Pali Proper Names — S

• Suka Jātaka (No. 255)
• Sūka Sutta
• Sūkam Jātaka (No. 153)
• Sūkarabhātu
• Sūkaraggāma. A fortress in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the wars of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.134.
• Sūkaraggāmavāpi. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.46.
• Sūkarakhata Sutta
• Sūkarakhatalena
• Sūkarālibheripāsāna. A place in Rohana mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.98, 146; see also Cv.ii.53, n.4.
• Sūkaranījjhara. A dyke constructed by Parakkamabāhu I. at the junction of the rivers Sankhavaddhamānaka and Kumbhīlavāna. A canal was carried from there to the Mahāgallaka-tank. Cv.lxviii.33f.
• Sūkarapeta
• Sūkarapotika Vatthu.-The story of Ubbarī.
• Sūkarārāma. A monastery near Dohalapabbata, where a minister of Kittisirirājasīha built an image house and Suvannagāma erected an uposatha hall. Cv.c.295.
• Sūkaratittha. A place, probably in the north of Ceylon, where the Damilas Māgha and Jayabāhu set up fortifications. Cv.lxxxiii.18.
• Sukataveliya Thera. An arahant. In the time of Sikhī Buddha he was a garland maker, named Asita, and one day, while on his way with a garland to the king, he met the Buddha and offered it to him. Fifty-two kappas ago he was a king named Dvebhāra. Ap.i.217.
• Sukha
• Sukha Vagga, Sutta
• Sukhadukkhī Sutta. The self is both bliss and suffering, without sickness, after death. S.iii.220.
• Sukhagirigāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiv.164.
• Sukhatta Sutta
• Sukhavihāri Jātaka (No. 10)
• Sukhāya Sutta. He who sees the world as ill, false and perishable, frees himself from it. S.iv.204.
• Sukhena Sutta. Moggallāna explains to the monks how the Buddha helped him to perfect the third jhāna. S.iv.264.
• Sukhindriya, or Uppati Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Indriya Samyutta. S.v.207-16.
• Sukhita Sutta. Incalculable is samsāra; everyone has enjoyed prosperity in the course of his wanderings. S.ii.186.
• Sukhita. See Surakkhita.
• Sukhitta. See Sumitta.
• Sukhuma Sutta. A monk who can penetrate through the subtility of body, feeling, perception, and of the Sankhāras, has overcome Māra. A.ii.17.
• Sukkā
• Sukka Sutta. In a man whose heart is possessed by gains, favours and flatteries, even the bright conditions (sutkkā) are extirpated. S.ii.240.
• Sukkapakkhūposatha. The name of the festival held in honour of Mahinda on the eighth day of the bright half of the month of Assayuja, the day of his death. Mhv.xx.33; MT. 418.
• Sukkodana, Sukkhodana. A Sākiyan prince, son of Sihahanu and paternal uncle of Gotama Buddha (Mhv.ii.20; see SNA.i.357). Mahānāma and Anuruddha were his sons. MA.i.289.
• Sulakkhanā. Wife of Añjanasakka and mother of Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī. Ap.ii.538 (vs. 115); but see Mhv.ii.18, where Añjana’s wife is called Yasodharā. This may have been another wife.
• Sulasā
• Suleyyā. A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.260.
• Sumā. An eminent Therī of India who came over to Anurādhapura in the time of Devānampiyatissa and taught the Vinaya there. Dpv.xviii.24.
• Sumāgadhā (Sumāgavā)
• Sumamapabbata. A monastic building in Kelivāta, erected by Aggabodhi I. Cv.xlii.19.
• Suman Sutta.-See Sumanarajakumari Sutta.
• Sumana
• Sumanā
• Sumanā Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.32-44.
• Sumanadāmadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he stood in front of Siddhattha Buddha, with a garland of sumana flowers in his hand to honour him. Ap.i.293.
• Sumanadeva
• Sumanadevī
• Sumanagalla. A district in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiv.123.
• Sumanagiri-vihāra. See Samantakūta.
• Sumanakūtla.  See Samantakūta.
• Sumanā-rājakumārī Sutta
• Sumanatālavantiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he gave to Siddhattha Buddha a fan (tālavanta) covered with jasmine-flowers (Ap.i.293 = Ap.ii.408). See also Sātimattika. ThagA.i.359.
• Sumanavāpigāma. A village in Ceylon, four yojanas to the south east of Anurādhapura. Precious stones appeared there, when Dutthagāmanī wished to build the Mahā Thūpa. Mhv.xxviii.18.
