Pali Proper Names - A -

• Amabavitthi.-A village in the north of Ceylon. It was the birthplace of Culatissa Thera. Ras.ii.30.
• Amaccharī Sutta.-A woman should not be stingy and she should be wise. S.iv.244.
• Amadha.-See Damatha.
• āmagandha (Sutta)
• āmakadhañña-peyyala.-The ninth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. It contains a list of the gifts which Ariyan monks abstain from accepting. S.v.470-3.
• āmalacetiya.-A thupa in Ceylon. It is not known who built it. Aggabodhi I. erected a parasol over it. Cv.xlii.62.
• āmalakīvana, Amalakivana.-A grove at Cātumā. The Buddha once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the Cātuma Sutta was preached. M.i.456.
• āmandagāmanī Abhaya
• āmandaphaladāyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth, while carrying a pingo laden with fruit, he saw the Buddha Padumuttara and offered him an āmanda fruit (pumpkin?). In the present age he became an arahant. Ap.ii.459.
• Amara
• Amarā (Amarādevī)
• Amarādevī-pañha
• Amaragiri
• Amarapura
• Amaravatī
• Amarinda.-Name given to Sakka, king of the gods. E.g., ThagA.151, 112.
• Amaruppala.-The name borne by Kākavannatissa when he was a hunter in a village near Amaruppala-lena. Ras.ii.56.
• Amaruppala-lena.-A cave in the Malaya province of Ceylon. Kākavannatissa was once born in a hunters' village near it. Ras.ii.56.
• Amata (Sutta / Vagga)
• Amatadundubhi.-One of the names under which the Bahudhātuka Sutta is known (M.iii.67). Like soldiers in the field of battle, so the disciples in the path, developing insight after the method of this sutta, raise aloft the standard of Arahantship - hence the name. MA.ii.888.
• Amba Jātaka (No. 124, 474)
• Amba Sutta.-The four kinds of mangoes (ripe, etc.) and four corresponding classes of monks. A.ii.106f.
• Ambacora Jātaka (No. 344)
• Ambadāyaka Thera
• Ambadugga.-A tank in Ceylon, built by Kutakannatissa. Mhv.xxxiv.33.
• Ambagāma
• Ambahattha
• Ambakhādaka-Mahātissa.-See Mahātissa (3).
• Ambala.-Probably the name of a tower in the Jetavana monastery. The Sunakha Jātaka was preached there about a dog who lived in its resting-hall (J.ii.246).
• Ambalala.-A locality in Rohana, near the Kantakavana, where the forces of Parakkamabāhu I., under Rakkha, were victorious in battle. Cv.lxxiv.58.
• Ambalatthikā
• Ambalatthika-Rāhulovāda Sutta
• Ambālavana.-See Ambātaka.
• Ambālavāpi.-A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxviii.46) A canal known as Tambapannī flowed from the tank northwards. Cv.lxxix.50.
• Ambāmacca
• Ambamāla Vihāra.-A monastery in Rohana built by Dappula I. Cv.xlv.55.
• Ambanganatthāna
• Ambapālī (Ambapālikā)
• Ambapāli Sutta
• Ambapāli Vagga.-The first chapter of the Satipatthāna Samyutta in the Mahāvagga of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.v.141-8).
• Ambapālivana
• Ambapāsāna.-A monastery in the village of Anganakola in South Ceylon, where lived the Elder Cittagutta. MT.552.
• Ambapindiya Thera
• Ambara-Ambaravatī.-The double name of a city in Uttarakuru. D.iii.201; DA.iii.966.
• Ambaramsa.-See Abbhasa.
• Ambariya Vihara.-A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Pingala-Buddharakkhita Thera. It was near Antaravaddhamana-pabbata (SA.ii.113; MA.i.165; DhsA.103). It was also the residence of Pindapātika-Tissa Thera. AA.i.277.
• Ambasakkhara
• Ambasakkharapeta Vatthu.-The story of Ambasakkhara and the peta, as given above. The Elder Kappitaka related the story to the Buddha, and the Buddha made it an occasion for a discourse to the assembled multitude. PvA.243-4.
• Ambasāmanera.-Name of Silākāla. When he was a novice in the Order, at Bodhimanda Vihāra, he fulfilled his duties to the community with zeal and skill. Once he presented a mango-fruit to the Sangha, and the monks, being pleased, gave him this name. Cv.xxxix.48ff.
