Pali Proper Names - A -

• Ātānātā.-A city in Uttarakuru, mentioned with Kusinātā, Parakusinātā and Nātāpuriyā (D.iii.200).
• Ātānātiya Sutta
• Ātappa Sutta
• Atappā-devā
• Atarandā-mahābhodikkhandha.-A village in Rohana where the forces of Dhamilādhikāri destroyed the rebels. Cv.lxxv.97.
• Atata
• Athabbana (āthabbana)
• Athalayunnāda.-A district in S. India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
• Athalayūru-nadālvāra.-A Damila chieftain. Cv.lxxvi.140, 260; lxxvii.27.
• Aticāri Sutta.-That an adulteress is born in purgatory. S.iv.242.
• Atideva.-The Bodhisatta born as a Brahmin in the time of Revata Buddha. Having heard the Buddha preach he gave him his upper garment (J.i.35; Bu.vi.10; Mbv.10). He belonged to Rammavatī. BuA.134.
• Atimbara.-Minister of Dūtthagāmani. SdS.77.
• Atimuttaka
• Atimuttaka-sāmanera Vatthu.-See Atimuttaka (2).
• Atinivāsa Sutta.-The five evil results of long dwelling (atinivāsa). A.iii.258.
• Atipandita.-The Bodhisatta was once born as the son of a merchant family in Benares and was named Pandita. He entered into partnership with another man, named Atipandita, who tried to deceive him but in vain. J.i.405f.
• Atītānāgatapneuppanna Suttas.-Three in number. Seeing that the sankhāras are (1) impermanent, (2) ill, and (3) without the self, the Ariyan disciple cares not for what is past, is not in love with the present and seeks dispassion for the future. S.iii.19-20.
• Atītena Sutta.-Seeing that the eye, ear, etc., of the past are impermanent, the Ariyan disciple should cease desiring them. S.iv.151.
• Atitti Sutta.-There is no satiety in sleep, in drinking liquor and in sexual intercourse. A.i.261.
• Atta Sutta 1.-Self-possession is the forerunner of the Eightfold Path. S.v.36.
• Atta Sutta 2.-The self-possessed monk develops the Eightfold Path. S.v.37.
• Attadanda Sutta
• Attadattha Thera
• Attadīpa Sutta.-Monks should be refuges unto themselves, the Dhamma should be their refuge. They should seek for the very source of things in the impermanence of the five Khandhas. S.iv.42f.
• Attadīpa Vagga.-Of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.iii.42ff), contains ten suttas on the nature of the body and the self.
• Attahita Sutta.-Three suttas on the four kinds of people in the world: bent on their own profit; on another's profit; on the profit of both; on the profit of neither. A.ii.97ff.
• Attakāra Sutta.-On individuality and non-individuality; preached in answer to a brahmin's questions. A.iii.337f.
• Attakarana Sutta.-See Atthakarana Sutta.
• Attālhidhātusena Vihāra.-A monastery built by King Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.49.
• Attantāpa Sutta.-On the self-tormentor who practices various austerities, and the tormentor of others - butcher, fisherman, etc. and those who, like some kings, torment both themselves and others. A.ii.203ff.
• Attānuvāda Sutta.-On the four kinds of fears: fear of self-reproach, of others' reproach, of punishment, and of woeful state. A.ii.121f.
• Atta-piya Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 46) for Piya Sutta (2).
• Atthadassī
• Atthaka
• Atthakāma Vagga.-The fifth section of Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.i.234-61.
• Atthaka Nipata.-The eight book of the Anguttara Nikāya.
• Atthaka-nāgara Sutta
• Atthakanagara.-A city, from which came the householder Dasama who, while on a visit to Pātaliputta on business, went to see Ananda at Beluvagāma and questioned him (M.i.349f.; A.v.342-7). The conversation is recorded in the Atthaka-nāgara Sutta.
• Atthakarana Sutta
• Atthakathācariyā.-Composers (?) of the Commentaries. They lived prior to Buddhaghosa, because he refers to them. E.g., AA.i.273.
• Atthakathā-Thera.-Mentioned in the Dīgha Commentary (iii.728) as being capable of solving the doubts that arose in the mind of Mahā Sīvali Thera of the village hermitage.
• Atthaka-Vagga/Sutta
• Atthakula Sutta.-The reasons why certain families, having attained great possessions, fail to last long. A.ii.249f.
• Atthama.-Pacceka Buddha, one of the names given in a list of such. M.iii.70; ApA.i.106.
• Atthana Jātaka
• Atthāna Vagga.-A group of the "impossibilities"; examples of such are the simultaneous existence of two Buddhas, or the following of a good result from an evil deed. A.i.26-30.
• Atthānaparikappa Sutta
• Atthangika (Magga) Sutta
• Atthapuggala Sutta.-Two suttas on the eight persons who are worthy of homage and of gifts. A.iv.292, 293.
• Atthasadda Jātaka
• Atthasahassa.-A district of Rohana in Ceylon (Cv.lxi.24; lxxv.154) to the east of the modern Valaveganga. See Geiger, Cv. trans., i.227, n.4.
• Atthasālinī
• Atthasandassaka Thera
• Atthasata Sutta (°Pariyaya).-Method of describing the 108 feelings - thirty-six each of the past, present and future. S.iv.231.
• Atthassadvāra Jātaka (No. 84)
• Atthavasa Vagga.-The seventeenth chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i.98-100). It deals with the aims behind the Buddha's injunctions to monks with regard to the practice of samatha and vipassanā, to be employed as remedies against lust, etc.
• Atthavyākhyāna
• Atthika Sutta.-A group of suttas dealing with the benefits occurring from meditating on skeletons. S.v.129ff.
