Pali Proper Names - T -

• Tacasāra Jātaka (Nr.368)
• Tacchakā.-A class of Nāgas present at the Mahāsamaya. D.ii.258.
• Tacchasūkara Jātaka (Nr.492)
• Tadadhimutta.-A Pacceka Bhuddha. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Tadanga Sutta.-Kāludāyi asks Ananda, at the Ghositārāma, what is meant by Tadanganibbāna, und Ananda answers. A.iv.454.
• Tagara.-A city In der Zeit von Dhammadassī Buddha; it was the capital of König Sañjaya. BuA.p.183.
• Tagarasikhī
• Takka Jātaka (Nr.63)
• Takka. A city in India twelve leagues from Kāvīrapattana. It was the residence of monks. Ras.ii.108.
• Takkala Jātaka (Nr.446)
• Takkambila.-A pāsāda attached to a vihāra in Rohana. It was repaired by Dappula, who also installed monks there. Cv.xlv.56.
• Takkapandita.-The name given to the Bodhisatta in the Takka Jātaka.
• Takkarā.-A city In der Zeit von Sumana Buddha. ThagA.i.303; Ap.ii.416.
• Takkārika.-See Takkāriya below.
• Takkāriya Jātaka (v.l. Takkārika) (Nr.481)
• Takkāriya.-The Bodhisatta as chaplain to the König of Benares. See Takkāriya Jātaka.
• Takkaru Jātaka.-See Kakkaru Jātaka.
• Takkasilā
• Takkasilā Jātaka.-Apparently another name for the Telapatta Jātaka. See J.i.970; DhA.iv.83.
• Takkivīmamsi.-The name of a class of brahmins who might be described as sophists und researchers. M.ii.211.
• Takkola.-A town erwähnt in the Milindapañha (p.359) as a great centre of trade.
• Tālacatukka.-A place included in the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra. Mbv.135.
• Tālacchiggalūpama Sutta. Es ist übertliefert, dass der Prinz Abhayarājakumāra nach dem Hören dieser Sutte den Stromeintritt (sotāpanna) erreichte (ThagA.i.83). Es ist wahrscheinlich die Sutte mit der Schildkröte und dem schwimmenden Joch. Cp. M.129, und Chiggala Sutta, S.56.47.
• Talangarasamuddapabbata. Mentioned in the Rasavāhinī (ii. 50) as the residence of Mahādhammadinna. It is probably the same as Talangara (q.v.).
• Tālaphaliya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he saw the Pacceka Buddha Sataramsī und gave him a palm-fruit (Ap.ii.447). He is probably identical mit Sambulakaccāyana. ThagA.i.314.
• Tālapitthika-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, where Gopakasīvali built a cetiya. VibhA. p.156.
• Tālaputa
• Talaputa.-See Tālaputa above.
• Talatādevī
• Tālavana.-See Nālapana ??.
• Tālavantadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he gave a fan made of palm leaf to the Buddha Tissa. Sixty-three kappas ago he became König several times under the name of Mahārāma. Ap.i.211.
• Tālavatthu-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. It was restored by Aggabodhi V., who also gave to it the village of Pannabhatta. He appears to have renamed the village Mahāsena, probably after its original founder. Cv.xlviii.8; Cv.Trs.i.111, n.1.
• Tālavelimagga
• Tālayūrunādu.-A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
• Tālipabbata.-The brahmin who accompanied Mahā Arittha on his embassy from Ceylon to the court of Asoka. MT.302.
• Tālissara.-A descendant of König Dīpankara, who ruled in Takkasilā. Dpv.iii.32.
• Tamālapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he owned a vimāna mit eighty tausend golden pillars. He offered a tamāla flower to Sikhī Buddha. Twenty kappas ago he was a König called Candatittha. Ap.i.197.
• Tāmalinda.-One of the four companions of Chapata und a founder of the Sīhalasangha in Burma (Sās., p.65). He later founded a sect of his own. Bode: op. cit.24.
• Tāmalitti (Tāmalitthi)
• Tamba
• Tambadāthika
• Tambapanni
• Tambapittha.-A village seven leagues to the east of Anurādhapura, on the banks of the Mahāvālukanadi. When Dutthagāmani made plans to build the Mahā Thūpa, nuggets of gold appeared in Tambapittha. Mhv.xxviii.16.
• Tambapupphiya
• Tambasumana
• Tam-jīvam-tam-sarīram Sutta.-One of the views which are held in the world, owing to the existence of the khandhas und the clinging to them. S.iii.215.
• Tamo Sutta.-The four types of people found in the world - those who, being in darkness, are bound for darkness, those who are in darkness, but are bound for light, etc. A.ii.85; cf. Pugg. p.51; und S.i.93, where the sutta is addressed to Pasenadi.