• Ambasanda
• Ambasuppiya.-See Appihā.
• Ambātaka Thera.-An arahant. Fourteen kappas ago he had given a mango to a Buddha (Ap.ii.394). He is probably identical with Rājadatta Thera. ThagA.i.403.
• Ambātakavana
• Ambātakiya Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he had met the Buddha Vessabhū in the mountains and given him a mango. Ap.ii.399.
• Ambatittha
• Ambatitthaka
• Ambattha
• Ambattha Sutta
• Ambattha-gotta
• Ambatthaja.-Seventy kappas ago there were fourteen kings of this name, all former lives of Ambadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.117.
• Ambatthakola
• Ambatthala
• Ambattha-vijjā
• Ambavana
• Ambavāpi.-A tank at Būkakalla in Ceylon. It was given over to the Mātambiya-padhānaghara by the Damila, Potthakuttha. Cv.xlvi.19-20.
• Ambavāsavāpi.-One of the tanks restored by Parakkamabāhu I. before his great war. Cv.lxviii.43. For identification see Cv. trans. i.280, n.5.
• Ambayāgadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago, going to the forest in pursuit of his trade, he met the Buddha and gave him an offering of mangoes (v.l. Appaº).
• Ambayāgu(yāga ?)-dāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had met a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsī, when the latter had just awakened from samādhi, and had given him a broth (?) made of mangoes (Ap.i.284).
• Ambilahāra Vihāra
• Ambila-janapada.-A district in Ceylon. In it was the Rajatalena. MT.400.
• Ambilapassava
• Ambilāpika.-A village given by Jetthatissa III. for the supply of food to Kassapagirivihāra. Cv.xliv.98.
• Ambilayāgu.-A village in Ceylon. It was the residence of Dāthānāma, father of Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.15.
• Ambillapadara.-A village given by Aggabodhi III. to the Cetiyapabbata monastery. Cv.xliv.122.
• Ambutthi.-A tank built by Upatissa II. Cv.xxxvii.185.
• Ambuyyāna.-A monastery in Ceylon. Udaya I. (or Dappula) built in it the dwelling-house Dappulapabbata. Cv.xlix.30; trs. i.126 n.1. According to Cv.l.80, it was built not by the king but by Mahādeva. It was finished later by Sena I. Cv.l.80.
• Āmisakiñcikkha Sutta.-One of the suttas in a group of eight, dealing with people who will not lie for the sake of gain - and, in this case, for the sake of anything worldly whatsoever. S.ii.234.
• Amitā
• Amita.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous birth of Aggapupphiya Thera (v.l. Amitobhava, Amitogata). Ap.i.229.
• Amitābha.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a previous birth of Ekasaññaka Thera. Ap.i.210.
• Amitabhogā.-Five setthīs in Bimbisāra's dominions, whose wealth was limitless. They were Jotiya, Jatila, Mendaka, Punnaka, and Kākavaliya. AA.i.220; for details see s.v.
• Amitañjala.-A king of fourteen kappas ago; a previous birth of Sālapupphiya Thera (v.l. Asitañjala). Ap.i.219.
• Amitobhava.-See Amita.
• Amitodana
• Amitta.-See Somamitta.
• Amittabhā.-A king of twenty-five kappas ago; a former life of Bhojanadāyaka Thera (v.l. Amittaka). Ap.i.253.
• Amittaka.-See Amittabhā.
• Amittatāpanā
• Amittatāpana.-A king of seventeen kappas ago; a previous life of Pavittha Thera (ThagA.i.185), probably to be identified with Ekadamsaniya of the Apadāna (i.168).
• Amoraphaliya Thera
• Anabhirati Jātaka (No. 65, 185)
• Anabhirati Sutta.-The idea of distaste for all the world, if cultivated, is fruitful. S.v.132.
• Anabhirati-bhikkhu Vatthu
• Anabhisamaya Sutta.-Preached to the wanderer Vacchagotta. Diverse opinions arise in the world through not seeing the nature of the body, etc. S.iii.260.
• Anāgāmī Sutta.-The six qualities necessary for the third Fruit of the Path. A.iii.421.
