Pali Proper Names - G -

• Gadāvudha
• Gaddula Sutta
• Gadrabha
• Gadrabhakula.-Mentioned as one of the families in which horses are born. Valāhaka horses are not born in this family. MA.i.248.
• Gadrabhapañha
• Gagga
• Gagga-Jātaka (No.155)
• Gaggaligāma.-A village built by Mahosadha on the further side of the Ganges; there he stationed his elephants, horses, cattle, etc., while he bad the great tunnel constructed (J.vi.431).
• Gaggarā-(Sutta)
• Gaggaravāliya-angana.-A locality in Ceylon. The Elder Pītamalla resided there with thirty other monks. DA.iii.749; the reading in the P.T.S. edition (gāravakaranāya) is wrong.
• Gahapati-Jātaka (No.199)
• Gahapati-Vagga
• Gahvaratīra.-The name of the place where the Thera Gahvaratīriya lived (ThagA.i.91f).
• Gahvaratīriya (Gavharatīriya) Thera
• Gajabāhu, Gajabhuja
• Gajabhuja
• Gajakumbha Jātaka (No.345)
• Gajakumbhakapāsāna.-A locality in Ceylon, through which passed the Sīmā marked out by Devānampiyatissa for the Mahā Vihāra. Mhv., p.332, v.12; Dpv.xiv.35; Mbv.135.
• Gajjabāhukagāmani
• Gajjagiri.-A mountain in Aparantaka. Sās.35.
• Galambatittha
• Gālhagangā.-A river in South Ceylon which was once decreed to be the boundary of Rohana. It is generally identified with Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.xlviii.132; Cv. Trs.i.122, n.4.
• Gallakapītha.-A village in Ceylon. Five hundred youths from the village were ordained by Mahinda, soon after his arrival in Ceylon. Mhv.xvii.59.
• Gālurajju.-A river in South Ceylon. Cv.lxxv.34; see also Cv. Trs.147, n.1.
• Gāmakasetthi.-The name, of the treasurer whose daughter was married by Ghosakasetthi. AA.i.230; the DhA. account does not mention the man's name.
• Gāmanī
• Gāmani-Canda Jātaka (No.257)
• Gāmani-Canda.-A servant of Janasandha, king of Benares. For his story see the Gāmani-Canda Jātaka.
• Gāmani-Jātaka (No.8).-The story of Prince Gāmanī (J.i.136f). For details see the Samvara Jātaka.
• Gāmani-Samyutta.-The fifty-second Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. It contains accounts of sermons preached by the Buddha to various headmen (gāmanī) (S.iv.305-59).
• Gāmanitissa.-A tank made by King Gajabāhu and given for the maintenance of the Abhayagiri-vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.120.
• Gāmanivāpi.-A tank near Anurādhapura. Near it was a hermitage built by Pandukābhaya. Mhv.x.96; see Mhv.Trs., p.75, n.1.
• Gāmantā.-See Mahā Sīva (2), also Vāmatna ??.
• Gāmantapabbhāravāsī Mahā Sīva.-See Mahā Sīva.
• Gambhīra 1.-A seaport village, visited by Mittavindaka in the course of his flight from Benares. J.i.239.
• Gambhīra 2.-A channel branching off from the Parakkama Samudda. It started at the point of the flood-escape known as Makara. Cv.lxxix.40.
• Gambhīracāri.-The name of one of the two otters in the Dabbha-puppha Jātaka (q.v.). J.iii.333.
• Gambhīranadī.-A river, one yojana north of Anurādhapura; the bricks for the Mahā Thūpa and for the Thupas of the three former Buddhas were prepared on its banks (Mhv.xxviii.7; MT.508). On its bank was Upatissagāma. Mhv.vii.44.
• Gambhīra-Satta.-Four conditions - following after the good, hearing the Dhamma, paying systematic attention thereto, and living in accordance with its precepts - which, if cultivated, lead to profound insight. S.v.412.
• Gāmendavālamahā-vihāra
• Gamika.-Father of the nun Mahātissā. Dpv.xviii.39.
• Gamitthavāli Vihāra.-A monastery in Rohana, founded by Kākavanna-Tissa. Mhv.xxii.23.
• Ganadevaputtā
• Ganaka-Moggallāna
• Ganaka-Moggallāna-Sutta
• Ganakaputta-Tissa Thera.-Probably a Commentator. Buddhaghosa quotes him in the Anguttara Commentary (AA.i.439) as explaining the term tisa-hassīmahāsahassī differently from the commonly accepted interpretation.
• Ganānanda-Parivena.-A monastery at Rājagāma in Ceylon, the residence of the Elder Maittreya Mahā Thera. P.L.C.248.
• Ganapeta-Vatthu.-The story of a large number of people of Sāvatthi who, because of their misdeeds, had been born as petas. Pv.iv.10; PvA.269f.
