Pali Proper Names — U
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Upacālā Sutta.-The story of Māra’s unsuccessful attempt to cause the therī Upacālā to sin. S.i.133.
Upādāna-paritassanā Sutta.-Two discourses on how grasping and worry arise and how they can be got rid of. S.iii.15-18.
Upādāna-parivatta Sutta.-On the five khandhas as grasping and the series of four truths in regard to each khandha — i.e., the khandha itself, its arising, its cessation And the way thereto. He who fully understands these is fully liberated. S.iii.58ff.
Upādāya Sutta.-Personal weal and woe are dependent on the eye, ear, etc. But these are impermanent, woeful, of a nature to change. Therefore should one not lust for them. S.iv.85f.
Upadduta Sutta.-Everything in the world is oppressed. S.iv.29.
Upadhi.-A Pacceka Buddha, whose name occurs in a list of names. ApA.i.107.
Upāgatabhāsaniya Thera.-An arahant. In the time of Vipassī Buddha he was a Rakkhasa in a lake in Himavā. Once the Buddha visited this sprite who paid homage to him. Ap.i.233.
Upāhana Vagga.-The ninth section of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.ii.221-42.
Upajjhāya.-A gatekeeper of Mandavya, summoned by him to drive out Mātanga. J.iv.382.
Upajjhāyavatta-bhānavāra.-The thirtieth chapter of the first Khandaka of the Mahāvagga.
Upajotiya.-One of the door-keepers summoned by Mandavya to turn Mātanga out of his house. J.iv.382.
Upaka Sutta.-Records the visit paid to the Buddha by Upaka Mandakāputta. A.ii.181f.
Upakāla 1.-A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a list of Pacceka Buddhas. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
Upakāla 2.-A Niraya, also the name of the tortures in the same Niraya. J.vi.248.
Upakamsa.-Son of Mahākamsa, king of Asitañjana and brother of Kamsa. When Kamsa became king, Upakamsa was his viceroy. Upakamsa was killed by a disc thrown by Vāsudeva, son of Devagabbhā. J.iv.79-82.
Upakañcana.-A brahmin, brother of the Bodhisatta Mahākañcana. Their story is related in the Bhisa Jātaka. J.iv.305ff.
Upāli Gāthā.-The stanzas in which Upāli-Gahapati uttered the Buddha’s praises when Nātaputta asked him what kind of man was his new-found teacher (M.i.386f). These verses are often quoted; they contain one hundred epithets as applied to the Buddha (Sp.i.257).
Upāli Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Dasaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It contains records of various discussions between Upāli (1) and the Buddha and two between Ānanda and the Buddha, regarding matters connected with the Vinaya. A.v.70-7.
Upāli-pañcaka.-One of the chapters of the Parivāra, containing various questions asked by Upāli (1) regarding Vinaya rules and the Buddha’s explanations of the same. Vin.v.180-206.
Upāli-pucchā-bhānavāra.-The sixth chapter of the ninth Khandhaka of the Mahāvagga. Vin.i.322-8.
Upamañña.-The family (gotta) to which Pokkharasāti belonged. He was, therefore, called Opamañña. M.ii.200; MA.ii.804.
Upanāhī Sutta.-Preached in answer to the questions of Anuruddha. The five qualities, including grudging, which lead a woman to be reborn in purgatory. S.iv.241.
Upananda-Sākyaputta-Thera-Vatthu.-A group of stories concerning the greediness and rapacity of Upananda Sākyaputta. DhA.iii.139ff; cf. J.iii.332ff.
Upanemi.-A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in nominal lists. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
Upaneyya Sutta.-A deva visits the Buddha at Jetavana and utters a stanza in which he says that life is short, and one should accumulate merit in order to obtain bliss. The Buddha replies that all who fear death should aspire to the final peace. S.i.2.
Upanisinna Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Rādha Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.200ff.
Upanita.-A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. M.iii.70.
Uparāmā.-One of the two chief women disciples of Paduma Buddha (J.i.36). The Buddhavamsa, however, gives their names as Rādhā and Surādhā.
Uparigangā.-See Gangā.
