Pali Proper Names — N

• Nārada
• Nāradakūta. A mountain, the dwelling place of the Yakkha Nārada 15. Bu.ii.199.
• Naradeva
• Naradevagāthā. A set of verses in praise of the Buddha, compiled by a Sinhalese monk. Gv.p.65.
• Naramittā. An eminent Therī of Anurādhapura. Dpv.xviii.15.
• Narapati Sithu. King of Pagan (1167 1202 A.C.). He was a very enlightened monarch and a great patron of learning. His tutor was Aggavamsa. For details see Bode: op. cit., 16, 20, 21, 23, 31.
• Narasīha
• Narasīhadeva. An officer of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.95, 174.
• Narasīhagāthi
• Narasīhapadmara. An ally of Kulasekhara. He was captured by Lankāpura. Cv.Ixxvii.76, 86.
• Naratungabrahmā. A Damila chieftain of South India, defeated by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I., near Rāmissara. Cv.Ixxvi.98.
• Naravāhana. One of the palaces occupied by Padumuttara Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.xi.20.
• Nārāyana
• Nārāyana sanghāta bala. The name given to a certain measure of physical strength. It was the equivalent of the strength of ten Chaddanta elephants and was the strength of the Buddha. VibhA.397; SNA.ii.401.
• Nāri. One of the palaces occupied by Tissa Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.xviii.17; BuA (188) calls it Nārisa.
• Narinda. A Nāga king, who gave grass for his seat to Vessabhū Buddha. BuA.205.
• Nārisa. See Nārī.
• Nārivaddhana. One of the palaces occupied by Sumangala Buddha in his last lay life. BuA.125; but see Bu.v.22, where other names are given.
• Nārivāhana
• Nārivana. A grove in Himavā where grew flowers shaped like the bodies of women. J.v.152.
• Nārivasabha. One of the palaces occupied by Sikhī Buddha in his last lay life. BuA.201; but Bu (xxi.16) gives other names.
• Naruttama. Seventy three kappas ago there were four kings of this name, all previous births of Tikannapupphiya. Ap.i.195.
• Na-santi Sutta
• Nāsenti Sutta. The five powers of woman   beauty, wealth, kindred, sons and virtue. But if she has no virtue, the possession of other qualities will not prevent her from being cast out. S.iv.247.
• Nāsinnagāma. A village in the Ālisāra district of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.172.
• Natakuvera. A musician of the king of Benares, whose queen was Kākāti. For details see the Kākāti Jataka. J.iii.91ff.; v.424. Natakuvera is identified with the discontented monk with reference to whom the Jataka was preached.
• Natamdalha Vagga. The sixth chapter of the Duka Nipata of the Jataka Commentary. J.ii.139 64.
• Natapubbaka. The name given to two monks who were once mimes. Later, they joined the Order and became arahants. DhA.iv.224,225.
• Nātapuriya. A city in Uttarakuru. D.iii.200.
• Nātaputta, Nāthaputta. See Nigantha Nātaputta.
• Nātha
• Nāthadeva. A name given to Visnu as the protector (nātha) of Ceylon. Cv.c.248; Cv.Trs.ii.243, n.6.
• Nāthaputtiyā. The followers of Nigantha Nātaputta. D.iii.117.
• Natthi putta sama Sutta. Records a conversation between a deva and the Buddha. The deva mentions certain things considered as unique and the Buddha gives a different list. S.i.6.
• Natthi Sutta
• Na-tumhā Sutta. The body is not yours nor is it any others. It is brought about by actions in the past, etc. Thus does the Ariyan disciple comprehend the causal law.' This sutta influenced Pitamalla Thera to join the Order.' (S.2.64, MA. I. 190).
• Na-tumhāka Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Khandha Samyutta.' (S.3.33-42.
• Na-tumhākam Sutta. None of the khandhas belong to you; therefore they should be put away. The putting of them away will be for your profit and welfare. (S.3.33-4).
• Na-tumhākam Sutta. The eye is not yours, nor objects, nor eye-consciousness — even so with the other senses. They should therefore be put away. Such putting away is for your profit and welfare. (S.4.81-2).
• Nava Nandā.- See Nanda (20).
• Nava Sutta
• Nāvā Sutta
• Navagāmapura. A locality in Ceylon mentioned in an account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.137.
• Nāvāgirisa. A village in Ceylon, where Parakkamabāhu I. spent some time before coming to the throne. Cv.lxvi.92.