• Tamonuda.-A König of ninety-one kappas ago, a previous birth of Punnāgapupphiya. Ap.i.180; ThagA.i.213.
• Tamo-tama Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (Nr. 49) to the Puggala Sutta (3). See also Tamo Sutta above.
• Tāna Sutta.-The Buddha preaches the Refuge und the way thereto. S.iv.372.
• Tanasīva
• Tanaveli-vihāra.-A vihāra erected in Bījagāma by König Mahallaka-Nāga. v.l. Cānavela. Mhv.xxxv.125.
• Tandulanāli Jātaka (Nr.5)
• Tandulapāladvāra. Eines der Stadttore von Rājagaha. In der Nähe des Tores war der Wohnort des Brahmanen Dhānañjāni. M.97; MA.ii.795.
• Tanguttavanka-parivena.-A monastery, probably in Ceylon; the residence of Ratthapāla, author of the original of the Rasavāhinī. P.L.C.224. The Parivena was attached to the Mahāvihāra. Ras.i.1.
• Tanhā Sutta
• Tanhā Vagga.-The zwanzig-fourth chapter of the Dhammapada.
• Tanhā.-One of the three daughters of Māra, who tried to tempt the Buddha under the Ajapāla-nigrodha, soon after the Enlightenment. SN. p.163; S.i.124f; J.i.78, 469; DhA.i.252; iii.196, 199.
• Tanhakkhaya Sutta
• Tanhankara.-One of the four Buddhas born in the same kappa as Dipankara. J.i.44; Bu.xxvii.1.
• Tanhāsankhaya Sutta.-See Cūla° und Mahā°.
• Tankitamañca
• Tapakannika.-See Tavakannika.
• Tāpana
• Tapana.-A Niraya. Beings born there are pierced by heated stakes und they remain transfixed, motionless. J.v.266, 271, 275.
• Tāpana.-See Tapana above.
• Tapassī.-An envoy sent by the König of Rāmañña to Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.23.
• Tapassu (Tapussa) Sutta
• Tapassu, Tapussa
• Tapodā
• Tapodakandarā.-See Tapodārāma.
• Tapodārāma
• Tapodāvātthu.-The story of Moggallāna explaining the reason for the warmth of the water of the Tapodā und of the refusal of the monks to believe him (Vin.iii.108; Sp.ii.512).
• Tapo-kammañca Sutta.-As the Buddha sits under the Ajapālanigrodha tree, soon after the Enlightenment, rejoicing in freedom from toil, Māra approaches und tells him that his purity is but a delusion. The Buddha rebukes him und proves him to be wrong. S.i.103.
• Tapovana.-A group of monasteries near Anurādhapura inhabited by the Pamsukūlikas. They lay in the forest district to the west of the city. Cv.lii.22; liii.14ff; also Cv.Trs.i.163, n.8.
• Tapussa.-See Tapassu.
• Taracchā
• Taraniya Thera
• Tarara.-A König of fifty-eight kappas ago, a former birth of Khadiravaniya Revata. Ap.i.51; ThagA.i.109.
• Tārukkha
• Taruna Sutta.-In him who contemplates the enjoyment of what makes for enfettering, craving grows und a consequent mass of dukkha, like a sapling which is well tended; but in him who contemplates misery in all enslaving things, craving, etc., is destroyed. S.ii.88f.
• Tasinā Sutta.-On the three thirsts - for sensual delights, for becoming und for ceasing to become - und the way to get rid of them (S.v.58).
• Tassa-Sutam Sutta
• Tatavāpi.-A locality near the Kālavāpi. There was a fortress there where Gokanna suffered defeat. Cv.lxx.165.
• Tatha Sutta 1.-There are four things that are true und unalterable - the facts of Dukkha, its arising, its cessation, the path thereto. S.v.430.
• Tatha Sutta 2.-The Four Noble Truths. Same as above. S.v.435.
• Tatha.-A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.69; ApA.i.106.
• Tathāgata
• Tathāgata Sutta.-A group of suttas in which the simile of the Tathāgata, being the chief of all creatures, is repeated. S.v.41ff; repeated at v.135.
• Tathāgatena-vutta Sutta
• Tathāgatuppatti.  A Pāli work by Ñānagambhīra. Gv. 62, 72.
• Tatojasi.-A messenger of Vessavana. D.iii.201.
• Tatolā, Tatotalā, Tattalā.-Messengers of Vessavana. D.iii.201.
• Tavakannīka, Tavannika, Tavakinnoka
• Tāvatimsa
• Tāyana
• Tāyana Sutta.-Records the visit of Tāyana to the Buddha.
• Tayodhamma Jātaka (Nr.58)
• Tebhātika-Jatilā.-Three brothers, Uruvela-Kassapa, Gayā-Kassapa und Nadī-Kassapa. For their story see Uruvela-Kassapa.