• Anāgāmi-thera Vatthu.-Story of a monk who became anāgāmi; when asked by his pupils, however, he did not say anything regarding his attainment. After death he was born in the Suddhāvāsā. His pupils, grieving for him in their ignorance, were enlightened by the Buddha. DhA.iii.288-9.
• Anāgata Sutta.-The five kinds of anticipatory fears that should make a forest-dwelling monk zealous and active. A.iii.100f.
• Anāgatavamsa
• Ānaka (v.l. Ānnaka)
• Anālaya Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the destruction of attachment and the path leading thereto. S.iv.372.
• Anamatagga Samyutta
• Ananaka Sutta.-The four kinds of bliss possible to a householder: a bliss of ownership, of wealth, of debtless ness and of blamelessness. A.ii.69f.
• Ānañcāyatana Sutta.-On the three infinite spheres: infinite space, infinite consciousness, and sphere of nothingness. A.i.267.
• Ānanda
• Ānandā
• Ānanda Sutta/Vagga
• Ānanda-bhaddekaratta Sutta
• Ānandabodhi
• Ānandakumāra
• Ānandamānava.-See ānanda (17).
• Ānandena Sutta. The Buddha is asked by Ananda to tell him of a doctrine which would make him more ardent and intent. The Buddha teaches him the doctrine of impermanence. S.iii.187-8.
• Anangana Jātaka
• Anangana Sutta.-A record of a conversation between Sāriputta and Moggallāna on the nature of blemishes (anganāni) and on the benefits of recognising and removing them. M.i.24ff.
• Ānañjasappāya Sutta
• Ānañjasappāya Sutta.-See ānañjasappāya Sutta.
• Ananta.-The serpent king referred to under Anantapokkharanī, but not elsewhere mentioned in the old books. He is also called Anantabhoga. For details see Hopkins' Epic Mythology (pp. 23-4).
• Anantajālī.-King. A previous birth of Bhājanadāyaka fifty-three kappas ago (Antarajāli). Ap.i.218.
• Anantajina
• Anantakāya
• Anantapokkharanī.-A pond constructed by Parakkamabahu I. in Pulatthipura. The steps surrounding the pond were laid like the coils of the serpent-king Ananta. Cv.lxxiii.120.
• Anantarabhandaka-tittha.-A ford in the Mahāvāluka-gangā in Ceylon. Cv.lxxii.16.
• Anantarapeyyāla.-One of the sections of the Vidhura Jātaka. J.vi.304.
• Anantavā Sutta.-On the world as being unlimited. S.iii.215.
• Ananusociya Jātaka (No. 328)
• Ananussuta Sutta.-The five-fold power of a Tathāgata. A.iii.9f.
• Ananutappiya Sutta.-Preached by Sāriputta on how a monk should deport himself so as to have no occasion for repentance. A.iii.294f.
• Ānāpāna Kathā.-The third section of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. Ps.i.162ff.
• Ānāpāna Samyutta.-The fifty-fourth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.v.311-41.
• Ānāpāna Sutta.-The idea of in-breathing and out-breathing, if cultivated and developed, leads to much profit. S.v.132.
• Ānāpāna Vagga.-The seventh chapter of the Bojjhanga Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.v.129-32.
• Ānāpānasati Sutta
• Anāsava Sutta.-The Buddha teaches that which is free from āsavas and the way thereto. S.iv.369.
• Anāsava.-A Pacceka Buddha found in a list of Pacceka Buddhas. He lived in Isigili. M.iii.70; Ap.i.107.
• Anatam Sutta.-See Anta Sutta.
• Anātha.-A Pacceka Buddha of thirty-one kappas ago. Uddālapupphiya Thera, in a previous birth, offered him an uddāla-flower. Ap.i.288.
• Anāthapindika
• Anāthapindika Sutta/Vagga
• Anāthapindika-putta-Kāla Vatthu.-Story of the conversion of Anāthapindika's son Kāla. DhA.iii.189-92.
• Anāthapindika-Setthi Vatthu.-Story of the goddess, guardian of Anāthapindika's gate.
• Anāthapindikassārāma.-See Jetavana.
• Anāthapindikovāda Sutta
• Anaticārī Sutta.-A woman who is no adulteress will be born in heaven. S.iv.244.
• Anatta Sutta
• Anattā Sutta
• Anattalakhana Sutta/Vatthu
• Anattaniya Sutta.-For that which does not belong to the self, desire must be put away. S.iii.78.