Uparimandakamāla.-A vihāra (?) in Ceylon, the residence of Mahārakkhita Thera (q.v.). J.vi.30.
Uparimandalaka-malaya.-A vihāra (?) in Ceylon, the residence of Mahāsangharakkhita Thera. J.iv.490.
Uparuci.-A king of thirty-eight kappas ago; a previous birth of Sucintita Thera (Ap.i.134).
Upāsabha.-Name of a Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.69; MA.ii.890; ApA.i.106.
Upāsakacandāla and Upāsakaratana Suttas.-The Sutta Sangaha divides into two Suttas (Nos. 9 and 10) the Sutta which appears in the Anguttara, as one Sutta, under the name of Candāla Sutta (q.v.).
Upasālā.-According to the Buddhavamsa Commentary (194), Sālā and Upasālā were the two chief women disciples of Phussa Buddha. The Buddhavamsa (xix.20), however, calls them Cālā and Upacālā.
Upasāla.-Younger brother of Paduma Buddha and, later, one of his two chief disciples. Bu.ix.21; BuA.147; J.i.36.
Upasama Sutta.-The Buddha explains to a monk, in answer to a question, how one may become perfect in the indriyas. S.v.202. For the title see KS, v.178, n.3.
Upasamā Therī
Upasampadā Sutta.-On the qualities which a monk should possess in order to admit others to the Order. A.v.72.
Upasenā.-One of the chief women supporters of Tissa Buddha. Bu.xviii.23.
Upasenī.-Daughter of Vasavatti, king of Pupphavatī and sister of Candakumāra. She narrowly escaped death when the king, on the advice of his chaplain, wished to offer human sacrifices. The story is told in the Khandahāla Jātaka. J.vi.134.
Upasīdarī.-A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. M.iii.70.
Upasiri 1.-One of the palaces occupied by Anomadassī Buddha in his last lay-life. Bu.viii.18.
Upasiri 2.-A palace similarly occupied by Sujāta Buddha. Bu.xiii.21.
Upasonā.-One of the two chief women disciples of Sumana Buddha. Bu.v.27; J.i.24.
Upassattha Sutta.-Everything is oppressed: eye, ear, etc. S.iv.29.
Upassayadāyaka-vimāna.-The abode of a pious man who was born in Tāvatimsa as a result of having given a night’s shelter to a holy monk. The vimāna was of gold and was twelve yojanas in height. Vv.64; VvA.291f.
Upasumbha.-An image of the Buddha placed in the Bahumangala-cetiya at Anurādhapura. King Dhātusena had a diadem of rays made for the statue. Cv.xxxviii.66.
Upatapassī Thera.-Author of the Vuttamālā. He was incumbent of the Gatārā Parivena and was the nephew of Sarasigāmamūla Mahāsāmi. P.L.C.253f.
Upatissa Sutta. Preached by Sāriputta. He tells the monks that there is nothing in the whole world, a change in which would cause him sorrow. Not even a change regarding the Buddha, be emphasises, in answer to a question by Ānanda. S.ii.274f.
Upatissā.-One of the two chief women-disciples of Kondañña Buddha. Bu.iii.31; J.i.30.
Upatthāyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth be provided Siddhattha Buddha with a personal attendant (upatthāka). Fifty-seven kappas ago he was born as a king, named Balasena. Ap.i.241.
Upavāla.-See Uvāla.
Upaya Sutta (wrongly called Upāya).-Attachment (upaya) is bondage, aloofness is freedom. With the abandonment of lust, lust’s foothold is cut off and, thereby, rebirth, etc., is destroyed. S.iii.53.
Upāya Sutta.-See Upaya Sutta.
Upayanti Sutta.-When the ocean rises with the tide, the rivers, their tributaries, the mountain lakes and tarns, all rise as a result. Likewise rising ignorance makes, in turn, becoming, birth and decay and death to rise and increase. S.ii.118f.
Upekkhaka Sutta.-Moggallāna tells the monks how he entered in and abode in the fourth jhāna. S.iv.265f.
Uposatha Vagga.-The fifth chapter of -the Atthaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya, containing suttas on the Uposatha, among other things. A.iv.248-73.
