Pali Proper Names - P -

• Pāra Sutta. The Buddha teaches of the further shore (beyond samsāra) und the path leading thereto. S.iv.369.
• Parābhava Sutta
• Paradārika Sutta. About a man of Rājagaha, an adulterer, born as a peta in a dung pit und seen by Mahā Moggallāna. S.ii.258.
• Pāragā. A class of devas. D.ii.260.
• Paragāma vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lx.61.
• Pāragangā. The region beyond the Ganges (z.B., J.ii.333; vi.427), to be exiled into which was a great punishment. z.B., SN. pp. 32, 47.
• Pārājikā. The first of the two divisions of the Sutta Vibhanga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Pārājikākanda. The first chapter of the Pārājikā.
• Pārājikuddesa. The third of the fünf divisions of the Pātimokkha.
• Parakkama
• Parakkamabāhu
• Parakkamabāhupāsāda. A monastic building attached to the Valligāma vihāra und erected by Parakkamabāhu IV. Cv.xc.96.
• Parakkamapandu. One of the three Virapperayaras whom Lankāpura won over mit gifts to alliance mit Vīrapandu. Cv.lxxvii.6.
• Parakkamapura
• Parakkamasāgara. A tank built by Parakkamabāhu I. It was connected mit the Kāragangā by the Godāvarī Canal. Cv.lxxix.28,67.
• Parakkamatalika. A tank built by Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxxix.27). See Parakkamabāhu.
• Parakkantabāhu, Parakkantabhuja. See Parakkamabāhu.
• Parakkasamudda
• Parakusinātā. One of the cities of Uttarakuru, described as having been built on an airy base. D.iii.200.
• Paramannadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he invited Vipassī Buddha to his house, where he served him mit excellent food. Ap.i.249.
• Paramarāja. A König of Ayodhya (in India?) who built a monastery, called the Lankārāma, for the Elder Dhammakitti. P.L.C.245.
• Paramassāsa Sutta. A conversation between Sāriputta und Jambukhādaka on what constitutes supreme comfort. S.ii.254; cp.iv.261.
• Paramatta. A Brahmā who was present at the Mahāsamaya. D.ii.260.
• Paramattha ~
• Pāramīmahāsataka. A Pāli poem of one hundert verses, in twelve sections, dealing mit the ten pāramitā, written by Dhammakitti Sangharāja. The poem is based on the Jātaka und the Cariyā Pitaka. P.L.C. 242.
• Parammarana Sutta. Mahā Kassapa explains to Sāriputta that the Buddha has omitted to say anything of his existence or otherwise after death, because such a discussion would be fruitless; but he has taught of dukkha und its cessation, because that is fruitful. S.ii.222f.
• Parangī. The Pāli name for the Portuguese, who invaded Ceylon. z.B., Cv.xcv. 5, 96; xcviii.80.
• Paranimmita Vasavattī
• Parantapa
• Parantapabbata.-One of the ambassadors sent by Devānampiyatissa to Asoka. Dpv.xi.29, 31.
• Pārāpara. The name of a family. See Pārāpariya.
• Pārāpariya Thera
• Pārāpata Jātaka. See Romaka Jātaka.
• Parappasādaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he was a brahmin named Sena, who, seeing Siddhattha Buddha, praised him in four stanzas. Fourteen kappas ago he was König four times under the name of Uggata (Ap.i.113f). He is probably identical mit Bhūta Thera. ThagA.i.494.
• Parasamuddavāsī Therī.-Referred to in the Commentaries (z.B., MA.ii.726); the reference is probably to the monks of India, as opposed to those of Ceylon.
• Pārāsara. The name of a family. See Pārāsariya.
• Pārāsariya
• Pārāyana Vagga
• Pārāyanikabrāhmanā
• Paresa Sutta. On three qualities essential for one who teaches others the Dhamma. A.i.151.
• Paribbājakā
• Paribbājakārāma. Der Klostergarten der Wanderasketen, oder der andersfährtigen Pilger.
• Paribbājaka Sutta
• Paribbājaka Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Majjhima Nikāya, containing suttas 71 80. M.i.481ff.
• Paribhutta.-A city In der Zeit von Sikhī Buddha, where the Bodhisatta was born as König Arindama. BuA.203.
• Pāricchattaka
• Pāricchattaka Sutta
• Pāricchattaka Vagga. The third chapter of the Vimāna Vatthu.
• Pāricchattaka Vimāna Vatthu
• Parihāna Sutta
• Parihāni Sutta. Sāriputta tells the monks of four qualities that bring about "falling off": abundance of lust, hatred, und delusion, und want of wisdom in profound matters. A.ii.143f.