• Anattena Sutta.-Lust and desire for that which is without a self should be put away. S.iii.178.
• Anatthapucchakabrāhmana Vatthu.-Story of a brahmin who asked the Buddha whether he knew only of that which was good or did he know evil as well? The Buddha set his doubts at rest. DhA.ii.227-9.
• Anatthatāya Sutta.-Negligence (pamāda) conduces to great loss. A.i.16.
• Añcanavana.-See Añjanavana.
• Andabharīgāmakūtaka Sutta
• Andabhūta Jātaka (No. 62)
• Andhā
• Andha Sutta.-On the three classes of persons: the blind, the one-eyed, and the two-eyed (A.iii.128f).
• Andhabhūta Sutta.-See Addhabhūta Sutta.
• Andhakā
• Andhakāra Sutta.-The ignorance of Ill, its arising, etc., is greater and more fearsome than the darkness of interstellar space (lokantarika). S.v.454-5.
• Andhakāra Vagga.-The second section of the Pācittiya in the Bhikkhunī-vibhanga. Vin.iv.268-71.
• Andhakāra.-A village in Ceylon, one of the villages given by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara built by the king for the Thera Dāthāsiva. Cv.xlvi.12.
• Andhakarattha.-See Andhakā (1).
• Andhakavenhu
• Andhakavenhu-(dāsa)-puttā
• Andhakavinda
• Andhakavinda Brāhmana.-See under Andhakavinda. His story is given as an illustration of how followers of the Buddha would often pursue him with manifold gifts. E.g., UdA.112.
• Andhakavinda Sutta/Vagga
• Andhanāraka.-One of the villages given by Aggabodhi IV, for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara built for the Elder Dāthāsiva. Cv.xlvi.13.
• Andhapura
• Andhatthakathā.-One of the Commentaries used by Buddhaghosa (Sp.iv.747). It was handed down at Kāñcipura (Conjevaram) in South India.
• Andhavana
• Andu.-A village near Pulatthipura. Cv.lix.5.
• Anejakā.-A class of devas mentioned as having been present on the occasion of the preaching of the Mahā-Samaya Sutta. D.ii.160.
• Anekavanna
• Anekavannavimāna.-The abode of Anekavanna-devaputta. Vv.74-5.
• Anga
• Anga Sutta
• Angagāma.-A tank built by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.37.
• Angaka.-Nephew (sister's son) of Sonadanda. D.i.123.
• Angamu.-A place in Ceylon identified with the modern Ambagamuva (Geiger Cv. trans. i.298, n. 3). The Senāpati Deva once encamped there. Cv.lxx.130.
• Anganakola.-A village in South Ceylon, the residence of Ambapāsāna-vāsī-Cittagutta. MT.552.
• Anganasālaka.-A village given by Aggabodhi II. to the Abhaya(giri-)vihara. Cv.xlii.63.
• Angāni Sutta 1.-The five qualities of exertion (padhāna). A.iii.65.
• Angāni Sutta 2.-On the five qualities which a monk should have and the five which he should discard to complete his duties in the religion and attain its highest eminence. A.v.16-17.
• Anganika-Bhāradvāja
• Angarājā.-The chieftain of Anga in the Buddha's time. See Anga.
• Angārapabbata.-A blazing mountain of white hot coal, one of the tortures of the Mahāniraya. Kvu.597.
• Angati
• Angika Sutta.-On the development of the fivefold Ariyan Samādhi. A.iii.25-9.
• Angirasa (Angīrasa)
• Angīrasī.-A term of affection (Radiant One) used by Pañcasikha in addressing Suriyavaccasā (D.ii.265). The Commentary (DA.iii.701) explains that she was so called because her limbs shone (ange rasmiyo assāti Angīrasī.)
• Angulimāla (Angulimālaka)
• Angulimāla Paritta.-See above; referred to also in the Milindapañha (p.151) in a list of Parittas.
• Angulimāla Sutta.-Contains the story of the bandit's conversion and the bliss of his deliverance. M.ii.97ff.
• Angulimāla-pitaka.-Given in a list of heretical works. SA.ii.150; Sp.iv.742.