Uposathāgāra.-A building connected with the Thūpārāma. It was built by Bhātikābhaya and enlarged by Ānanda gāmani-Abhayi. Mhv.xxxiv.39; xxxv.3; MT.629, 639.
Uposathakhanda.-The second section of the Bhūridatta Jātaka. J.vi.168-70.
Uposathakhandhaka.-The second chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.i.101-36.
Uposatha-vimāna.-See Uposathā.
Uposatha-vinicchaya.-A Vinaya treatise, written in Burma. Bode, op. cit., 44.
Uppāda Samyutta.-The twenty-sixth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.228-31.
Uppādena Sutta (2).-The uprising of the six sense objects — forms, sounds, etc. — is the uprising of Ill, the persisting of disease, the manifestation of decay and death. The cessation of the former leads to the disappearance of the latter. S.iv.14.
Uppādetabba Sutta.-On six states which a person holding right views will never reach. A.iii.438.
Uppajjanti Sutta.-On the power of earnestness (appamāda). A.i.11.
Uppalā.-One of the chief women supporters of Anomadassī Buddha. Bu.viii.24.
Uppalavannā Sutta.-Records a conversation between Uppalavannā and Māra (S.i.131f). The ideas are the same as those contained in the verses found in the Therīgāthā (vv.230-5) but the wording is somewhat different.
Uppalavāpī.-A village in Ceylon where king Kutakanna spent some time. There he invited the thera Cūlasudhamma and made him live at the Mālārāma Vihāra. VibhA.452.
Uppanna (or Uppāda) Sutta.-Two suttas which state that the seven bojjhangas do not arise without the manifestation of a Tathāgata. S.v.77.
Uppātasanti.-A Pāli work written by an unknown thera of Laos in the sixteenth century. It seems to have dealt with rites or charms for averting evil omens or public calamities. Bode, op. cit., 47, and n.5.
Uppatha Sutta.-Questions asked by a deva and the Buddha’s answers to them. Lust is the road that leads astray, life perishes both night and day, women are they that stain celibacy, the higher life cleanses without bathing. S.i.38.
Uppati Vagga.-See Sukhindriya Vagga.
Uraga.-A mountain near Himavā. In a previous birth, Gosāla Thera saw there a rag-robe hanging, to which he paid homage (v.l. Udaka and Udangana). ThagA.i.79; Ap.ii.434.
Ūriyeri.-A locality in South India. In it was a fortress which was besieged by Lankāpura and Jagadvijaya. Cv.lxxvii.58, 62.
Urubuddharakkhita.-An Elder who was present at the foundation ceremony of the Mahāthūpa. He came from the Mahāvana in Vesāli, with eighteen thousand monks. Mhv.xxix.33.
Urucetiya.-See Mahāthūpa.
Urudhammarakkhita.-A thera who came from the Ghositārāma in Kosambī, with thirty thousand monks, to be present at the foundation ceremony of the Mahāthūpa. Mhv.xxix.34.
Urusangharakkhita.-An Elder who came with forty thousand monks from the Dakkhināgiri in Ujjeni, to be present at the Mahāthūpa foundation ceremony (Mhv.xxix.35).
Uruvela.-One of the chief lay supporters of Sumedha Buddha. Bu.xii.25.
Uruvela-pātihāriya-bhānavāra.-The twenty-first chapter of the first Khandhaka of the Mahāvagga in the Vinaya Pitaka.
Uruvelapattana.-See Uruvela (2).
Uruvela-vihāra.-A vihāra in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. (Mhv.lx.59). It may have been in the city called Devanagara (Cv.Trs.i.220, n.2).
Uruvellā.-One of the two chief women disciples of Kassapa Buddha. J.i.43; Bu.xxv.40.
Usabhakkhandha.-Son of Dīpankara (Bu.ii.209; Mbv.4). See also Samavattakkhandha.
Usabhamukha.-One of the four channels leading out of the Anotatta lake. The river which flows out of this channel is called Usabhamukhanadī, and cattle are abundant on its banks. SnA.ii.438; UdA.301.
Usinnara.-See Usīnara.