• Parijāna (or Abhijāna) Sutta. By not thoroughly knowing or understanding the fünf khandhas one is unfit for the destruction of suffering. S.iii.26f.
• Parijānana Sutta. Without comprehending und detaching himself from the all   eye, nose, etc.   a man is incapable of extinguishing suffering. S.iv.17.
• Pārikā, Pārī. A hunter's Tochter, wife of Dukūlaka und Mutter of Suvannāsama (the Bodhisatta). For details see the Sāma Jātaka. Pārikā was a former birth of Bhaddā Kāpilānī. J.vi.95; Mil.123.
• Parikkhāra Sutta. The seven requisites for the attainment of samddhi   the first seven stages of the Noble Eightfold Path. A.iv.40.
• Parikuppa Sutta. Five kinds of persons who lie festering (parikuppa) in hell: those who kill Mutter, father, or arahant, maliciously draw blood from the Buddha, or create dissension in the Order. A.iii.146.
• Parilāha Sutta. Not to understand dukkha und its cessation is far more fearsome than to be born in the Parilāha-niraya. S.v.450.
• Parilāha. A niraya where all objects of the senses, even when really attractive, appear quite repulsive to those experiencing them. S.v.450.
• Pārileyya, Pārileyyaka
• Pārileyyaka Sutta. When the Buddha was staying in a forest near Pārileyya, some monks asked Ananda to take them to him. This he did, und the Buddha, reading the thoughts of certain monks, preached a sermon on the destruction of the āsavas by the full realization of impermanence und the absence of any self. S.iii.95ff.
• Parimandala Vagga. The first section of the Sekhiyā. Vin.iv.185 7.
• Parimucchita Sutta. One who does not regard the body, etc., as "I" und "mine" und as "self" will not have a hereafter. S.iii.165.
• Parinda. A Damila usurper, son of König Pandu. He ruled in Anurādhapura for three years between 433 und 460, und was succeeded by his youngest brother, Khudda Parinda. Cv.xxxviii.29.
• Parinibbāna Sutta
• Pariññā Sutta
• Pariññeyyā Sutta
• Pariññeyya Sutta. The All should be fully known. S.iv.29.
• Paripunnaka Thera
• Parisā Sutta
• Parisā Vagga. The fifth chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.70.
• Parisuddha Sutta. Eight conditions   the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path   which are absolutely pure und which come into being only on the appearance of a Tathāgata. S.v.15.
• Parisuddha Vagga. The thirteenth chapter of the Dasaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.v.237 40.
• Parisuddha. A König of sixty seven kappas ago, a previous birth of Dussadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.185.
• Parisuddhābhā
• Paritta, Parittā
• Parittābhā
• Parittasubhā. A class of devas belonging to the Subhas (M.iii.102). Beings are born among them after attaining the third jhāna (VibhA. 507). Their life span is sixteen kappas. AbhS. 23.
• Parittikkundirattha.-A district in South India. It was given over to Colagangara in return for his allegiance to Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvii.9.
• Parittikundiyāra. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.137, 221.
• Parivārapātha (or Parivāra)
• Pārivāsika Khandha. The second section of the Culla Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Parivena vihāra. A vihāra in Rohana, built by Aggabodhi, ruler of Rohana (Aggabodhi 6). Cv.xlv.45.
• Parivīmamsana Sutta
• Pariyādinna Suttā. Two suttas on how attachments arise und on how they can be completely exhausted. S.iv.33f.
• Pariyāya Sutta
• Pariyesanā Sutta. On four quests that are un Ariyan und four that are Ariyan. A.ii.247.
• Parosahassa Jātaka (Nr. 99)
• Parosahassa Sutta. Relates how once, when the Buddha was at Jetavana mit twelve hundert und fifty monks, instructing them und inciting them by means of a sermon on Nibbāna, Vangīsa, who was in the assembly, after obtaining the Buddha's permission, extolled him in a number of verses. S.i.192.
• Parosata Jātaka (Nr. 101). This story is analogous in all respects to the Parosahassa Jātaka (q.v.).
• Parosata Vagga. The eleventh chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.i.410 24.
• Pārupanā
• Pāsa Sutta
• Pāsa. A locality in South India, captured by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.236.
• Pasāda Sutta
• Pāsādabahula
• Pasādabahula Sutta.-See Pāsādabahula, which is a wrong reading.
• Pāsādakampana Sutta
• Pāsādakampana Vagga. The second chapter of the Iddhipāda Samyutta (S.v.263ff). It derives its name from the Pāsādakampana (or Moggallāna) Sutta (q.v.).