• Sumanāveliya Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he placed a bunch of sumana-flowers in front of the seat of Vessabhū Buddha. After death he was born in the Nimmanaratī-world; eleven kappas ago he was a king named Sahassāra. Ap.i.264.
• Sumanavījaniya Thera. An arahant (Ap.ii.415), evidently identical with Isidinna. ThagA.i.313.
• Sumangala
• Sumangala Jātaka (No. 420)
• Sumangalamātā Therī
• Sumangala-parivena. A monastery, probably in Anurādhapura at the time of Buddhaghosa. Dāthanāga Thera lived there.
• Sumangalappasādanī. A tīkā on the Khuddasikkhā, written by Vācissara of Ceylon at the request of. Sumangala. Gv.62, 71; Svd.1227
• Sumangalavilāsinī. Buddhaghosa’s Commentary of the Dīgha Nikāya (GV.59). It was written at the request of Dāthanāga Thera, incumbent of the Sumangala-parivena. It is quoted in the Manorathapūranī. E.g., AA.i.407.
• Sumbha
• Sumedha
• Sumedhā
• Sumedhakathā. The first section of the Jātaka Commentary, dealing with Sumedha’s meeting with Dīpankara Buddha. J.i.2-28.
• Sumedhayasa. A king of twenty nine kappas ago, a former birth of Rāmaneyya Thera. ThagA.i.121.
• Sumeghaghana. A king of twenty nine kappas ago; a previous birth of Minela-(Vinela)pupphiya Thera. Ap.i.204.
• Sumekhala. A king whose country was destroyed because he ill treated holy men. ThagA.i.368.
• Sumekhali. A king of fifty four kappas ago, a former birth of Bilālidāyaka Thera. ThagA.i.145.
• Sumitta
• Sumittā
• Sumittārāma. The monastery in which Vipassī Buddha died. Bu.xx.36.
• Summa Thera. An incumbent of Dīpavihāra in Ceylon. He was evidently an eminent commentator, and is quoted by Buddhaghosa. Tipitaka-Cūlanāga was his pupil. MA.i.126; AA.ii.845.
• Sumsumāra Jātaka (No. 208)
• Sumsumāragiri
• Sumucalindasara. A lake (J.vi.582), evidently identical with Mucalinda.
• Sumukha
• Sunāga
• Sunakha Jātaka (No. 242)
• Sunakha. One of the Mahānirayas. Nālikīra was born there. J.v.145.
• Sunakkhatta
• Sunakkhatta Sutta
• Sunāma. A minister of Angati, king of Mithilā. See the Mahānāradakassapa Jātaka. He is identified with Bhaddaji. J.vi.255.
• Sunanda
• Sunandā
• Sunandaka. The residence of an Ajīvaka who gave grass for his seat to Kondañña Buddha. BuA.108.
• Sunandārāma 1. A monastery in which Dīpankara Buddha died. BuA.68.
• Sunandārāma 2. A monastery in which Tissa Buddha died. BuA.192; but Bu.xviii.28 calls it Nandārāma.
• Sunandavatī. A city where Sumana Buddha performed the Yamakapātihāriya (BuA.128). King Uggata built there, for Sobhita Buddha, a vihāra named Surinda (BuA.139). In this city Tissa Buddha died in the Sunandārāma (BuA.192).
• Sunāparanta
• Sunārī. A Kālinga princess; see Sundarī.
• Sundara
• SundarĀnanda. See Nanda.
• Sundarapabbata. See Subhagiri.
• Sundarapandu. A Damila chief of South India. An ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.126,174.
• Sundarasamudda Thera
• Sundarī
• Sundarikā
• Sundarika Sutta. Describes the meeting between the Buddha and Sundarika-Bhāradvāja. S.i.167f.
• Sundarika-Bhāradvāja
• Sundarika-Bhāradvāja Sutta. Describes the meeting between the Buddha and Sundarika-Bhāradvāja. The Commentary calls it the Pūralāsa Sutta. SN. p.79f; SNA.ii.400.
• Sundarī-Nandā
• Sunela. A king of one hundred and twenty three kappas ago, a former birth of Mutthipūjaka Thera. Ap.i.201.
• Sunetta
• Sunettā. A brahmin maiden of Asadisagāma, who gave a meal of milk rice to Siddhattha Buddha. BuA.185.
• Sunhāta-parivena. A parivena built by Devānampiyatissa on the bank of the bathing tank of Mahinda. Mhv.xv.207.
