Pali Proper Names - N -

• Nābhasa. A class of Nāgas living in the lake Nābhasa (DA.ii.688); they were present at the Mahāsamaya. DA.ii.258.
• Nābhasa. A lake, the residence of Nāgas called Nābhasā. DA.ii.688.
• Nacca-Jātaka (Nr. 32)
• Nacca-Sutta. Few are they who abstain from witnessing exhibitions of dancing und singing, more numerous they who do not.' S.v.470.
• Nādika. Siehe Ñātikā.
• Nadi-Kassapa
• Nadi-Sutta
• Na-dubbhiya Sutta. Sakka once made up his mind not to betray even his enemy. Soon after, Vepacitti, discerning his thoughts, approached him. Sakka wished to take him prisoner, but Vepacitti undertook to show him no treachery. (S.1.225).
• Nāga
• Nāgā
• Nāgadāsaka
• Nāgadatta
• Nāgadeva. One of the descendants of Mahāsammata. He reigned in Campā, und zwanzig fünf of his descendants reigned in Mithilā (Dpv.iii.29).
• Nāgakesariya Thera. Ein Heiliger. In der Vergangenheit war er ein Jäger. Im Wald wandernd sah er eine Nāga Blume in voller Blüte und spendete sie mit beiden Händen an Tissa Buddha. Vor siebenundsiebzig Kappas war er ein König namens Pamokkharana. Ap.i.222.
• Nāgamandala paritta (oder Nāgamandalamanta). Mentioned as a charm possessing the power of bringing blessings on others. VibhA.410,411.
• Nāgamundā. Eine Sklavin, Geliebte von Mahānāma dem Sākiyer. Sie war die Mutter von Vāsabhakhattiyā. Jātaka 465.
• Nāgamundā. Eine hoch angesehene Nonne von Anurādhapura, ein Vinaya Lehrer. Dpv.xviii.34.
• Nāgapalivethana. One of the seven mountain ranges which must be crossed in order to reach Gandhamādana. SNA.i.66.
• Nāgapeta Vatthu
• Nāgapupphiya Thera
• Nagara. Der Name von König Madda's Hauptstadt (??) J.v.310.
• Nagaraka (v.l. Nangaraka)
• Nagarakhanda. A section of the Bhuridatta Jātaka, dealing mit the marriage of Samuddajā to Dhatarattha. J.vi.167.
• Nagarapavesana-khanda. A section of the Bhuridatta Jātaka, which deals mit the capture of the Bodhisatta by Alambāyana und his ultimate release by Sudassana und Accimukhi. J.vi.197.
• Nagara-Sutta
• Nagaravinda. A brahmin village in Kosala where the Buddha once stayed during a tour und where he preached the Nagaravindeyya Sutta. M.iii.290.
• Nagaravindeyya Sutta. Preached to the brahmins of Nagaravinda. One should honour und reverence only such Wanderers as have shed lust und hate und folly, have a tranquil heart, und walk in the paths of righteousness. Such Wanderers dwell in remote solitudes where there exists nothing which might excite their senses. M.iii.290ff.
• Nagarūpama Sutta. The seven defenses und the four kinds of supplies which make a König's frontier fortress unassailable by enemies und the corresponding qualities in a noble disciple which render him unassailable by Māra. A.iv.106ff.
• Nāgasālā
• Nāgasamālā. One of the two chief women disciples of Sujata Buddha. Bu.xiii.26; J.i.38.
• Nāgasamāla-Thera
• Nāgasena
• Nāgavana. Ein Park nahe bei Hatthigāma der Uggagahapati gehörte. Dort traf er das erste Mal auf den Buddha und wurde ein Anhänger der Lehre. A.viii.22; AA.ii.782.
• Nāga-Vihāra. Siehe Nāgamahā vihāra.
• Nāgavimāna Vatthu
• Naggadipa. An island where the children of Vijaya und of his companions landed on being expelled from Lāla. Mhv.vi.45; Dpv.ix.13.
• Naggaji
• Nagga-Vagga. The third section of the Pacittiya in the Bhikkhuni Vibhanga. Vin.iv.278 88.
• Nāgita
• Nāgopama Sutta. See Nāga Sutta (5).
• Na-hoti Tathāgata Sutta. One of the many views existing in the world due to want of enlightenment. S.iii.215.
• Na-jirati Sutta. A series of questions asked by a deva und the Buddha's answers. The first question is, "What doth decay und what doth not?" The answer is that material shapes of mortals decay, but not their name. (S.1.43)
• Najūpama. Ninety four kappas ago there was fünf hundert kings of this name, all previous births of Uppalahatthiya (Valliya) Thera. v.l.. Sabbūpasama. Ap.i.141; ThagA.i.125.