• Pasādapāsāda. A monastic building erected in the Selantarasamūhavihāra by Yasodharā, Tochter of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.Ix.84.
• Pāsādika Sutta
• Pāsāna Sutta. Once when the Buddha was in Gijjhakūta on a dark und rainy night, Māra sent many rocks crashing down in order to frighten him, but the Buddha was quite calm (S.i.109).
• Pāsānachātaka. See Akkhakkhāyika.
• Pāsānadīpa
• Pāsānagāmavāpī. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.36.
• Pāsānaka cetiya
• Pāsānalekha Sutta. Three kinds of persons: like carvings on rock, on the ground und on water. The first is easily angered und his anger lasts long; that of the second does not last long; the third is easily reconciled. A.i.283.
• Pāsānapabbata. A hill near Anurādhapura, to the north of the Nīcasusāna, laid out by Pandukābhaya. Mhv.x.35.
• Pāsānasinna. A locality in Ceylon where Dhātusena built the Dhātusenapabbata vihāra. Cv.xxxviii.47.
• Pāsānatittha. A ford across the Kadambanadī. From this ford the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra started, returning to the same spot. In Pāsānatittha was the Kuddavātakapāsāna. Mbv. 134,135.
• Pāsānavāpigāma.-A village in Rohana, near Mahāgāma. Ras.i.103.
• Pāsarāsi Sutta. Another name for the Ariyapariyesanā Sutta (q.v.). See also MA.ii.740.
• Pasayha Sutta. Five powers -  beauty, wealth, kin, sons, virtue -  the possession of which enables a woman to live at home, overpowering (pasayha) her husband. S.iv.246.
• Pasenadi
• Passaddhi Sutta. On tranquillity -  a conversation between Ananda und Udāyī. A.iv.455.
• Passī. A Pacceka Buddha erwähnt in a nominal list. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107; MA.ii.890.
• Passika Thera
• Pasūra
• Patācārā
• Pātala
• Pātāla Sutta. The worldlings speak of a bottomless pit (pātāla) in the mighty ocean. But the real pātāla is painful bodily feeling, which brings about weeping und wailing und lamentation. S.iv.206f.
• Pātali or Mānapa Sutta. A series of discussions between Pātali und the Buddha, on various topics. S.iv.340ff.
• Pātali. A headsman of Uttara who visited the Buddha und questioned him regarding his power of magic. Several conversations he had mit the Buddha, on various topics, are given in the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.340ff.
• Pātaligāma, Pātaliputta
• Pātaligāmiya Vagga. The eighth section of the Udāna. Ud., pp. 80 ff.
• Pātalipūjaka Thera
• Pātalipupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety two kappas ago he was a setthi putta who, seeing Tissa Buddha, offered him a lapful of pātaliflowers. Sixty three kappas ago he was a König named Abhisammata. Ap.i.122f.
• Pātaliputta peta
• Pātaliputta. A Paribbājaka; see Potaliputta, for which it is a wrong reading.
• Pātaliputtaka brahmin
• Patāpa. A mythical König, descendant of Mahāsammata. His father was Mahāruci (or Suruci) und his son was Mahāpatāpa. Dpv.iii.7; Mhv.ii.44.
• Patāpana. A Niraya (J.v.266, 453), so called because its heat was excessive (ativiya tāpetī ti Patāpano). J.v.271.
• Pātapata. A locality in South India, erwähnt in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.224, 234.
• Pathama Cetiya. A cetiya built by Devānampiyatissa, on the spot where Mahinda alighted on his first visit to Anurādhapura und the König's palace. Mhv.xiv.45; xx.20; Sp.i.79. One of the eight Bodhi saplings was planted there. Mhv.xix.61.
• Pathamasambodhi. The name of a book. Gv. 65, 75.
• Pathamasuddhiya Sutta. The four jhānas, which, when cultivated, flow to Nibbāna, just as the Ganges flows to the east. S.v.307.
• Pathavī Sutta
• Pathavicālaka Dhammagutta. See Dhammagutta.
• Pathavidundubhi. A König of ninety one kappas ago, a previous birth of Mānava (Sammukhāthavika). ThagA.i.163; Ap.i.159.
• Pathavindhara 1. A Nāga König, a previous birth of Rāhula. AA.i.142, etc.; but see s.v. Rāhula.
• Pathavindhara 2. Son of Kiki, König of Benares. He built one of the gateways of the Dhātughara of Kassapa Buddha. SNA.i.194.
