1. Aruna.-A khattiya, Vater von Sikhī Buddha und Ehemann of Pabhāvatī (Bu.xxi.15; J.i.41; AA.i.436). Aruna's chief Königin wurde the Therī Abhayā in the present age (ThigA.41). Another of seinwives wurde, in her last life, the Therī Somā (ThigA.66), who is perhaps to be identifiziert mit Uppaladāyikā of the Apadāna (Ap.ii.601f). In the Samyutta Nikāya (S.i.155) he is called Arunavā.
2. Aruna.-The Assaka König of Potali in the Assaka country. (In the main story der König's name is given as Assaka, aber the scholiast says seinreal name was Aruna). The Kālinga König of that time, longing for a fight, aber finding no one willing to accept seinchallenge, at last devised a plan. He sent seinvier schön Töchter, in a covered carriage und mit an armed escort to the various cities in the neighbourhood, proclaiming that any König, who took them as wives, would have to fight their Vater. No one was found willing to take the risk till they came to Potali in the Assaka country. Even the Assaka König at first merely sent them a present by way of courtesy, aber seinminister, Nandisena, fertile in expedients, urged der König to marry them, saying that he himself would undertake to face the consequences. The Kālinga König at once set out mit seinarmy. On seinway to Potali, he came across the Bodhisatta, who was leading der Asket life und, without revealing seinidentity, consulted ihm bezüglich seinchances of success in the fight. Der Bodhisatta promised that he would siehe Sakka about it the next day und, having done so, informed der König that the Kālinga forces would win. Nandisena heard of this prophecy but, nothing daunted, he gathered together the Assaka forces und all their allies; then, by a well-planned manoeuvre, he managed to have the tutelary deity of Kālinga (who was fighting for the Kālinga König) killed by Assaka. Thereupon the Kālinga König was routed und fled. Der Bodhisatta, finding that seinprophecy had turned out false, sought Sakka in seindistress; Sakka consoled ihm thus: "Hast thou never heard that even the gods favour the bold hero of intrepid resolve, who never yields?"
Später, at the suggestion of Nandisena, the Assaka König demanded of Kālinga's ruler dowry for sein vier Töchter, und the Kālinga König acceded to sein request. Die Geschichte is told in the Kālinga Jātaka (J.iii.3ff.).
3. Aruna.-The pleasaunce near Anupama where der Buddha Vessabhu first preached to sein chief Schüler, Sona und Uttara. Bu.xxii.22, BuA.205.
4. Aruna.-The name of the lotus that grows in the Nāga world. It was one of Uppalavannā's wishes to have a body of the colour of the Aruna-lotus. Ap.ii.554(v.39).
5. Aruna.-A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahā-Samaya Sutta. They were of diverse hue, of wondrous gifts, mighty powers, comely und mit splendid following. D.ii.260.