Usīraddhaja.-A mountain range forming the northern boundary of Majjhimadesa. Vin.i.197; DA.i.173; J.i.49; KhA.133; MA.i.397, etc.
Ussānavitthi.-A village in Ceylon, given by King Udaya I, for the maintenance of the pāsāda in the Pucchārāma-vihāra. It was a poor village, but the king made it rich. Cv.xlix.28.
Ussolhi Sutta.-Exertion (ussolhi) must be made by those who see not decay and death as they really are. S.ii.132.
Usukāraniya Sutta.-Describes one of the petas of Gijjhakūta, seen by Moggallāna, while in the company of Lakkhana. The peta had been a judge in Rājagaha and had been cruel to criminals. The peta’s body bristled with arrows. S.ii.257.
Uttamadevī Vihāra.-A monastery to the east of Anurādhapura. UdA.158; MA.i.471.
Uttaracūlabhājaniya.-Mentioned in the Vibhanga Commentary. (p.308).
Uttaradhātusena-vihāra.-Built by King Dhatusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
Uttaragāma.-A village in Ceylon, the residence of Pingala-Buddharakkhita Thera. There were one hundred families living there and the Elder had, at some time or other, entered into samāpatti at the door of each of their houses, while waiting for alms. MA.ii.978.
Uttarahimavanta.-See Himavā.
Uttarajīva.-A monk of Pagan, who came to the Mahāvihāra in Ceylon in A.D. 1154. He was accompanied by Chapatti and brought with him a copy of the Saddanīti which had just been written by Aggavamsa. P.L.C. 185.
Uttarakā.-A village of the Bumus. The Buddha once stayed there and Sunakkhatta was in his company. At that time Korakkhattiya was also staying there. D.iii.6.
Uttarakumāra.-The Bodhisatta. See Uttara (16).
Uttarakurukā.-The inhabitants of Uttarakuru. A.iv.396.
Uttarāla.-A tank repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.47.
Uttarālha.-A dwelling-house (parivena) which probably belonged to the Abhayagiri-vihāra. In it Sena I., while he was yet Mahādipāda, built cells which bore his name (Cv.l.77). Sena II. built a pāsāda there (Cv.li.75; see also Cv. Trs.i.145, n.2).
Uttaramadhurā 1.-See Madhurā.
Uttaramadhurā 2.-The pleasance in which Mangala Buddha was born. BuA.115.
Uttarāpa.-The name given to the region to the north of the river Mahī (SnA.ii.437). See also Anguttarāpa.
Uttarāpathaka.-A resident of Uttarāpatha. J.ii.31; Vin.iii.6.
Uttara-rāja-putta.-Mentioned in the Samantapāsādikā (Sp.iii.544) as having sent to the Elder Mahāpaduma a shrine made of gold, which the Elder refused to accept, as it was not permissible for him to do so.
Uttarasena.-A dwelling-house in the Abhayuttara-vihāra (Abhayagiri) built by Uttara, a minister of Sena I. He provided it with all the necessaries. Cv.l.83.
Uttaratissārāma.-A monastery in Ceylon, built by Tissa, minister of Vattagāmani. It was dedicated to the thera Mahātissa of Kambugalla (Kapikkala?). Mhv.xxxiii.92; MT.622.
Uttaravaddhamāna.-See Antaravaddhamāna.
Uttarika.-A diminutive form of Uttarā used by Uttaramātā, the Yakkhinī, in addressing her daughter. S.i.210.
Uttaroliya Vagga. The sixth section of the Rasavāhinī.
Uttaromūla, Uttarola.-See Uttaramūla.
Uttika.-See Uttiya.
Uttinna Thera.-He came from Kasmīra, at the head of 280,000 monks, to be present at the foundation-ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa in Anurādhapura. Mhv.xxix.37.
Utulhipupphiya Thera.-An arahant. He made a garland of utulhi-flowers and offered it to a bodhi-tree. This was at the beginning of this kappa. Ap.ii.398.
Ūvarattha.-See Hūvarattha,
Uyyānadvāra.-A gate in Pulatthipura, built by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiii.162.