• Pātheyya Sutta.-Spoken in answer to a deva's questions. Faith is the provision for the way (of samsāra); desires drag men round und round. S.i.44.
• Pātheyyakā. See Pāveyyakā.
• Pāthika (Pāthiya)
• Pāthīna. A monastery in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.Ix.58.
• Pāti Sutta. Dire are gains, favours und flattery. They tempt even a man, otherwise incorruptible, to lie for the sake of a silver bowl filled mit gold dust, or a golden bowl filled mit silver dust. S.ii.233.
• Patibhāna Sutta. The four kinds of people in the world: he who replies to the point, not diffusely; he who replies diffusely; etc. A.ii.135.
• Pātibhoga Sutta. Four things against which there can be no surety: decay, disease, death und rebirth. A.ii.112; cp.iii.54; Kvu.457.
• Paticchanna Sutta. Three things which are practised in secret: the ways of women, the chants of brahmins, the views of perverse men; und three others which are there for all to see: the sun, the moon, und the dhamma-vinaya of a Tathāgata. A.i.282.
• Patidesanīya Vagga. One of the sub divisions of the Pācittiya. Vin.iii.175ff.
• Pātihāriyakathā. The sixth chapter of the Paññāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga.
• Pātihīrasaññaka Thera. An arahant. In the past he had seen the miracles attending the entry of Padumuttara Buddha into his city und marvelled thereat. Ap.ii.392.
• Patijagga. Sixty seven kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, all previous incarnations of Citakapūjaka Thera. Ap.i.237.
• Pātika
• Pātikaputta
• Pātikārāma. A park near Vesāli, where the Buddha was staying, when Sunakkhatta, having failed to impress him as to the greatness of Korakkhattiya, left the Order und went about abusing the Buddha. J.i.389; cp.ibid., 77.
• Patikkūla Sutta. The idea of the repulsiveness of food, if cultivated und encouraged, conduces to great profit. S.v.132.
• Patikolamba. A cook. He refused to listen to Sattigumba who suggested killing the Pañcāla König (J.iv.431f.). See the Sattigumba Jātaka.
• Patilābha Sutta. A description of the fünf indriyas. S.v.199f.
• Patilīna Sutta. A monk, who has shaken off various speculations, has given up searching for sense pleasures und going on other quests und has obtained calm by abandoning pleasure und pain, such a one is called patilīna (withdrawn). A.ii.41f.
• Patimā vihāra. A monastery probably in Kānagāma, where Aggabodhi, ruler of Rohana, set up a large stone image of the Buddha. Cv.xlv.43.
• Pātimokkha
• Pātimokkha Sutta. A monk asks the Buddha for a brief teaching. The Buddha tells him that he should dwell in the self control of the Pātimokkha, well equipped in his range of practice (ācāragocarasampanno), seeing danger in the minutest faults und undertaking the precepts. Thus will he be able to develop the four satipatthānas. S.v.187.
• Pātimokkhalekhana. A book for Vinaya students, by Ñānavara. Bode, op cit., 67.
• Pātimokkhathapana Khandaka. The ninth chapter of the Culla Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Pātimokkhavisodhanī. A commentary by Saddhammajotipāla. Gv.p.64.
• Patipadā Sutta
• Patipanna Sutta
• Patipatti Sutta. Preached at Sāvatthi, on wrong conduct und right conduct. S.v.23.
• Patipatti Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Magga Samyutta. S.v.23ff.
• Patipattisangaha.-A Pāli work by an unknown author. Gv. 62, 72.
• Patipūjikā
• Patirūpa Sutta. The Buddha was once staying in Ekasālā in Kosala, und there preached to a large congregation. Māra warned the Buddha not to teach, lest he should suffer both from the zeal of his supporters und the anger of his opponents. The Tathāgatha is unmindful of both, answered the Buddha. S.i.111.
• Patisallāna Sutta. The Buddha exhorts the monks to apply themselves to solitude, because the solitary man knows things as they really are. S.iii.15; iv.80; v.414.
• Patisambhidā Sutta
• Patisambhidākathā. The sixth section of the Yuganaddhavagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. Ps.ii.147 158.
• Patisambhidāmagga
• Patisankhāra. Thirty kappas ago there were thirteen kings of this name, all previous births of Sudhāpindiya Thera. Ap.i.133.
• Paṭisaṅkhānabala Sutta. Vier geistige Kräfte gibt es: Erwägung, Geistesentfaltung, Unbescholtenheit und Gunsterweisung. A.iv.155.
• Patisārānīya Sutta. Eight kinds of disqualifications in a monk, which entitle the Order to censure him. A.iv.346f.