• Suniddā. See Niddā.
• Sunidha
• Sunikkhamma. Sixty seven kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, previous births of Sattāhapabbajita Thera. Ap.i.242.
• Sunimmita. A devaputta, king of the Nimmānarati world (J.i.81; S.iv.280; A.iv.243; cf. Dvy.140). Visākhā became his wife, after her birth among the Nimmānarati-devā. VvA.189.
• Sunisā-vimāna-vatthu. The story of a woman of Sāvatthi. She had no family, and one day, seeing an arahant there begging for alms, she gave him a piece of cake (pūvabhāgam). After death she was born in Tāvatimsa, where Moggallāna learnt her story. Vv.i.13; VvA.61.
• Sunīta Thera
• Suñña Sutta. The Buddha explains to Ānanda that the world ifs void of “self” and of what belongs to “self.” S.iv.54.
• Suññakathā. The tenth chapter of the Yuganandha Vagga of the Patisambhidā-Magga. Ps.ii.177-84.
• Suññatā Sutta. See Cūlasuññatā Sutta and Mahāsuññatā Sutta.
• Suññatā Vagga. The thirteenth section of the Majjhima Nikāya, containing suttas 121-130. M.iii.104ff.
• Supabbā.  An upāsikā of Rājagaha. She held the view that one who offered herself for sexual intercourse gave the supreme gift. Vin.iii.39.
• Supajjalita. Twenty seven kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, previous births of Citapūjaka Thera. Ap.i.244.
• Supanna Samyutta. The thirtieth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.246-9.
• Supanna. See Garuda.
• Supāricariya
• Supassa. The name of Mount Vepulla in the time of Kassapa Buddha (v.l. Suphassa). The people of Rājagaha at that time were called Suppiyā. S.ii.192.
• Supatittha-cetiya. A shrine near the Latthivanuyyāna in Rājagaha. Vin.i.35.
• Supatitthita. A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a nominal list. M.iii.70.
• Supatta
• Supatta Jātaka (No. 292)
• Suphassā 1. A female crow, wife of Supatta. She is identified with Rāhulamātā. J.ii.436.
• Suphassā 2. Mother of Siddhattha Buddha. J.i.40; Bu.xvii.13.
• Suphassā 3. A celestial musician or a musical instrument. VvA.94.
• Suphassa. See Supassa above.
• Supina Sutta. The five great dreams which the Buddha had on the night before his Enlightenment. A.iii.240f.; they are referred to J.i.69.
• Suppabuddha
• Suppādevī.-Mother of Sīhabāhu and Sīhasīvali. MT.243f.
• Suppagedha. A Yakkha, to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. D.iii.205.
• Suppala. One of the palaces of Siddhattha Buddha before his renunciation. Bu.xvii.14.
• Suppāra, Suppāraka
• Suppāraka Jātaka (No. 463)
• Supparikā. The name of a tribe. Ap.ii.369 (vs.19).
• Suppasanna. A king of eight kappas ago, a previous birth of Rattipupphiya Thera. Ap.i.188.
• Suppati Sutta
• Suppatīta. King of Anoma or Anupama; father of Vessabhū Buddha. J.i.42; Bu.xxxii.18; D.ii.7.
• Suppatitthita
• Suppavāsā Koliyadhītā
• Suppavāsā Sutta
• Suppiya
• Suppiyā
• Supubbanha Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No.52) to the Pubbanha Sutta (q.v.).
• Suputakapūjaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he saw Vipassī Buddha begging for alms and gave him a packet of salt (? lonasuputaka). Ap.i.284.
• Sura. A hunter, who discovered fermented liquor. See the Kumbha Jātaka.
• Sūra. A messenger of Kuvera (q.v.). D.iii.201.
• Sūra-Ambattha
• Sūra-ambavana. A place in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the wars of Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxx.87). It evidently formed part of Ambavana, the district round the Ambanganga. Cv.Trs.i.294, n.3.
• Surabhi. A Pacceka Buddha whom the Bodhisatta (in his birth as Munāli) insulted. Ap.i.299; UdA.264.
• Sūradaddara. A Nāga king of Daddarapabbata. See the Daddara Jātaka. He was the father of Mahādaddara.
• Sūradeva.  A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.13.
• Surādha Sutta. The Buddha teaches Surādha (q.v.) how to get rid of all idea of “I” and “mine,” so that the mind may go beyond the ways of conceit and be utterly liberated. S.iii.80f.