• Anguttara Nikāya
• Anguttaranavatīkā.-By Sāriputta, author also of Sarātthadīpanī-Vinaya-tīkā (q.v.). Gv.71.
• Anguttarāpa
• Anguttara-tīkā.-By Candagomi, evidently an author of Ceylon. Svd.v.1201.
• Anguttaratthakathā.-Quoted in the exegesis to the Jātaka. J.i.131.
• āni Sutta
• Anicca Sutta / Vagga
• Aniccā Sutta.-On the seven kinds of persons who are worthy of homage and of gifts. A.iv.13-14.
• Aniccadhamma Sutta.-Desire for that whose nature is impermanent should be destroyed. S.iii.199.
• Aniccatā Sutta
• Anidassana Sutta.-The invisible and the path leading thereto. S.iv.370.
• Anīgha.-A Pacceka Buddha; occurs in a list of Pacceka Buddhas. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Anikadatta.-See Anikaratta.
• Anīkanga
• Anikaratta
• ānimandavya.-See Animandavya.
• Animandavya.-See Mandavya.
• Animisa-cetiya
• Animitta Sutta.-Preached by Moggallāna ; it records an occasion when he experienced unconditioned rapture of the heart (animittaceto-samādhi). S.iv.268.
• Aniruddha.-See Anuruddha.
• Ānisamsa Sutta.-On the six advantages of realizing the first fruit of the Path (Sotāpattiphala). A.iii.441.
• Ānisamsa Vagga
• Anissukī Sutta.-A woman who is faithful, modest, scrupulous, not wrathful and rich in wisdom, will be reborn in a happy condition. S.iv.244.
• Anītika Sutta and Anītikadhamma Sutta.-On the state that is free from ill and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
• Anitthigandhakumāra
• Anitthigandhakumāra Vatthu.-See Anitthigandhakumāra (3).
• Anivatta Brahmadatta
• Aniyata.-The third division of the Pārājika of the Sutta Vibhanga. Vin.iii.187-94.
• Añjalī.-One of the nuns who accompanied Sanghamittā to Ceylon. Dip.xviii.24.
• Añjana
• Añjanadevi
• Añjana-pabbata.-One of the six peaks of the Himālaya from which rose the five great rivers and round which were the seven lakes (J.v.415). Pabbata, one of the seven chief pupils of the Bodhisatta Jotipāla, had his hermitage there. J.v.133.
• Anjana-vana (Añcana-vana)
• Añjanavaniya Thera
• Añjanavasabha
• Añjasa.-A king of two kappas ago, father of Sunanda, a previous birth of Upāli. Ap.i.45, v.111; ThagA.i.367.
• Ankolaka Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he had offered an ankola-flower to Siddatha Buddha. Once, thirty-six kalpas ago, he was a Cakkavatti named Devagajjita. Ap.i.199.
• Ankolaka-pupphiya Thera
• Ankura
• Ankura Vatthu.-The story of Ankura. DhA.iv.80-2.
• Ankurapeta Vatthu.-See Ankura. According to MA.i.225 and DA.i.178, in this story the word brahma-cariya is used to mean veyyāvacca (service).
• Anna Sutta 1.-All creatures desire food, so food should be given in charity (S.i.32).
• Anna Sutta 2.-A.ii.86f.; but see GS.ii.96. n.1.
• Añña Sutta.-On the results of developing the four satipatthāna. S.v.181.
• Annabhāra
• Aññamjivām aññamsarīram Sutta.-That the body is one thing and the soul another is the view held by some people. S.iii.215.
• Aññanā Sutta.-Five of the same name recording conversations with the Paribbājaka Vacchagotta regarding the results of ignorance. S.iii.257-9.
• Annasamsāvaka
• Aññāta-Kondañña (Aññā-Kondañña) Thera
• Aññatara Sutta 1.-On the chain of causation. S.ii.75-6.
• Aññatara Sutta 2.-Few are born among men because beings do not see the four Ariyan truths. S.v.465.
• Aññatara° Vatthu.-Several stories given in the Dhammapada Commentary are designated only by such titles as Aññatara-itthi vatthu, Aññatara-kutumbika vatthu, etc. For reference to such stories see DhA. Index (Vol. v.).
• Aññatara-Bhikkhu Sutta.-Two of this name containing questions on the holy life and the destruction of the āsavā. S.v.7-8.