• Nakhasikhā Sutta
• Nakkhatta Jātaka (Nr. 49)
• Nakula
• Nakulā (1-3)
• Nakulakannikā.-See Nakula.
• Nakulanagara
• Nakulanigama. The village in which lived Nakulā (3). BuA. 163.
• Nakulapitā
• Nālā
• Nāla, Nālaka, Nālika
• Nala. A Gandhabba chieftain (D.ii.258) to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. Ibid.,iii.204.
• Nalagārika Thera
• Nālāgiri
• Nālaka
• Nalaka. Der Vorname von Mahā Kaccāna, Kaccāna war sein Familienname.
• Nalakalāpiya Sutta. A discussion between Sāriputta und Mahā Kotthita at the Migadāya in Isipatana. Sāriputta says that each link in the chain of causation depends upon the one next to it. It is as if two sheaves of reeds stand, leaning one against the other; if one is pushed, the other must fall. S.ii.112f.
• Nalakapāna
• Nalakāra
• Nalakāragāma. A village erwähnt in the Subha Sutta (M.ii.206) as being not far from Sāvatthi.
• Nālaka-Sutta
• Nālaka-Thera. Given as an example of an ugghatitaññū-puggala. After hearing, only once, the teaching of Pacceka Buddhas, he became himself a Pacceka Buddha. AA.i.354.
• Nalakutidāyaka Thera
• Nalamāla, Nalamālī
• Nalamālika Therī
• Nalamāliya Thera
• Nālandā
• Nalapāna Jātaka (Nr. 20)
• Nalasākiyā
• Nalāta. See Lalāta.
• Nala-Vagga. The first chapter of the Samyutta Nikaya. S.i.1 5.
• Nalerupucimanda
• Nālijangha. Ein Brahmane, den Mallikā zu Buddha sandte, um herauszufinden, ob es wahr ist, dass Buddha sagte, alle Lieben bringen Kummer und Sorgen. M.87.
• Nālika. A mountain in Himavā, on the way to the Mucalinda Lake. Vessantara passed it on his way to Vankagiri. J.vi.518, 519.
• Nālikera. An island, mit many attendant islands. When the country of König Bharu (q.v.) was destroyed because he took bribes, those who had blamed him for his unrighteousness were saved und found shelter in the islands round Nālikera. J.ii.173.
• Nālikeradāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he was a park keeper in Bandhumatī und gave to the Buddha a nālikera-fruit (Ap.ii.447f). He is probably identical mit Kundala Thera (ThagA.i.72) or mit Khitaka Thera (Ibid., 315).
• Nālikīra (Nālikera)
• Nalinakesariya Thera
• Nalini. Der Königdom of Vessavana. J.vi.313; but VvA. (339, 340) explains Nalini as a kilanatthāna. This agrees mit D.iii.202, where mention is made of a Kuvera nalini as one of the beauties of Vessavana's kingdom.
• Nalini-Jātaka. See Nalinikā Jātaka.
• Nalinikā. Daughter of the König of Kāsi. She seduced Isisinga. For her story see Nalinikā-Jātaka.
• Nalinikā-Jātaka (Nr. 526)
• Nalira. One of the palaces occupied by Sobhita Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.vii.17.
• Nāmācāradīpanī. An Abhidhamma treatise, probably composed by Chapata. Bode: op. cit., 18.
• Nāmarūpaparjecheda
• Nāmarūpasamāsa
• Nāmarūpa-Sutta. In him who contemplates the enjoyment of all that makes for fettering there comes descent of name und shape. The remaining links in the chain of causation follow on this. S.ii.90.
• Nāmasiddhi Jātaka (Nr. 97)
• Nāma-Sutta. Preached in answer to a deva's question   nāma, more than anything else, brings everything beneath its sway. S.i.39.
• Nammadā
• Namuci. A name for Māra (q.v.), given because he does not allow either gods or men to escape from his clutches, but works them harm. SNA.ii.386.
• Nānacchanda Jātaka (Nr. 289)
• Nānādhimuttiya Sutta. Anuruddha tells his colleagues that by cultivating the four satipatthānas he has come to know the divers characters of beings (S.v.305).
• Nānātitthiya-Sutta
• Nānātitthiya-Vagga. The third chapter of the Devaputta Samyutta. S.i.56 68.
• Nānatta-Vagga. The first chapter of the Dhātu Samyutta (S.ii.140 9).
• Nanda
• Nandā
• Nandādevī. Chief queen of Cūlani Brahmadatta, König of Pañcāla. She is identified mit Yasassikā. J.vi.434ff., 478; for details see Mahāummagga Jitaka.