• Atthinukhopariyāya Sutta
• Atthipesī Sutta.-Preached about a pets, a mere skeleton, seen near Gijjhakūta by Moggallāna and Lakkhana. He had been a cattle-butcher in Rājagaha. S.ii.254.
• Atthipuñja Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 21) for Puggala Sutta (1).
• Atthirāga Sutta.-All existence is the result of attachment to the four kinds of food: kabalinkāra (solid food), phassa (contact), manosañcetanā (will), and viññāna (consciousness). This is explained with various similes. S.ii.101-4.
• Atthisena
• Atthisena Jātaka (No. 403)
• Atthissara.-The name under which Devadatta, having suffered for five parts of a kappa in purgatory, will become Pacceka Buddha. DhA.i.125; Mil.111.
• Attho Sutta.-See Virocana-asurinda Sutta (?).
• Atula
• Atulamba.-The mango tree produced by the juggler Bhandu-kanna to make Prince Mahāpanāda laugh. The mango is known as Vessavana's mango and it is impossible to approach it. J.iv.324; see also ii.397.
• Atulya.-King. A previous birth of Asanatthavika Thera. Twenty-seven kappas ago he was king seven times under this name. Ap.i.255.
• Ātumā
• Ātuma Thera
• Avakannaka.-Given in the Pācittiya rules' as an example of a low name (hīnanāma). Vin.iv.6ff.
• Avandiya.-A Damila chief who fought on the side of Kulasekhara against Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.146.
• Avantaphaladāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had given a fruit without a stalk (avanta) to a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsi. Ap.i.294.
• Avanti
• Āvantikā.-The name given to monks of Avanti who helped Yasa Kākandakaputta to overcome the heresy of the Vajjiputtakas. Mhv.iv.19ff.
• Avantiputta
• Āvarana Sutta.-There are five things that overwhelm the mind and weaken the insight: kāmacchanda, vyāpāda, thīnamiddha, uddhaccakukkucca and vicikicchā. A.iii.63-4.
• Āvarana-nīvarana Sutta.-(Also called Nīvaranāvarana). The five things, as above, which overwhelm the mind and weaken the insight and the seven bojjhangas which counteract them and conduce to the attainment of emancipation through knowledge. S.v.94-6.
• Āvaranatā Sutta
• Avāriya Jātaka (No. 376)
• Avāriya Vagga.-The first division of the Chakka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakatha (J.iii.228-74).
• Avāriyā.-Daughter of Avāriyapitā. J.iii.230.
• Avāriyapitā.-The ferryman of the Avāriya Jātaka.
• Avaroja
• Avaruddhaka
• Āvāsika Vagga.-The twenty-fourth chapter of the Pañaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It consists of ten suttas dealing with the qualities of a resident monk which make him worthy of honour and agreeable, or otherwise. A.iii.261-7.
• Avataphaliya Thera
• Āvattagangā
• Avavādakā
• Avela.-One of the palaces used by the Buddha Revata in his last lay-life. Bu.vi.17.
• Āvenika Sutta
• Āveyya.-A king of fifty-nine kappas ago, a former birth of Samādapaka Thera. (v.l. āvekkheyya). Ap.i.185.
• Avīci
• Avidūre Nidāna
• Avihā
• Avihimsā Sutta.-See Akodha Sutta.
• Avijjā Vagga/Sutta
• Avijjāpaccaya Sutta.-Two suttas. Conditioned by ignorance, activities (sankhārā) come to pass, and so on for each factor of the Paticcasamuppāda. S.ii.60-3.
• Avikakkā (v.l. for Adhikakkā).
• Avitakka Sutta
• Āvopupphiya Thera.-An arahant. He heard Sikhī Buddha preach and, being pleased with the sermon, threw a heap of flowers into the sky, above the Buddha, as an offering to him. Twenty kappas ago he became a king under the name of Sumedha (Ap.i.112).
• Avyādhika Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he built an aggi-sālā for Vipassī Buddha and a hospital and hot baths for the sick. Later, seven kappas ago, he was a king named Aparājita. Ap.i.215.
• Avyākata Samyutta.-The forty-fourth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.374.
• Avyākata Vagga
• Avyāpajjha Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the harmless and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
• Āyācana Sutta/Vagga
• Āyācitabhatta Jātaka (No. 19)
• Āyāgadāyaka Thera
• Ayakūta Jātaka (No. 347)
• Āyasmanta.-A general of King Sāhasamalla.
• Āyatana Sutta
• Ayoghara
• Ayoghara Jātaka (No. 510).-The story of Prince Ayoghara as given above. The story was told regarding the Buddha's Renunciation.  In the Jātakamālā the name appears as Ayogrha. Jātakamālā No. 32.
• Ayogula Sutta
• Ayojjhā
• Ayoniso (or Vitakkita) Sutta
• Āyu Sutta
• Āyupāla
• Āyupālā (āyupālī).-An arahant Therī, preceptor of Sanghamittā. Mhv.v.208; Sp.i.51.
• Āyūra
• Āyussa Sutta.-Two in number, on the five conditions (such as excessive eating), which do not bestow long life, and on the five conditions which do. A.iii.145.
• Āyuvaddhana Kumāra
• Ayyakā Sutta.-Pasenadī's grandmother died at the age of 120. He had been very fond of her, and would have done anything to have kept her. He was so grieved at her death that he came to the Buddha for consolation. The Buddha tells him that all creatures have to die. S.i.96ff.
• Ayyakā-kālaka
• Ayyamitta Thera
• Ayyamitta.-See Mahāmitta (?).
• Ayya-Uttiya.-(°ika)