• Patitthāna
• Patitthārattha. Another name for Rājarattha (q.v.), a division of Ceylon.
• Patitthita Sutta. On how a monk may establish earnestness in the fünf indriyas. S.v.232.
• Patiyāloka. A place near Rājagaha. Vin.iv.79, 131.
• Patiyārāma. The name of the Thūpārāma In der Zeit von Kakusandha Buddha. Sp.i.86; Dpv.xvii.11.
• Patoda Sutta. Four kinds of thoroughbred steeds in the world und the corresponding four kinds of thoroughbred men. The first kind of thoroughbred steed is stirred at the very sight of the shadow of the goad stick, similarly thoroughbred men are agitated at the news of another's affliction. A.ii.114f.
• Patta Vagga
• Pattadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he gave a bowl to Siddhattha Buddha. Ap.i.224.
• Pattakamma Sutta. Preached to Anāthapindika. Four things are difficult to acquire in the world: wealth lawfully obtained, good report, long life, happy rebirth. Four things conduce to their attainment: perfection of faith, of virtue, of generosity und of wisdom. A.ii.65ff.
• Pattakamma Vagga. The seventh chapter of the Catukka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.ii.65 76.
• Pāttanallūra. A fortress in South India, once occupied by Jagadvijaya. Cv.lxxvi.304,306; lxxvii.71.
• Pattapāsāna. A district of Ceylon, given for the maintenance of the Jetthārāma, by Jetthā, chief queen of Aggabodhi IV. Cv.xlvi.28.
• Pattapāsānavāpī. A tank in Ceylon, formed by Moggallāna II. by the damming up of the Kadambanadī (Cv.xli.61). It was restored by Vijyabāhu 1. (Ibid., lx.50) und again by Parakkamabāhu 1. Ibid., lxxix.34.
• Patthāna Sutta.-Three good results for which the good life should be lived. Sutta Sangaha No.29; Itv.67f. Perhaps the correct name is Patthanā Sutta. The Udāna calls it Sukka Sutta.
• Patthānaganānaya. An Abhidhamma treatise ascribed to Saddhammajotipāla. Gv.64,74.
• Patthānappakarana. The last "book" of the Abhidhammapitaka. It might be described as the book of "causes," und deals mit the zwanzig four paccayas or modes of relations between things, mental und material. Its Commentary was written by Buddhaghosa at the request of a monk called Culla Buddhaghosa.
• Patthānasāradīpanī. A work by a monk named Saddhammālankāra. Sās. 48; Bode, op. cit., 47.
• Patthodanadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he was a forester, und one day, when wandering in the forest mit his basket of rice, he saw the Buddha (Siddhattha?) und offered him the food. Ap.ii.376f.
• Patti. A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.144.
• Pattipupphiya Thera. An arahant. He offered a patti flower to the body of Padumuttara Buddha as it was being taken in the procession for cremation. Ap.i.291.
• Pātubhava Sutta. Six things, the manifestation of which in this world is rare. A.iii.441.
• Pāvā
• Pavarā. One of the fünf daughters of Vessavana, appointed, mit her sisters, to dance before Sakka. Vv.iii.4; VvA.131.
• Pavārana Sutta
• Pavāranakkhandha. The fourth section of the Mahā Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Pāvārika
• Pāvārikambavana
• Pāvārikārāma. See Pāvārika (2).
• Pavāsi Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (Nr. 37) to Mitta Sutta (q.v.).
• Pavattā. A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.70; MA.ii.890.
• Pavattanī Sutta. Religious talk is profitable when they who teach the Dhamma are separately und together able to penetrate the spirit und the letter of the Dhamma. A.i.151.
• Pavesana Sutta. Ten evil results of a monk visiting the König's harem. A.v.81ff.; cp. Vin.iv.159.
• Pāveyyakā
• Pāveyyaka Sutta. See Timsamatta Sutta.
• Pāveyyaka. An elephant. See Baddheraka.
• Pavittha Thera
• Paviveka Sutta
• Payāga, Payāgatittha, Payāgapatitthāna
• Pāyāgā. A class of Nāgas (D.ii.258). The Commentary explains (DA.ii.688) that they lived in Pāyāgapatitthāna.
• Pāyāsadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he offered a bronze bowl filled mit milk rice to Vipassī Buddha. Forty one kappas ago he was a König named Buddha (Ap.i.157). He is probably identical mit Vacchapāla Thera. ThagA.i.159f.
• Pāyāsi
• Payogasiddhi. A Pāli grammatical work, belonging to the Moggallāna school, by Vanaratana Medhankara. P.L.C.230f.