• Surādha Thera
• Surādhā. An aggasāvikā of Paduma Buddha. Bu.ix.22.
• Suragiri. A palace occupied by Atthadassī Buddha before his renunciation. Bu.xv.15.
• Surakitti. A king of Burma in the fifteenth century. He built a four storeyed vihāra for Tipitakālankāra Thera. Bode, op. cit., 53.
• Surakkhita. An aggasāvaka of Phussa Buddha; he was a prince of Kannakujja. J.i.41; BuA.193; but Bu.xix. calls him Sukhita.
• Surāma 1. A palace occupied by Kondañña Buddha before his renunciation. BuA.107; but see Bu.iii.26.
• Surāmā 1. An aggasāvikā of Siddhattha Buddha. J.i.40; Bu.xvii.19.
• Surāmā 2. An aggasāvikā of Sumedha Buddha. J.i.38; Bu.xii.24.
• Surāma 2. See Suramma.
• Suramāna. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.36.
• Suramma. A seven storeyed palace, occupied by Gotama Buddha before his Renunciation. BuA.230; Bu.xxvi.14 calls it Surāma.
• Surammā. One of the chief lay women supporters of Siddhattha Buddha. Bu.xvii.70.
• Suramukha. A noble steed, belonging to Ekarāja. J.vi.135.
• Sūranimmila.-One of the ten warriors of Dutthagāmanī. For details see Mhv.xxiii.19f. According to the Rasavāhinī (ii.71) he was so called because he drank a large quantity of toddy before the attack on Vijitapura.
• Surāpāna Jātaka (No. 81)
• Sūra-rājā. A messenger of Kuvera (q.v.). DA.iii.967.
• Surasena
• Sūrasena 1. See Surasena.
• Sūrasena 2. Another name for Dhanañjaya Korabba. J.vi.280, 281.
• Sūratissa
• Surattha
• Sūravāmagotta. A son of Ekarāja and step brother of Candakumāra. He is identified with Mahā Kassapa (J.vi.157). See Khandahāla Jātaka.
• Surāvinicchaya. A work by Mahāparakkama Thera of Taungu (Ketumatī) on the evil effects of intoxicants. Sās., p.81; Bode, op. cit., 46.
• Surindavatī. A city in the time of Konāgamana Buddha. In a park in the city Konāgamana preached to Bhīyasa and Uttara, who later became his chief disciples. BuA.215.
• Surinda-vihāra. A monastery built in Sunandavatī by King Uggata for Sobhita Buddha. BuA.138.
• Suriya
• Suriya Sutta
• Suriyadeva. The fourth son of Devagabbhā; one of the Andhakavenhudāsaputtā. J.iv.8.
• Suriyagabbha. A mountain range on the way to Gandhamādana. SNA.i.66.
• Suriyagutta
• Suriyakumāra
• Suriyapassapabbita. One of the seven mountain ranges surrounding Chaddantadaha. J.v.138.
• Suriyapeyyāla. A series of discourses based on the sun. S.v.29.
• Suriyavaccasā
• Suriyavatī. A city in which, at the foot of a campaka-tree, Sikhī Buddha performed the Yamakapātihāriya. BuA.202.
• Suriyopama Sutta
• Suruci
• Suruci Jātaka (No. 489)
• Surullagāma. A village in Ceylon, mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.139.
• Surundhana. A city in Kāsī; an old name for Benares. J.iv.104, 119.
• Susaddasiddhi. Another name for the Sāratthavilāsini  by Sangharakkhita of Ceylon; it is a tīkā on the Moggallānapañijikā. P.L.C. 200.
• Susammuttha Sutta. A deva tells the Buddha that followers of other creeds have their vision fully blurred. S.i.4.
• Susārada Thera
• Susīma
• Susīmā
• Susīma Jātaka (No. 163)
• Susīma Sutta
• Susīmadevī. Wife of Amitodana. Her daughter, Bhaddākaccānā, became queen of Panduvāsudeva. MT.275.
• Sussondī Jātaka (No. 360)
• Sussondī. Wife of Tamba, king of Benares. See the Sussondī Jātaka.
• Susuddha. A king of thirty two kappas ago, a previous birth of Pabbhāradāyaka Thera. Ap.i.252.
• Susunāga
• Suta Brahmadatta
• Sutanā
• Sutana. The Bodhisatta born as a poor householder. See the Sutano Jātaka.
• Sutano Jātaka (No. 398)
• Sutanu Sutta. Anuruddha explains to some monks who visit him on the banks of the Sutanu River that he gained iddhi power by cultivating the four satipatthānas. S.v.297f.
