nābhasa. A lake, the residence of Nāgas called Nābhasā. DA.ii.688.
• Nacca-Jataka (No. 32)
• Nacca-Sutta. Few are they who abstain from witnessing exhibitions of dancing and singing, more numerous they who do not.' S.v.470.
• Nadibhandagāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.104; see also Cv.Trs, ii.55, n.1.
• Nādika. See Ñātikā (??).
• Nadi-Kassapa
• Nadi-Sutta
• Na-dubbhiya Sutta. Sakka once made up his mind not to betray even his enemy. Soon after, Vepacitti, discerning his thoughts, approached him. Sakka wished to take him prisoner, but Vepacitti undertook to show him no treachery. (S.1.225).
• Nāga
• Nāgā
• Nāgacatukka
• Nāgadāsaka
• Nāgadatta
• Nāgadeva. One of the descendants of Mahāsammata. He reigned in Campā, and twenty five of his descendants reigned in Mithilā (Dpv.iii.29).
• Nāgadīpa
• Nāgagāma.-A village in Nāgadīpa. Ras.ii.51.
• Nāgakāragāma.-A village in the north of Ceylon. Ras.ii.191.
• Nāgakesariya Thera. An arahant. In the past he was a hunter, and, while wandering in the forest, he saw a full blown nāga flower and offered it with both hands to Tissa Buddha. Seventy seven kappas ago he was a king named Pamokkharana. Ap.i.222.
• Nāgalena
• Nāgamahāvihira
• Nāgamālaka
• Nāgamandala paritta (or Nāgamandalamanta). Mentioned as a charm possessing the power of bringing blessings on others. VibhA.410,411.
• Nāgamundā. A female slave, mistress of Mahānāma the Sākiyan. She was the mother of Vāsabhakhattiyā. J.i.133; iv.145.
• Nāgamundā. An eminent theri of Anurādhapura, a teacher of the Vinaya. Dpv.xviii.34.
• Nāgapabbatagāma. A village in the province of Malaya in Ceylon. Cv.lxx.10.
• Nāgapalivethana. One of the seven mountain ranges which must be crossed in order to reach Gandhamādana. SNA.i.66.
• Nāgapattana. The port from which Buddhaghosa sailed for Ceylon. SadS.53.
• Nāgapeta Vatthu
• Nāgapupphiya Thera
• Nagara. The name of King Madda’s capital (?) J.v.310.
• Nagaragalla. A village in Ceylon gifted by Mahinda I. for the maintenance of a nunnery built by him. Cv.xlviii.36.
• Nagaraka (v.l. Nangaraka)
• Nagarakhanda. A section of the Bhuridatta Jātaka, dealing with the marriage of Samuddajā to Dhatarattha. J.vi.167.
• Nagarapavesana-khanda. A section of the Bhuridatta Jātaka, which deals with the capture of the Bodhisatta by Alambāyana and his ultimate release by Sudassana and Accimukhi. J.vi.197.
• Nagara-Sutta
• Nagaravinda. A brahmin village in Kosala where the Buddha once stayed during a tour and where he preached the Nagaravindeyya Sutta. M.iii.290.
• Nagaravindeyya Sutta. Preached to the brahmins of Nagaravinda. One should honour and reverence only such Wanderers as have shed lust and hate and folly, have a tranquil heart, and walk in the paths of righteousness. Such Wanderers dwell in remote solitudes where there exists nothing which might excite their senses. M.iii.290ff.
• Nagarūpama Sutta. The seven defenses and the four kinds of supplies which make a king’s frontier fortress unassailable by enemies and the corresponding qualities in a noble disciple which render him unassailable by Māra. A.iv.106ff.
• Nāgasālā
• Nāgasamālā. One of the two chief women disciples of Sujata Buddha. Bu.xiii.26; J.i.38.
• Nāgasamāla-Thera
• Nāgasena
• Nāgasondi. A bathing tank in Cetiyapabbata, restored by Aggabodhi I. (Cv.xlii.28). It is probably the modern Nāgapokuna where, hewn in the face of the rock, the heads of a cobra (nāga) seem to rise out of the water. (Cv.Trs.i.68, n.8)
• Nāgavaddhana. A monastery in Ceylon, on which Udaya I, bestowed many maintenance villages. Cv.xlix.21.