• Ganatissa.-Son of Panduvāsudeva (Mbv.112). According to the Rājāvaliya, he reigned as king for forty years. See also Cv. Trs.ii.Introd. p.ix.
• Ganda
• Gandābharana.-A book composed by Ariyavamsa. v.l. Gandhā-bharana. Gv.65, 75; Sās., p.98.
• Gandāladoni.-A monastery in Ceylon, near the modern Kandy. The stucco work of the vihāra was carried out by Parakkamabāhu VI. Cv.xci.30.
• Gandamba
• Ganda-Sutta.-The body is like a festering sore (ganda), full of pus, with nine openings, constantly exuding matter. A.iv.386f.
• Gandatindu Jātaka (No.520)
• Gandha (Sutta)
• Gandhabbā
• Gandhabba.-An attendant of King Eleyya and a follower of Uddaka Rāmaputta. A.ii.180.
• Gandhabbadvāra.-One of the gates of Pulatthipura. Cv.lxxiii.163.
• Gandhabbakāya Samyutta.-The thirty-first chapter of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.249-53.
• Gandhabbakāyikā.-See Gandhabbā.
• Gandhabbarājā.-The name given to Sakka in the Vidhurapandita Jātaka (J.vi.260).
• Gandhābhārana.-See Gandābharana.
• Gandhabhava.-See Bhadragaka.
• Gandhagata.-See Bhadragaka.
• Gandhakuti
• Gandhamādana
• Gandhamāliya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he offered to the Buddha Siddhattha a gandha-thūpa covered with sumana-flowers. Forty kappas ago he became king, sixteen times, under the name of Devagandha. Ap.i.135.
• Gandhamutthiya Thera.-An arahant. One hundred thousand kappas ago he gave a handful of perfume for the construction of a (Buddha's) funeral pyre. Ap.i.292; cp. Gandhapūjaka.
• Gandhapūjaka Thera.-An arahant. In the past he put a handful of perfume on the funeral pyre of the Buddha (Padumuttara) (Ap.ii.406). He is probably identical with Hārita. ThagA.i.376.
• Gandhāra
• Gandhāra Jātaka (No.406)
• Gandhāra- or Gandhārī-vijjā
• Gandhāra.-A mountain in Himavā. J.vi.579.
• Gandhārarājā.-The king of Gandhāra is several times mentioned by this name; it is evidently a title and not a proper name. E.g., J.i.191; ii.219f.; iii.364ff; iv.98.
• Gandhāravagga.-The second chapter of the Sutta Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary (J.iii.363-421).
• Gandhathūpiya Thera.-An arahant, probably identical with Gandha-māliya (q.v.). The same verses are attributed to both. Ap.i.267.
• Gandhavamsa
• Gandhavilepana Sutta.-Few are those who abstain from flowers, scents, etc.; many are those who do not. S.v.471.
• Gandhodaka (-kadāyaka) Thera
• Gandhodakiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vipassī and sprinkled perfumed water on him. Thirty-one kappas ago he became king, under the name of Sugandha (Ap.i.157f). He is probably identical with ātuma Thera. ThagA.i.160f.
• Gandimitta.-See Kanhamitta.
• Gangā
• Gangādoni.-A hill in the Manimekhala district in Ceylon. The general Sankha founded a city there during Māgha's invasion. The hill was only two yojanas away from Māgha's capital, but provided quite a safe retreat. Cv.lxxxi.7f.
• Gangalatittha.-A ford on the Kadamba-nadī near Anurādhapura. It was the starting-point of the boundary line which Devānampiyatissa laid down for the Mahā Vihāra. MT.361; cf. Mbv.136.
• Gangamāla Jātaka (No.421)
• Gangamāla.-A barber who later became a Pacceka Buddha. See Gangamāla Jātaka.
• Gangāmāti Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, to which Jetthatissa III. gave Keheta as its maintenance village. Cv.xliv.99.
• Gangāpeyyāla
• Gangarājī.-A district to the east of Anurādhapura, where Kanittha-tissa built the Anulatissapabbata Vihāra. Mhv.xxxvi.15.
• Gangārāma.-Also called Rājamahā Vihāra, a monastery founded by Kittisirirājasīha on the bank of the Mahāvāluka-gangā near Kandy (Cv.c.202). There Rājādhīrājasīha erected a cetiya. Cv.ci.17.
• Gangārohana Sutta
• Gangārohana Vatthu.-The account of the Buddha's visit to Vesāli which he paid in order to preach the Ratana Sutta (qx.). DhA.iii.436ff.
• Gangāsenakapabbata Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon built by Mahāsena (Mhv.xxxvii.41).
• Gangāsiripura.-The Pāli name for the town of Gampola in Ceylon (Cv.xxxxvi.18). In it was an ancient vihāra, the Nigamaggāmapāsāda (Cv.lxxxviii.48). Bhuvaneka-bāhu IV. made it his capital. Cv.xc.107.