• Sutanū, Sutanā. Wife of Vipassī Buddha, in his last lay life (Bu.xx.25). She was also called Sudassanā (BuA.195). See Sudhanā.
• Sutanu. A stream at Sāvatthi. Anuruddha is mentioned as having stayed near by. S.v.297.
• Sutasoma 1. The Bodhisatta born as king of Benares. See the Cullasutasoma Jātaka.
• Sutasoma 2. The Bodhisatta, born as king of Indapatta. See the Mahāsutasoma Jātaka.
• Sutasoma Jātaka. See Cullasutasoma Jātaka and Mahāsutasoma Jātaka.
• Sutavā
• Sūtighara cetiya. A thūpa, one hundred and twenty cubits in height, in Punkhagāma, erected by Parakkamabāhu I. on the site of the house of his birth. Cv.lxxix.61.
• Sutta Nipāta
• Sutta Pitaka, or Suttantapitaka
• Sutta. One of the nine divisions of the Tipitaka, according to matter (anga). DA.i.23; Gv.57, etc.
• Suttandara. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.181.
• Suttaniddesa
• Suttasangaha
• Suttavādā. A heretical sect, a branch of the Sankantikas. Dpv.v.48; Mhv.v.9; Points of Controversy, pp. 3, 5.
• Suttavibhanga. See Vibhanga (2).
• Suvaca Sutta
• Suvaccha
• Suvannabhūmi
• Suvannabimbohaniya Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he gave as gift a bed and a cushion. Sixty three kappas ago he was a king named Asama. Ap.i.234.
• Suvannadonī. A village in the Malaya district of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.11.
• Suvannagāma. A minister of Kittisirirājasīha. He built an uposatha-hall in the Sūkara-vihāra. Cv.c.296.
• Suvannagiritāla. A mountain five yojanas from Jetuttara. The river Kontimāra was five leagues further away. J.vi.514.
• Suvannagūha 1. A cave in Cittakūtapabbata: it was the abode of the golden geese. J.iii.208; v.237, 469; vi.50.
• Suvannagūha 2. One of the three caves in Nandamūla Pabbhāra. SNA.i.66.
• Suvannahamsa Jātaka (No. 136)
• Suvannahāra (Suvannabhāra). A palace occupied by Phussa Buddha before his renunciation. Bu.xix.15.
• Suvannakakkata Jātaka (No. 389)
• Suvannakāra Sutta. A monk developing the higher consciousness should be like a goldsmith working with sterling gold. The analogous details are given of both processes. A.i.257f.
• Suvannakūta. The name of the Cetiyapabbata (Missakapabbata) in the time of Konāgamana Buddha. Sp.i.87, etc.; but Mhv.xv.96 calls it Sumanakūta
• Suvannakūti. A building in the Dakkhinagiri-vihāra, where Appihāsāmanera lived. MT. 552.
• Suvannamalaya. A place in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.62, 65, 66.
• Suvannamāli. A name for the Mahā Thūpa (q.v.).
• Suvannamiga Jātaka (No. 359)
• Suvannapabbata. A mountain in Himavā. J.i.50, 55; SNA.i.358.
• Suvannapālī
• Suvannapassapabbata. One of the seven mountain ranges on the way to Gandhamādana (SNA.i.66). It was the seventh range surrounding the Chaddantadaha. J.v.38, etc.
• Suvannapindatissa. The name by which Sūratissa was known before his accession. Mhv.xxi.9.
• Suvannapupphiya Thera. An arahant, evidently identical with Vimalakondañña (q.v.). Ap.i.150; ThagA.i.146.
• Suvannasāma. The Bodhisatta born as the son of Dukūlaka and Pārikā. See the Sāma Jātaka.
• Suvannatilakā
• Suvannatissa. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.32; see Cv.Trs.ii.119, n.2.
• Suvannatthambba. A ford considered dangerous on the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.xcvi.10.
• Suvanna-Vimāna Vatthu
• Suvannavīthi. A street in Tāvatimsa, sixty leagues in length. J.v.386.
• Suvidehā
• Suvīra
• Suvīraka.-The horse of Bodhirājakumarī (q.v.)
• Suyāma
• Suyāna. Seventy-seven kappas ago there were eight kings of this name, previous births of Pānadhidāyaka Thera. Ap.i.209.
• Suyasā. A palace occupied by Paduma Buddha before his renunciation. Bu.ix.17; but see BuA.146.