• Aññatara-Brahma Sutta.-A certain Brahmā thought no recluse or brahmin could come to his world. The Buddha, Mogallāna, Mahākassapa, Mahākappina and Anuruddha all appeared there and refuted his views. S.i.144f.
• Aññatitthiya Bhānavāra.-Ends the sixteenth chapter of the second khandhaka of the Mahāvagga. Vin.i.115.
• Aññatitthiya Sutta.-Describes a visit of Sāriputta to some heretical teachers in Rājagaha and the discussions that ensued. Ananda reports the incident to the Buddha, who approves and explains the questions further. S.ii.32f.
• Aññatitthiya Sutta.-The answers that should be given to followers of other faiths if they should question about lust, malice and delusion. A.i.199-201.
• Aññatitthiya Vagga.-Several discourses on the views of other teachers. S.v.27f.
• Anodhi Sutta.-Three suttas on the development of unlimited reflection of anicca, dukkha and anattā. A.iii.443f.
• Anojā
• Anoma
• Anomā
• Anomadassī
• Anomārāma
• Anomasatta.-An epithet of the Buddha. UdA.304; KhA.170.
• Anomiya Sutta.-Contains verses in praise of the Buddha who is called the Peerless (Anonianāma) (S.i.33). The verses are found also in the Sutta Nipāta (Sn.p.177).
• Anopamā
• Anopama.-Birthplace of the Vessabhū Buddha and capital of his father, King Suppatīta. D.ii.7; but Bu.xxii.18 gives it as Anoma. The BuA. (p. 205) calls it Anūpama.
• Anorata.-The name by which Anuruddha (Anawrata), King of Burma (Ramañña), is generally known. He was a religious reformer and was helped in his task by a Talaing monk, Arahanta. Bode: Pāli Lit. of Burma, pp. 11-13.
• Anotatta
• Anottapā Sutta.-Records a conversation between Mahākassapa and Sāriputta in Isipatana. A man without ardour (anātāpī) and without care (a-nottāpī) is incapable of Enlightenment and Nibbana. S.ii.195f.
• Anottappamūlakā-tīni Sutta.-Through an element (dhātuso) beings meet together, the indiscreet with the indiscreet, the untaught with the untaught, the unwise with the unwise and vice versa. S.ii.163.
• Anta Jātaka (No. 295)
• Anta Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the end, as well as the way thereto. See also Antā Sutta. (S.iv.373).
• Antā Sutta.-The four separate divisions: Sakkāya, its arising, ceasing, and the way thereto. S.iii.157-8.
• Anta Vagga.-The first chapter of the Uparipaññāsaka of the Khanda Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.iii.157ff).
• Antaka.-See Māra.
• Antalikkhacara.-A king who reigned thirty-two kappas ago; ākā-sukkhipiya Thera in a previous birth. Ap.i.230.
• Antaraganga.-A district in Ceylon. Ras.ii.10.
• Antarāganga.-A monastery in Ceylon to which Jetthatissa III. gave the village of Cullamātika. Cv.xliv.100.
• Antaramegiri.-A monastery built by King Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
• Antarapeyyāla.-A section of the Nidāna Samyutta containing twelve suttas with abridged contents. S.ii.130ff.
• Antarasobbha
• Antaravaddhamāna
• Antaravitthi
• Antavā Sutta.-The origin of the view that the world is limited. S.iii.214.
• Antevāsī Sutta.-A monk dwells at ease without a pupil or a teacher, the pupil or co-resident (antevāsī) being the name given to evil and unprofitable states of mind which arise in him and abide in him through the senses. Such states are also called "teacher" (ācariya) because they beset and master him. S.iv.136-8.
• Antureli.-One of the villages given by King Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the Padhāna-ghara, which he built for the Thera Dāthā-siva. Cv.xlvi.13.
• Anubuddha Sutta.-Preached at Bhandagāma, on the importance of understanding. A.ii.1f.
• Anudhamma Sutta.-The Bhikkhu, who conforms to the Dhamma, should live in disgust for the body, feeling, etc. S.iii.40-1.
• Anugāra.-An eminent wandering ascetic. He is mentioned as living in the Paribbājakārāma in the Moranivāpa in Veluvana near Rājagaha. He was probably one of the company who was with Sakuludāyi when the Buddha came to visit the latter. M.ii.1.