• Nandagopā
• Nandaka
• Nandakovāda Sutta
• Nandamāla
• Nandamānava pucchā. The questions asked of the Buddha by Nandamānava, pupil of Bāvarī, und the Buddha's replies thereto. It forms the seventh sutta of the Parāyana Vagga (SN.vs.1077-83) und is commented upon in the Cullaniddesa. CNid.26ff.
• Nandamātā Sutta. Gibt die Geschichte von dem Zusammentreffen zwischen Velukantakī Nandamātā und Vessavana wieder. A.vii.50.
• Nandamātā. Siehe Uttarā Nandamātā (4) und Velukantakī Nandamātā.
• Nandamūlapabbhāra
• Nandana. A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthi und asked him questions regarding virtue, wisdom, etc. The Buddha answered them, und he went away satisfied. S.i.62.
• Nandana-pokkharanī. A lake of great splendour in Nandanavana, having one hundert bathing places und one tausend inlets, und covered mit the fünf kinds of lotus. J.ii.189; cp. Nandā pokkharanī. Elsewhere (z.B., J.vi.333) it is called Nandanavana pokkharanī.
• Nandana-Sutta
• Nandana-Vagga. The second chapter of the Devatā Samyutta. S.i.5-13.
• Nandanavana
• Nandanavimāna Vatthu. A story of a man who looked after his parents und continued to do so after his marriage. He was later born in Tāvatimsa, where he was visited by Moggallāna. Vv.vii.2; VvA.300f.
• Nandapañña.-A native of Hamsarattha; author of the Gandhavamsa (q.v.).
• Nandāpokkharanī. A lake, fünf hundert leagues in extent, in the Nandanavana in Tāvatimsa, which arose there as the result of the merit of Nandā, wife of Magha. (J.i.204, 205; vi. 132, 232, 531; DhA.i.275.) v.l. Nandanapokkharanī (q.v.). 
• Nandarājā und Nandarājadevī. See Nanda (11).
• Nandārāma
• Nandarāmā. One of the chief women supporters of Paduma Buddha. Bu.ix.23.
• Nandasārathī. Chief warrior of Elāra. He was killed by Velusumana. MT.315.
• Nandasena. An Upāsaka of a village near Sāvatthi. His wife, Nandā, was a wicked woman und, after death, became a peta. When she revealed herself to him, Nandasena gave alms in her name, und she gained happiness. Pv.ii.4; PvA.89ff.
• Nandati-Sutta. A deva visits the Buddha und tells him of various sources of gladness   children, cattle und sense pleasures. The Buddha replies that these are really all sources of sorrow. S.i.6; op. ibid.,107.
• Nandavaccha. See Nanda (13).
• Nandavatī. A nun, sister of Thullanandā. Her other two sisters were Nandā und Sundarīnandā. They were all married to the same brahmin und all left the world after his death. Vin.iv.211, 259.
• Nandhimitta (Nandimitta)
• Nandī.-The name of Mahā Kassapa when he was König of Benares. The story is given in Ras.i.26f. The name if; evidently a variant of Nanda. See Nanda (11).
• Nandicakka. An Elder who came to Ceylon at the head of a chapter of monks from Rakkhanga, at the request of König Vimaladhammasūriya, in order to confer the upasampadā ordination on the monks of Ceylon. Cv. xciv.15.
• Nandigāma
• Nandikkhaya-Sutta
• Nandikkhaya-Vagga. The sixteenth chapter of the Salāyatana Samyutta. S.iv.142 8
• Nandimitta. See Nandhimitta. See also Ras.ii.78 f. for a very detailed story.
• Nandimitta-Vihāra.-A monastery built by Nandimitta on the banks of the Jajjaranadī. Ras.ii.81.
• Nandirāja-Vagga.-The second section of the Rasavāhinī.
• Nandisena
• Nandivaddha. One of the chief lay supporters of Anomadassī Buddha. Bu.viii.24.
• Nandivaddhana.-One of the ten sons of Kālāsoka.
• Nandivānija
• Nandivāpigāma. A village in Ceylon, residence of Dhātusena, father of Dāthānāma (Cv.xxxviii.14). Gokanna, officer of Gajabāhu, was once defeated there (Ibid.,lxx.72). The village is perhaps identical mit Nandigāma.
• Nandivisāla
• Nandivisāla-Jātaka (Nr. 28)
• Nandivisāla-Sutta. Records the visit of the deva Nandivisāla (2) to the Buddha. S.i.63.
• Nandiya
• Nandiyamiga-Jātaka (Nr. 385)
• Nandiyāvatta. The name of a huge fish dwelling in the ocean. AA.i.285.
• Nandopananda
• Nanduttara
• Nangalakula-Thera
• Nangalisa-Jātaka (Nr. 123)
• Nangaraka. See Nagaraka.
• Nanguttha-Jātaka (Nr. 144)