• Gangā-Sutta.-Preached to a brahmin at Veluvana. Incalculable is the beginning of Samsāra, incalculable the aeons that have passed by, like the sands of the Gangā. S.ii.153.
• Gangātata, Gangātataka, Gangātalāka
• Gangātīriya Thera
• Gangā-tissa.-See Ariyagāla-tissa.
• Gangā-Vīci.-One of the four kinds of waves that rise in the sea. Each wave of this class rises to a height of fifty leagues. VibhA.502.
• Gangeyya
• Gangeyya Jātaka (No.205)
• Ganthākara-parivena.-A dwelling attached to the Mahāvihāra at Anurādhapura, where Buddhaghosa stayed during his sojourn in Ceylon and where he wrote his Commentaries (Cv.xxxvii.243). The parivena was restored by Kassapa V. Cv.lii.57.
• Ganthambatittha.-A ford in the Mahāvālukagangā. There an uda-kakkhepasīmā was erected by Vimaladhammasūriya I (Cv.xciv.17). The name is the Pāli equivalent for the Sinhalese Gātambé.
• Ganthimāna.-A village in Ceylon, given by Parakkamabāhu IV. for the maintenance of the temple at Devapura (Devanagara). Cv.xc.95.
• Ganthipupphiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he gave a ganthi-flower to the Buddha Vipassī. Forty-one kappas ago he was a king named Varana (Ap.i.162). He is probably identical with Hatthārohaputta. ThagA.i.170.
• Ganthisāra.-A book composed by Saddhammajotipāla; it is evidently an anthology or manual composed from important texts. Bode, op. cit., p.18; Gv. (p.64) calls it Gandhasāra.
• Garahadinna
• Garahita-Jātaka (No.219)
• Garahitapitthipāsāna.-See Garahita Jātaka.
• Gārava-Sutta
• Garītara.-A tank in Ceylon constructed by Moggallāna II, by damming the Kadambanadī. Cv.xli.61.
• Garudā, Garulā
• Garula.-One of the palaces occupied by Phussa Buddha in his last lay-life (Bu.xix.15). The Commentary (BuA.192) calls it Garulapakkha.
• Gatārāparivena.-A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Upatapassī, author of the Vuttamālā. PLC.253.
• Gatasaññaka Thera
• Gāthā
• Gatikathā.-The sixth section of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidā-magga. Ps.ii.73-8.
• Gatimba.-See Mahāgatimba.
• Gatipacchedana.-A king of eighty-four kappas ago; a previous birth of Sammukhāthavika (Ap.i.159) (or Mānava). ThagA.i.163.
• Gatipakarana.-A book composed by a thera of Pakudhanagara. Gv.65; but see p.75, where the author is said to belong to Ceylon.
• Gati-Sutta.-The five conditions of birth - in purgatory, among lower animals, petas, men or devas. A.iv.459.
• Gatiyopañcaka Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Sacca Samyutta and the last chapter of the Samyutta Nikaya. S.v.474f.
• Gavaccha.-See Cūla-Gavaccha and Mahā-Gavaccha.
• Gavaghātaka Sutta.-Moggallāna reports to the Buddha that, while descending Gijjhakūta, he saw a vast lump of flesh flying through the air. The Buddha says it was a cattle butcher of Rājagaha, born as a peta. S.ii.256.
• Gavampati (Sutta)
• Gavapāna.-The name of a special almsgiving held in honour of Mangala Buddha by the Bodhisatta, when he was born as the brabmin Suruci. The chief item of food was a kind of pudding made of milk, rice and honey. Bu.iv.11; BuA.122.
• Gavara.-A Tamil general of Dona, subdued by Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxv.11.
• Gavaratissa Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, built by King Bhātika-Tissa, who also constructed for its maintenance the Mahāmani tank. Mhv.xxxvi.3.
• Gavaravāliya-angana.-A monastic establishment in Ceylon, the residence of Pitamalla Thera and thirty others. MA.i.190.
• Gavesī
• Gavesī-Sutta.-The story of Gavesī.
• Gavha.-See Gahva ??.
• Gayā
• Gayā-Kassapa
• Gayāsīsa
• Gayā-Sutta
• Gayātittha, Gayā-phaggu, -phaggunī, Gayā-phaggunītittha.-See Gayā (2).
• Gāyikā.-One of the four wives of Candakumāra. J.vi.148.
• Gedha-Sutta.-See Anussati Sutta.
• Gelañña-Sutta
• Getthumba.-A canal. The taxes paid for the use of its water for tillage were given by Mahinda III. for the repairs of the Ratanapāsāda. Cv.xlix.41.
• Geyya.-The second section of the Tipitaka arranged according to matter (angavasena). It includes all the suttas composed in verse, especially the whole Sagāthakavagga of the Samyutta Nikāya. DA.i.23f.