• Tejasi.-One of the messengers employed by Kuvera. D.iii.201.
• Tejodipa.-A disciple of Tilokaguru und author of a tīkā on the Paritta. Sās., p.115.
• Tekicchakārī (°kāni) Thera
• Tekula (?).-A thera who, mit his brother Yamelu, asked from the Buddha permission to translate the Buddha's teachings into Sanskrit. Vin.ii.139.
• Tela.-One of the ambassadors sent by Devānampiyatissa to Asoka. v.l. Malla. MT.302.
• Telagāma.-A canal, the revenue from which was given by Aggabodhi IX. to the monks for their rice gruel. Cv.xlix.89.
• Telakandarikā.-A pious und generous woman, who gave ghee in large quantities to monks. She is erwähnt in a story illustrating how monks will sometimes boast of their patrons. VbhA.483; Vsm.27.
• Telakāni Thera
• Telakatāhagāthā
• Telamakkhiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he rubbed oil on the vedikā of Siddhattha Buddha's Bodhi-tree. Twenty-four kappas ago he was a König named Succhavi. Ap.i.230f.
• Telapakkanijjhara.-A weir forming part of the irrigation work carried out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.66.
• Telapatta Jātaka (Nr.96)
• Telappanāli
• Telavāhā.-A river in the Serivarattha, und near Andhapura (J.i.111).
• Telovāda Jātaka (Nr.246)
• Telumapāli.-A place through which the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra passed. Mbv.135.
• Temiya Jātaka.-See Mūgapakkha Jātaka.
• Temiya.-The name of the Bodhisatta in the Mūgapakkha Jātaka. He was so called because on the day of his birth there were great rains throughout the kingdom und he was born wet. J.vi.3.
• Tenkongu.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.288; lxxvii.67.
• Tesakuna Jātaka (Nr.521)
• Tevijja Sutta
• Tevijja-Vacchagotta Sutta
• Thambāropaka Thera
• Thāna Sutta
• Thapana Sutta.-Ten reasons for establishing the Pātimokkha. A.v.70f.
• Thapatayo Sutta
• Thera Sutta
• Thera Vagga
• Thera.-Name of a monk in Rājagaha. He lived in solitude, the virtues of which state he extolled. Hearing this, the Buddha sent for him und taught him how the solitary life could be perfected in detail (S.ii.282f).
• Theragāthā
• Therambalaka Vihāra.-A monastery built by Sakka. Dāthāsena lived there. Ras.ii.109.
• Therambatthala
• Theranāma Sutta.-Records the story of the Elder named Thera. S.ii.282f.
• Therānambandhamālaka.-A locality in Anurādhapura where Uttiya erected the funeral pyre of Mahinda. Later he erected a thūpa there over half the remains (Mhv.xx.42f).
• Therapañha Sutta.-See Sāriputta Sutta.
• Therāpassaya-parivena.-A building erected on the spot where Mahinda used to meditate, leaning against a support. Mhv.xv.210.
• Theraputtābhaya
• Theraputtābhaya.-The Rasavāhinī (ii.92f.) contains a story of his youth when he was a novice in Kappakandara-vihāra. Gothayimbara visited the place und ate the coconuts, throwing the husks about. The novice beat him soundly.
• Theravāda
• Therīgāthā
• Therikā
• Theriya-parampāra.-The name given to the succession of Theravāda monks. Mhv.v.1.
• Thitañjaliya
• Thiti Sutta
• Thomadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a deva, und having heard Vipassī Buddha preach, paid him homage. Ap.i.226.
• Thūlathana
• Thullakotthita
• Thulla-Nandā
• Thulla-Tissā
• Thulla-Tissa.-See Tissa (14).
• Thulū.-See Bumū.
• Thūna
• Thūneyyakā.-The people of Thūna.
• Thūpāraha Sutta.-There are four persons worthy of a thūpa - a Buddha, a Pacceka Buddha, a Buddha's disciple und a Cakkavatti. A.ii.245.
• Thūpārāma
• Thūpasikha (Thūpasikhara).-Ninety-four kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, all previous births of Thambhāropaka (Paripunnaka). Ap.i.171; ThagA.i.190.
• Thūpavamsa.-A Pāli poem written by Vācissara. It has sixteen chapters, the last eight of which contain a description of the erection of the Mahā Thūa by Dutthagāmani at Anurādhapura. The work probably belongs to the twelfth century. P.L.C.216f.
• Thūpavitthi-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon built by Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
• Thusa Jātaka (Nr.338)
• Thusavatthi.-A village in Ceylon where König Buddhadāsa effected a miraculous cure (Cv.xxxvii.124f). It was near Anurādhapura, und the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra passed through it (Mbv.136).