• Anuggaha Sutta.-Right belief is endowed with five advantages. A.iii.20-l.
• Anujīvisamiddha.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.33.
• Anujjā (v.l. Anojā)
• Anukampaka Sutta.-The five ways in which a resident monk shows his sympathy for his lay supporters. A.iii.263f.
• Anukevatta
• Anula
• Anulā
• Anulatissapabbata.-A vihāra in Gangārājī in East Ceylon, built by Kanitthatissa. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
• Anulepadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. In Atthadassī's time he supplied plaster to a monk for carrying out some repairs to a building. Ap.i.251.
• Anulomadāyaka Thera
• Anumana Sutta
• Anumānapañha
• Anūna.-The name used by the Yakkha Punnaka to hide from Dhañjaya his real name, lest he should be mistaken for a slave. The word has the same meaning as Punnaka. J.vi.273-4.
• Anupada Sutta
• Anupada Vagga.-The second section of the Uparipaññāsa of the Majjhima Nikāya. M.iii.25ff.
• Anupādāya Sutta.-The holy life is lived with final emancipation, free from grasping, as its aim. S.v.29.
• Anupalakkhanā Sutta.-Diverse views are the result of want of discrimination. S.iii.261.
• Anupama
• Anupamā
• Anūpama Thera
• Anupanāhī Sutta.-The woman who is not wrathful will be born in a happy condition. S.iv.244.
• Anupiya (Anupiyā)
• Anūpiya.-See Anupiya.
• Anupubba
• Anura.-A general of the Vanga king's army, maternal cousin of Sīhabāhu, father of Vijaya. When Sīhabāhu left the lion's den with his mother and sister they came across Anura who was ruling the border country. Later Anura married Sīhabāhu's mother. Mv.vi.16-20; MT.246.
• Anurādha
• Anurādhagāma.-The name given to the settlement founded by the two Anurādhas. It was near the Kadamba-nadi (Mhv.ix.9; x.76). The capital, Anurādhapura, was later founded near it.
• Anurādhapura
• Anurāja.-Son of Sunanda, King of Surabhi, at the time of Mangala Buddha. He visited the Buddha in the company of his father, and, having listened to his preaching, became an arahant. BuA.119-20.
• Anurārāma
• Anuruddha Sutta/Samyutta
• Anuruddha Thera
• Anusamsāvaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past birth he gave a spoonful of rice to the Buddha Vipassī. Ap.i.247.
• Anusāsika Jātaka (No. 115)
• Anusāsikā.-The name of the greedy bird in the Anusāsika Jātaka. J.i.429.
• Anusaya Sutta
• Anusayā Sutta.-On how the anusayā can be uprooted. S.iv.32.
• Anusissa
• Anusota Sutta.-On four classes of persons: those who go with the stream and those who go against it; those who stand fast and those who have crossed over. A.ii.5f.
• Anussati Sutta 1.-The six topics of recollected ness. A.iii.284. In the Visuddhi Magga (p. 226) it is called Gedha Sutta.
• Anussati Sutta 2.-A detailed explanation of the above. A.iii.312ff.
• Anutīracārī.-An otter who had a dispute with another otter, Gambhīracārī, about a fish. They appealed to a jackal, Māyāvī, and lost in the bargain, the jackal claiming the middle of the fish as the price of his arbitration, leaving only the head and the tail for the otters. J.iii.333f.; DhA.iii.141-2.
• Anuttarasangāmavijaya (Dhammapariyāya).-One of the names by which the Bahudhātuka Sutta is known. M.iii.68.
• Anuttāriya Sutta 1.-The six unsurpassables. A.iii.284.
• Anuttāriya Sutta 2.-A detailed explanation of the above. A.iii.325f.
• Anuttariya Vagga.-The third chapter of the Chakka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.309-29.
• Anuvattanā Sutta.-Like a cakkavatti's eldest son, who, because of five qualities, administers the kingdom like his father, so does Sāriputta administer the Kingdom of Righteousness founded by the Buddha. A.iii.148-9.
• Anuvindakā.-Name of a people, mentioned with hosts of others, as seeking and finding hospitality in the house of Jatukannika, when, in a previous birth, he was a banker in Hamsavatī. Ap.ii.359.
• Anva Vagga.-See Addha Vagga.