• Nāgavana. A pleasance near Hatthigāma, belonging to Uggagahapati. It was there that he first met the Buddha and was converted. A.iv.213; AA.ii.782.
• Nāga-Vihāra. See Nāgamahā vihāra.
• Nāgavimāna Vatthu
• Naggadipa. An island where the children of Vijaya and of his companions landed on being expelled from Lāla. Mhv.vi.45; Dpv.ix.13.
• Naggaji
• Nagga-Vagga. The third section of the Pacittiya in the Bhikkhuni Vibhanga. Vin.iv.278 88.
• Nāgindapalliya. An eminent Thera of Ceylon in the time of Parakkamabāhu I.; he was the leader of the monks in Dakkhinadesa. Cv.lxxviii.9.
• Nāgita
• Nāgopama Sutta. See Nāga Sutta (5).
• Na-hoti Tathāgata Sutta. One of the many views existing in the world due to want of enlightenment. S.iii.215.
• Na-jirati Sutta. A series of questions asked by a deva and the Buddha’s answers. The first question is, “What doth decay and what doth not?” The answer is that material shapes of mortals decay, but not their name. (S.1.43)
• Najūpama. Ninety four kappas ago there was five hundred kings of this name, all previous births of Uppalahatthiya (Valliya) Thera. v.l.. Sabbūpasama. Ap.i.141; ThagA.i.125.
• Nakānibilu. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv. lxxvii. 75.
• Nakhā-cetiya. A holy shrine in Ceylon (at Anurādhapura?). It is mentioned among places at which festivals were held by Kittisirirājasiha. Cv.xcix.38.
• Nakhasikhā Sutta
• Nakkhatta Jātaka (No. 49)
• Nakula
• Nakulā (1-3)
• Nakulakannikā.-See Nakula.
• Nakulanagara
• Nakulanigama. The village in which lived Nakulā (3). BuA. 163.
• Nakulapitā
• Nālā
• Nāla, Nālaka, Nālika
• Nala. A Gandhabba chieftain (D.ii.258) to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. Ibid.,iii.204.
• Nālagāma. A village in the Malaya district in Ceylon. Cv.lxx.296.
• Nalagārika Thera
• Nālāgiri
• Nālaka
• Nalaka. The personal name of Mahā Kaccāna (q.v.), Kaccāna being his gotta name.
• Nalakalāpiya Sutta. A discussion between Sāriputta and Mahā Kotthita at the Migadāya in Isipatana. Sāriputta says that each link in the chain of causation depends upon the one next to it. It is as if two sheaves of reeds stand, leaning one against the other; if one is pushed, the other must fall. S.ii.112f.
• Nalakapāna
• Nalakāra
• Nalakāragāma. A village mentioned in the Subha Sutta (M.ii.206) as being not far from Sāvatthi.
• Nālaka-Sutta
• Nālaka-Thera. Given as an example of an ugghatitaññū-puggala. After hearing, only once, the teaching of Pacceka Buddhas, he became himself a Pacceka Buddha. AA.i.354.
• Nalakhandapadhāna.-A practising hall. It was the residence of Culapindapatiyanaga Thera. Ras.ii.145.
• Nalakutidāyaka Thera
• Nalamāla, Nalamālī
• Nalamālika Therī
• Nalamāliya Thera
• Nālandā
• Nalannaru. A tank in Ceylon, repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.47.
• Nalapāna Jātaka (No. 20)
• Nalasākiyā
• Nalāta. See Lalāta.
• Nala-Vagga. The first chapter of the Samyutta Nikaya. S.i.1 5.
• Nalerupucimanda
• Nālijangha. A brahmin, whom Mallikā sent to the Buddha to find out if it were true that the Buddha had said that loved ones brought morrow and tribulation. M.ii.108.
• Nālika. A Damila general, in charge of Nālisobbha. He was defeated by Dutthagāmani. Mhv.xxv.11.
• Nālika. A mountain in Himavā, on the way to the Mucalinda Lake. Vessantara passed it on his way to Vankagiri. J.vi.518, 519.