• Navakammika Bhāradvāja
• Navakammika Sutta. Records the conversation between the Buddha and Navakammika Bhāradvāja (S.i.179).
• Navanavatiya. A city in Uttarakuru (D.iii.201).
• Navapūrana Vagga. The fifteenth chapter of the Salāyatana Samyutta (S.iv.132 42).
• Navaratha. One of the descendants of King Maha-Sammata. Dpv.iii.40.
• Navavamsa.-Probably another name for the Cūlavamsa. It is ascribed to Nava-Mahānāma. Gv.70.
• Navavimalabuddhi. See Vimalabuddhi.
• Navayojanarattha. A district in Rohana. Cv.lxxii.60, 61, 72; see also Cv.Trs,i.324, n. 7.
• Nāvindakī. One of King Eleyya’s guards. He was a follower of Rāmaputta. A.ii.180.
• Nayanāyudha. One of the four most powerful weapons in the world. It belongs to Yama, and seems to be comparable to Siva’s third eye. At a glance from this “weapon” many thousands of kumbhandas are shattered to bits. SNA.i.225.
• Nayanussava. A garden in Pulatthipura, laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.8.
• Nehātakamuni Thera
• Nemi
• Nemindhara (v.l. Nimindhara). One of the seven mountain ranges round Sineru. J.vi.125; Sp.i.119; SNA.ii.443; Dvy.217; Mtu.ii.300.
• Nerañjarā
• Neru
• Nesāda. A brahmin, a previous birth of Sattapaduminiya. Ap.i.254.
• Nesādaka. A hill where the Thera Mahānāma practised meditation. ThagA.i.227.
• Nettāru. A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.189.
• Nettī. A Yakkha chieftain. D.iii.204.
• Nettippakarana
• Nibbāna Sutta
• Nibbedha Sutta. The Buddha tells Udāyi that a monk who cultivates the seven bojjhangas will penetrate and break through lust, hatred and illusion. S.v.87f.
• Nibbedhika Sutta. Four things that lead to penetration: association with the good, listening to the doctrine, reflection, observance of the Dhamma. S.v.419.
• Nibbedhikapariyāya. A comprehensive discourse addressed to the monks on sense desires, their source, their variety, their fruit, and the steps leading thereto. A.iii.410f.; it is often quoted, e.g., UdA.176; DhSA.369.
• Nibbidā Sutta
• Nibbindā. A channel, branching eastwards from the Aciravatī canal of the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.lxxix.53.
• Niccavinodavānava. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.144; lxxvii.76.
• Nicchavitthiaticārinī Sutta. Mahāmoggallāna reports to the Buddha that while descending Gijjhakūta he saw a flayed woman going through the air. The Buddha replies that the woman was an adulteress of Rājagaha. S.ii.259.
• Nicchavorabhi Sutta. Similar to the above; a flayed man, a sheep butcher of Rājagaha. S.ii.256.
• Niceluvana. A grove of mucalinda, trees in Kimbilā. A.iii.247. (The P.T.S. Ed. reads Veluvana.) AA.ii.642.
• Nidāna Samyutta. The twelfth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.ii.1 133.
• Nidāna Sutta
• Nidāna Vagga. The second division of the Samyutta Nikāya. Vol.II. of the P.T.S. Edition.
• Nidānakathā
• Nidānuddesa. One of the five divisions of the Pātimokkha.
• Niddā. An upāsīkā who was born as a vemānika peta. Vv.ii.8; VvA.117.
• Niddasavatthu Sutta
• Niddātandi Sutta. Preached in answer to the question of a deva: sloth, drowsiness and surfeit of food prevent understanding of the Noble Eightfold Path. S.i.7.
• Niddesa
• Niddhamana Sutta. Ten things which are burnt out by the possession of their opposites. A.v.220f.
• Nidhikanda Sutta. One of the suttas of the Khuddakapātha (Khp.p.7). A man buries treasure that he may use it later, but very often he loses it; not so is the treasure laid up by the doing of good deeds.
• Nigaladha. A Damila chief, ruler of Velankundi and ally of Kulasekhara. He was won over by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.138; lxivii.10f.; 89ff.
• Nigamaggāmappāsāda. A monastery in Gangāsiripura, restored by Vijayabāhu IV. Cv.lxxxviii.49.
• Nigamavāsī Tissa
• Niganthā
• Nigantha Nātaputta 
• Nigaya. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara, subdued by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.316; lxxvii.69.
