Pali Proper Names - P -

• Pāra Sutta. The Buddha teaches of the further shore (beyond samsāra) and 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 and 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 (E.g., J.ii.333; vi.427), to be exiled into which was a great punishment. E.g., 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 five divisions of the Pātimokkha.
• Parakkama
• Parakkamabāhu
• Parakkamabāhupāsāda. A monastic building attached to the Valligāma vihāra and erected by Parakkamabāhu IV. Cv.xc.96.
• Parakkamapandu. One of the three Virapperayaras whom Lankāpura won over with gifts to alliance with Vīrapandu. Cv.lxxvii.6.
• Parakkamapura
• Parakkamasāgara. A tank built by Parakkamabāhu I. It was connected with 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 with excellent food. Ap.i.249.
• Paramarāja. A king 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 and Jambukhādaka on what constitutes supreme comfort. S.ii.254; cp.iv.261.
• Paramatta. A Brahmā who was present at the Mahāsamaya. D.ii.260.
• Paramatthabindu. A grammatical work on Pāli, by King Kyocvā of Pagan. There is a Tīkā on it by Mahā Kassapa. Bode, op. cit., 25.
• Paramatthadīpa. Another name for the Khemappakarana (q.v.).
• Paramatthadīpanī 1. Dhammapāla's Commentary on the Udānā, Itivuttaka, Vimānavatthu, Petavatthu, Theragāthā and Therīgāthā (Gv.60). It seems also to have been called Vimalavilāsinī. P.L.C.114, n.4.
• Paramatthadīpanī 2.-The name given to the Pañcappakaratthakathā. SadS.60.
• Paramatthajotikā. Buddhaghosa's Commentary on the Khuddakapātha, Dhammapada, Sutta Nipāta and Jātaka.
• Paramatthaka Sutta
• Paramatthamañjūsā 1. Dhammapāla’s Commentary (Tīkā) on the Visuddhi-Magga. P.L.C.113.
• Paramatthamañjūsā 2. An Abhidhamma treatise by Vepullabuddhi. Bode, op. cit., 28.
• Paramatthapakāsinī.-The name given to the Mūlatikā on the Abhidhamma-Pitaka written in Ceylon under Mahā Kassapa. SadS.60.
• Paramatthavinicchaya. A treatise on the Abhidhamma written by Anuruddha of Kāñcipura. There exists a Tīkā on it by Māhābodhi Thera. P.L.C.173f.; Gv.61,71; Svd.1226, 1230; Sās.69. It was written at the request of Sangha-rakkhita. Gv.71.
• Pāramīmahāsataka. A Pāli poem of one hundred verses, in twelve sections, dealing with the ten pāramitā, written by Dhammakitti Sangharāja. The poem is based on the Jātaka and 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 and its cessation, because that is fruitful. S.ii.222f.
• Parangī. The Pāli name for the Portuguese, who invaded Ceylon. E.g., 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 king four times under the name of Uggata (Ap.i.113f). He is probably identical with Bhūta Thera. ThagA.i.494.
• Parasamuddavāsī Therī.-Referred to in the Commentaries (e.g., 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
• Paribbājaka Sutta
• Paribbājaka Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Majjhima Nikāya, containing suttas 71 80. M.i.481ff.
• Paribhutta.-A city in the time of Sikhī Buddha, where the Bodhisatta was born as King 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, and delusion, and want of wisdom in profound matters. A.ii.143f.
• Parijāna (or Abhijāna) Sutta. By not thoroughly knowing or understanding the five khandhas one is unfit for the destruction of suffering. S.iii.26f.
• Parijānana Sutta. Without comprehending and detaching himself from the all   eye, nose, etc.   a man is incapable of extinguishing suffering. S.iv.17.
• Pārikā, Pārī. A hunter's daughter, wife of Dukūlaka and mother 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 mother, father, or arahant, maliciously draw blood from the Buddha, or create dissension in the Order. A.iii.146.