• Nālikera. An island, with many attendant islands. When the country of King Bharu (q.v.) was destroyed because he took bribes, those who had blamed him for his unrighteousness were saved and found shelter in the islands round Nālikera. J.ii.173.
• Nālikeradāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he was a park keeper in Bandhumatī and gave to the Buddha a nālikera-fruit (Ap.ii.447f). He is probably identical with Kundala Thera (ThagA.i.72) or with Khitaka Thera (Ibid., 315).
• Nālikeramahāthambha. A tank in Ceylon, restored by Parakkamabāhu. Cv.lxxix.33.
• Nālikeravatthutittha. A ford in the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.lxxii.14.
• Nālikīra (Nālikera)
• Nalinakesariya Thera
• Nalini. The kingdom of Vessavana. J.vi.313; but VvA. (339, 340) explains Nalini as a kilanatthāna. This agrees with D.iii.202, where mention is made of a Kuvera nalini as one of the beauties of Vessavana’s kingdom.
• Nalini-Jātaka. See Nalinikā Jataka.
• Nalinikā. Daughter of the king of Kāsi. She seduced Isisinga. For her story see Nalinikā-Jataka.
• Nalinikā-Jataka (No. 526)
• Nalira. One of the palaces occupied by Sobhita Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.vii.17.
• Nālisobbha. A Damila stronghold in charge of Nālika, and captured by Dutthagāmani. Mhv.xxv.11.
• Nāmācāradīpanī. An Abhidhamma treatise, probably composed by Chapata. Bode: op. cit., 18.
• Nāmarūpaparjecheda
• Nāmarūpasamāsa
• Nāmarūpa-Sutta. In him who contemplates the enjoyment of all that makes for fettering there comes descent of name and shape. The remaining links in the chain of causation follow on this. S.ii.90.
• Nāmasiddhi Jataka (No. 97)
• Nāma-Sutta. Preached in answer to a deva’s question   nāma, more than anything else, brings everything beneath its sway. S.i.39.
• Nammadā
• Namuci. A name for Māra (q.v.), given because he does not allow either gods or men to escape from his clutches, but works them harm. SNA.ii.386.
• Nānacchanda Jataka (No. 289)
• Nānādhimuttiya Sutta. Anuruddha tells his colleagues that by cultivating the four satipatthānas he has come to know the divers characters of beings (S.v.305).
• Nānātitthiya-Sutta
• Nānātitthiya-Vagga. The third chapter of the Devaputta Samyutta. S.i.56 68.
• Nānatta-Vagga. The first chapter of the Dhātu Samyutta (S.ii.140 9).
• Nanda
• Nandā
• Nandādevī. Chief queen of Cūlani Brahmadatta, king of Pañcāla. She is identified with Yasassikā. J.vi.434ff., 478; for details see Mahāummagga Jitaka.
• Nandagopā
• Nandaka
• Nandakovāda Sutta
• Nandamāla
• Nandamānava pucchā. The questions asked of the Buddha by Nandamānava, pupil of Bāvarī, and the Buddha’s replies thereto. It forms the seventh sutta of the Parāyana Vagga (SN.vs.1077 83) and is commented upon in the Cullaniddesa. CNid.26ff.
• Nandamātā Sutta. Gives the story of the encounter between Velukantakī Nandamātā (q.v.) and Vessavana. A.iv.63ff.
• Nandamātā. See Uttarā Nandamātā and Velukaptakī Nandamātā.
• Nandāmūlakagāma.A village in Ceylon near Alisāra, mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. There was a castle there captured  by Māyāgeha. Cv.lxx.164.
• Nandamūlapabbhāra
• Nandana. A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthi and asked him questions regarding virtue, wisdom, etc. The Buddha answered them, and he went away satisfied. S.i.62.
• Nandana-parivena. A monastery built in Devanapra by Vīrabāhu, nephew of Parakkamabāhu II. Cv.lxxxiii.50.