• Niggundipupphiya Thera
• Nighā Sutta. The three pains   of lust, hatred and illusion. For their full comprehension the Noble Eightfold Path must be cultivated. S.v.57.
• Nighandu. A yakkha chieftain, to be invoked by followers of the Buddha when in distress (D.iii.204). He was present at the Mahāsamaya. Ibid., ii.258.
• Nigrodha
• Nigrodha Jātaka (No. 445)
• Nigrodha Kappa Thera
• Nigrodhamāragallaka. A place in Rohana, mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.182.
• Nigrodhamiga Jātaka (No. 12)
• Nigrodhapitthi. A vihāra in Ceylon, the residence of Mahāsīva Thera. MT.555.
• Nigrodhārāma
• Nigrodhasāla. A mound in Rohana, near which Velusumana killed Elāra’s giant Nandasārathī. MT.441.
• Nigrodhasālakhanda.-A village in Ceylon. Ras.ii.46.
• Nigundivālukā tittha. A ford in the Mahāvālukanadī. Cv.lxxii.37.
• Nijjarā Sutta. Ten things, which are brought to nought by the cultivation of their opposites. A.v.215f.
• Nikapennaka padhānaghara. A building on the Cittalapabbata, the residence of Cūlasumana. Vsm.ii.634; see also Ninkaponna, below.
• Nikata
• Nikattha Sutta. Four kinds of people in the world: those with debased bodies and noble minds, with noble bodies and debased minds, with both mind and body noble, with both debased. A.ii.137f.
• Nikkammatissa.- See Ariyagālatissa.
• Nikkhanta Sutta
• Nikumba. The name of a country. Mil.327.
• Nīla
• Nīlagalla
• Nīlagallaka. An officer of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.67.
• Nīlageha. A building (pariccheda: cell ?) erected by Aggabodhi II. for the Thera Jotipāla. Cv.xlii.39.
• Nīlagiri. See Nīlagalla (2), also Rāmanīlagiri.
• Nīlapabbata Vihāra.-A monastery near Halloligāma.
• Nīlapokkharanī. A pond, probably in Anurādhapura. It was one of the places from which clay was taken for the vessels which held the paraphernalia used in royal coronations. MT.307.
• Nilārāma. A monastery in Ceylon to which Udaya I. gave the village of Kālussa. Cv.xlix.16.
• Nīlavāhanā. One of the three rivers crossed by Mahā Kappina on his way from Kukkutavatī to see the Buddha. DhA.ii.120.
• Nīlavāhinī. A channel branching off from the Mālatipuppha sluice in the Parakkamasamudda. Cv.lxxix.42.
• Nīlavālatittha. A locality in Rohanna, identified with the modern Mātara. Cv.lxxv.48; Cv.Trs.ii.48, n.2.
• Nilavāsi. A Thera mentioned as staying at the Kukkutārāma in Pātaliputta.  Vin.i.300.
• Niliya. A Damila brahmin, purohita in the palace. He became the paramour of Anulā and occupied the throne for six months, until she poisoned him. Mhv.xxxiv.24ff.; Dpv.xx.29.
• Nilīya. A hunter. J.iii.330.
• Nimi
• Nimitta Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.82f.
• Nimittasaññaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he was a hermit on the banks of the Candabhāgā, and, seeing a golden deer wandering in the forest, his mind turned to thoughts of the Buddhas. Twenty seven kappas ago he was a king named Araññasatta. Ap.i.261.
• Nimittavyākaranīya Thera. An arahant. Ninety two kappas ago he was an ascetic in Himavā, at the head of fifty four thousand pupils. Having seen the miracles preceding the birth of a Buddha (Tissa?), he was glad at heart and told of it to others (Ap.ii.411f). He is probably identical with Vārana Thera. ThagA.i.353f.
• Nimmala. An officer in the service of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxvi.124.
• Nimmānaratī
• Nimmita. Nineteen kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, all previous births of Vatamsakiya (Abhaya) Thera. Ap.i.174; ThagA.i.201.
• Nimmitapura. A park in Pulatthipura laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.9.
• Nimokkha Sutta. A deva, questions the Buddha on deliverance and detachment and the Buddha answers him. S.i.2.
• Ninka (Nika). A deva who visits the Buddha in the company of several other devas and utters a verse in praise of Nigantha Nātaputta. S.i.65f.
• Ninkapanna padhānaghara. A building on Cittalapabbata, the residence of CūIasumma (VibhA.489). It is probably identical with Nikapennaka (q.v.).
• Nipaññañjalika. See Paññañjalika.