• Parilāha Sutta. Not to understand dukkha and 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, and the Buddha, reading the thoughts of certain monks, preached a sermon on the destruction of the āsavas by the full realization of impermanence and 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" and "mine" and as "self" will not have a hereafter. S.iii.165.
• Parinda. A Damila usurper, son of King Pandu. He ruled in Anurādhapura for three years between 433 and 460, and 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 and 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 king 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 and on how they can be completely exhausted. S.iv.33f.
• Pariyāya Sutta
• Pariyesanā Sutta. On four quests that are un Ariyan and four that are Ariyan. A.ii.247.
• Parosahassa Jātaka (No. 99)
• Parosahassa Sutta. Relates how once, when the Buddha was at Jetavana with twelve hundred and fifty monks, instructing them and 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 (No. 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, daughter of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.Ix.84.
• Pāsādika Sutta
• Pāsāna Sutta. Once when the Buddha was in Gijjhakūta on a dark and 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 and on water. The first is easily angered and 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 and Udāyī. A.iv.455.
• Passī. A Pacceka Buddha mentioned 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 and wailing and lamentation. S.iv.206f.
• Pātali or Mānapa Sutta. A series of discussions between Pātali and the Buddha, on various topics. S.iv.340ff.
• Pātali
• 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 king named Abhisammata. Ap.i.122f.
• Pātaliputta peta
• Pātaliputta. A Paribbājaka; see Potaliputta, for which it is a wrong reading.
• Pātaliputtaka brahmin
• Patāpa. A mythical king, descendant of Mahāsammata. His father was Mahāruci (or Suruci) and 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, mentioned 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 and the king'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 king of ninety one kappas ago, a previous birth of Mānava (Sammukhāthavika). ThagA.i.163; Ap.i.159.
• Pathavindhara 1. A Nāga king, a previous birth of Rāhula. AA.i.142, etc.; but see s.v. Rāhula.
• Pathavindhara 2. Son of Kiki, king 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 and 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 and flattery. They tempt even a man, otherwise incorruptible, to lie for the sake of a silver bowl filled with gold dust, or a golden bowl filled with 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 and 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; and three others which are there for all to see: the sun, the moon, and 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 and 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
• Patikkūla Sutta. The idea of the repulsiveness of food, if cultivated and encouraged, conduces to great profit. S.v.132.
• Patikolamba. A cook. He refused to listen to Sattigumba who suggested killing the Pañcāla king (J.iv.431f.). See the Sattigumba Jātaka.
• Patilābha Sutta. A description of the five indriyas. S.v.199f.
• Patilīna Sutta. A monk, who has shaken off various speculations, has given up searching for sense pleasures and going on other quests and has obtained calm by abandoning pleasure and 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 and 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 and 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, and there preached to a large congregation. Māra warned the Buddha not to teach, lest he should suffer both from the zeal of his supporters and 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.
• 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 five indriyas. S.v.232.
• Patiyāloka. A place near Rājagaha. Vin.iv.79, 131.
• Patiyārāma. The name of the Thūpārāma in the time of Kakusandha Buddha. Sp.i.86; Dpv.xvii.11.
• Patoda Sutta. Four kinds of thoroughbred steeds in the world and 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 and 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) and 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," and deals with the twenty four paccayas or modes of relations between things, mental and 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, and one day, when wandering in the forest with his basket of rice, he saw the Buddha (Siddhattha?) and 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 five daughters of Vessavana, appointed, with 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 (No. 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 and together able to penetrate the spirit and the letter of the Dhamma. A.i.151.
• Pavesana Sutta. Ten evil results of a monk visiting the king'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 with milk rice to Vipassī Buddha. Forty one kappas ago he was a king named Buddha (Ap.i.157). He is probably identical with Vacchapāla Thera. ThagA.i.159f.
• Pāyāsi
• Payogasiddhi. A Pāli grammatical work, belonging to the Moggallāna school, by Vanaratana Medhankara. P.L.C.230f.