• Nandana-pokkharanī. A lake of great splendour in Nandanavana, having one hundred bathing places and one thousand inlets, and covered with the five kinds of lotus. J.ii.189; cp. Nandā pokkharanī. Elsewhere (e.g., J.vi.333) it is called Nandanavana pokkharanī.
• Nandana-Sutta
• Nandana-Vagga. The second chapter of the Devatā Samyutta. S.i.5-13.
• Nandanavana
• Nandanavimāna Vatthu. A story of a man who looked after his parents and continued to do so after his marriage. He was later born in Tāvatimsa, where he was visited by Moggallāna. Vv.vii.2; VvA.300f.
• Nandapañña.-A native of Hamsarattha; author of the Gandhavamsa (q.v.).
• Nandāpokkharanī. A lake, five hundred leagues in extent, in the Nandanavana in Tāvatimsa, which arose there as the result of the merit of Nandā, wife of Magha. (J.i.204, 205; vi. 132, 232, 531; DhA.i.275.) v.l. Nandanapokkharanī (q.v.). 
• Nandarājā and Nandarājadevī. See Nanda (11).
• Nandārāma
• Nandarāmā. One of the chief women supporters of Paduma Buddha. Bu.ix.23.
• Nandasārathī. Chief warrior of Elāra. He was killed by Velusumana. MT.315.
• Nandasena. An Upāsaka of a village near Sāvatthi. His wife, Nandā, was a wicked woman and, after death, became a peta. When she revealed herself to him, Nandasena gave alms in her name, and she gained happiness. Pv.ii.4; PvA.89ff.
• Nandatissārāma. A monastery in Ceylon built by Kapitthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.14.
• Nandati-Sutta. A deva visits the Buddha and tells him of various sources of gladness   children, cattle and sense pleasures. The Buddha replies that these are really all sources of sorrow. S.i.6; op. ibid.,107.
• Nandavaccha. See Nanda (13).
• Nandavatī. A nun, sister of Thullanandā. Her other two sisters were Nandā and Sundarīnandā. They were all married to the same brahmin and all left the world after his death. Vin.iv.211, 259.
• Nandhimitta (Nandimitta)
• Nandī.-The name of Mahā Kassapa when he was king of Benares. The story is given in Ras.i.26f. The name if; evidently a variant of Nanda. See Nanda (11).
• Nandicakka. An Elder who came to Ceylon at the head of a chapter of monks from Rakkhanga, at the request of King Vimaladhammasūriya, in order to confer the upasampadā ordination on the monks of Ceylon. Cv. xciv.15.
• Nandigāma
• Nandika. A Damila chieftain of Nandigāma. Mhv.xxv.14.
• Nandikkhaya-Sutta
• Nandikkhaya-Vagga. The sixteenth chapter of the Salāyatana Samyutta. S.iv.142 8
• Nandimitta. See Nandhimitta. See also Ras.ii.78 f. for a very detailed story.
• Nandimitta-Vihāra.-A monastery built by Nandimitta on the banks of the Jajjaranadī. Ras.ii.81.
• Nandipadmara. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara; he was captured by the Sinhalese forces. Cv.lxxvii.86.
• Nandirāja-Vagga.-The second section of the Rasavāhinī.
• Nandisena
• Nandivaddha. One of the chief lay supporters of Anomadassī Buddha. Bu.viii.24.
• Nandivaddhana.-One of the ten sons of Kālāsoka.
• Nandivānija
• Nandivāpigāma. A village in Ceylon, residence of Dhātusena, father of Dāthānāma (Cv.xxxviii.14). Gokanna, officer of Gajabāhu, was once defeated there (Ibid.,lxx.72). The village is perhaps identical with Nandigāma.
• Nandivisāla
• Nandivisāla-Jataka (No. 28)
• Nandivisāla-Sutta. Records the visit of the deva Nandivisāla (2) to the Buddha. S.i.63.
• Nandiya
• Nandiyamiga-Jātaka (No. 385)
• Nandiyāvatta. The name of a huge fish dwelling in the ocean. AA.i.285.
• NandopĀnanda
• Nanduttara
• Nangalakula-Thera
• Nangalisa-Jataka (No. 123)
• Nangaraka. See Nagaraka.
• Nanguttha-Jataka (No. 144)