• Nipannapatimāguhā. A cave forming part of the Uttarārāma built in Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.75.
• Nipura. See Sinipura.
• Nirabbuda
• Niraggala. A sacrifice in which alms are given with wide open, boltless doors. ItvA.75.
• Nirāmisa Sutta. See Suddhika Sutta.
• Nirāsa Sutta. Three kinds of persons existing in the world: he who longs not, he who longs, and he who has done with longing. A.i.107f.
• Niraya
• Nirayarūpa Satta. Four kinds of persons which exist in the world. A.ii.71.
• Nirayuppatti Sutta.-A man whose mind is soiled (paduttha) is born after death in hell. Itv.12f.
• Nirodha Sutta
• Nirodha Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Bojjhanga Samyutta. S.v.132ff.
• Nirutti. A work on exegesis, ascribed to Mahā Kaccayāna and divided into two parts: Cūlanirutti and Mahānirutti (Gv.59, 65; Svd.1233f). Atīkā on it exists, the Niruttisāramañjūsā, written by Saddhammaguru. Bode, p.29; Gv.60.
• Niruttipatha Sutta. On three modes of reckoning: matter that has ceased is reckoned as “has been,” not as “is” or “will be”; the same with the other khandhas. S.iii.71f.
• Niruttisāramañjūsā. A tīkā on the Nirutti ; also a tīkā on the Nyāsa by Dāthānāga. Bode, op cit., p.55; Svd.1241.
• Nisabha
• Nisabhā. One of the palaces occupied by Tissa Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.xviii.17.
• Nisanti Sutta. Ānanda tells Sāriputta how a monk who is apt at attha, dhamma, vyañjana, nirutti and pubbāparānusandhi, comes speedily to grasp things and does not forget about that which he has grasped. A.iii.201.
• Nisinnapatimālena. A cave in Pulatthipura, forming part of the Uttarārāra built by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.75.
• Nissaggya. The fourth division of the Pārājikā of the Sutta Vibhanga.
• Nissanka. See Kittinissanka.
• Nissaranīya Sutta. A monk, who is not obsessed by thoughts of lust, ill will, hurt, form and his own body (sakkāya), possesses the five elements of escape. A.iii.245f.
• Nissaya Sutta
• Nissaya Vagga. The first chapter of the Ekādasaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.v.311 28.
• Nissayatthakathā. A Commentary on the Saccasahkhepa by Mahābodhi Thera. P.L.C. 205.
• Nissenidāyaka Thera
• Nissenikkhetta. A district in the Malaya province of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.18.
• Nīta Thera
• Nītha. A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in a nominal list. M.iii.69; ApA.106.
• Nitthā Sutta. Five conditions which are consummated in this life and five in the next. A.v.119f.
• Nitthulavitthika. A village in the district of Giri in Ceylon, the birthplace of Gothaimbara (Mhv.xxiii.49). It is probably identical with the village (Nitthulavetthi) given by Pottakuttha for the Mātambiya padhānaghara. Cv.xlvi.20.
• Nivāpa Sutta. Preached at Jetavana ; a parable of Māra as trapper. He sets up various gins and snares to trap the unwary, and many are caught in them. It is, however, possible to find a retreat, where Māra and his train cannot penetrate; and the Buddha proceeds to explain how this may be found. M.i.150ff.
• Nīvarana Vagga
• Nīvaranāni Sutta. The five nīvaranas: sensual desire, malevolence, sloth and torpor, excitement and flurry, and doubt and wavering. S.v.60.
• Nīvaranapahāna Vagga. The second chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.3ff.
• Nivattacetiya. A cetiya near the Kadamba nadī, built on the spot where Mahinda, at Devānampiyatissa’s invitation, turned back on the way to Missakapabbata. Mhv.xv.10.
• Nivattagiri. The name of the city built on the spot where Kandula, the elephant, turned back in order to capture Mahelanagara. MT.480.
• Niyama. A district in South India. Cv.lxxvii.15, 101.
• Niyarāya. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.79.
• Niyasa. See Yasa.
• Niyelatissārāma. A vihāra in Ceylon, built by king Kanitthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
• Niyyanti uyyāna. A park, probably near Sīhagiri, where Kassapa I. built a vihāra for the Dhammarucikas. Cv.xxxix.14.
• Nyāsa. A grammatical treatise by Vimalabuddhi. It is also called Mukhamattadīpanī. Vimalabuddhi Thera also wrote a glossary on it. Gv.72; Bode, op. cit., 21; see also Svd.1240.