Pali Proper Names

• Sedaka. See Desaka.

• Seggu. A greengrocer's daughter. See the Seggu Jātaka.
• Seggu-Jātaka (No. 217)
• Sehālauparājaka. A monastic building erected by Sanghatissa, uparāja of Aggabodhi IV. Cv.xlvi.24.
• Sejalaka. A vihāra to the cast of Anurādhapura, built by Mahallaka-Nāga. v.l. Pejalaka. Mhv.xxxv.124.
• Sekhabala Vagga. The first chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.1-9.
• Sekha-Sutta
• Sekhiyā. One of the sub divisions of the Pācittiya of the Sutta Vibhanga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.iv.185ff., 349ff.
• Sekīrapadma. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.76.
• Sela
• Selā
• Selantarasamūha. The name of a monastic building provided by the king of Ceylon (probably Mānavamma, Cv.lvii.37f.; Cv.Trs.i.196, n.2) for Dāthopatissa after his ordination. Later Yasodharā, daughter of Vijayabāhu I., erected there a building called the Pasādapāsāda. Cv.lx.84.
• Selantarāyatana. A monastery, evidently in Rohana. Nanda Thera was its chief incumbent in the time of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.10.
• Sela-Sutta. Records the visit of Sela (1) to the Buddha, his conversion, and attainment of arahantship. One part of the sutta deals with the Buddha's interview with Keniya, the Jatila. SN., p.102 ff. = M.i.146ff.
• Selā-Sutta. The story of Māra's unsuccessful temptation of Selā Therī (2). S.i.134.
• Selissariya. See Potiriya.
• Semponmāri. A place in South India. There was a fortress there which played a part in the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.241ff.
• Sena
• Senā 1. Queen of Udaya I. Cv.xlix.2.
• Senā 2. Daughter of Kassapa, yuvarāja of Udaya II. She married the king's brother's son. Cv.li.93.
• Senāgāma. A village and fortification near the Kālavāpi. It is mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. and was once the headquarters of his senāpati, Deva. Cv.lxx.131f., 245.
• Senaggabodhi. A shrine built by Sena I. on the Thusavāpi at Pulatthipura. Cv.l.73.
• Senaggabodhipabbata. A building erected in Vāhadīpa by Udaya I. Cv.xlix.33.
• Senaguttagāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.6.
• Senaka
• Senaka-Vagga. The second chapter of the Chakka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.iii.276-316.
• Senāmagāma. A village given by Dāthopatissa II. to the Kassapa-vihāra. Cv.xlv.27.
• Senānātha-parivena. Evidently identical with the Senasenāpati-parivena (q.v.). Vijayabāhu IV. appointed the Thera of the parivena in charge of the restoration of the Ratanavāli-cetiya. Cv.lxxxviii.85.
• Senānī. A wealthy landowner of Senānīnigama; he was the father of Sujātā. J.i.68; BuA.238.
• Senānīnigama
• Senāpatigumbaka. The name given to the spot to which the general of Pandukābhaya's uncles fled when the latter were defeated. Mhv.x.71.
• Senaratana
• Senāsanakkhandha. The sixth chapter of the Culla Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.ii.146ff.
• Senāsana-Sutta. The five factors which make an ideal lodging place, and the five factors which a monk should possess in order to make good use of such lodgings. A.v.15f.
• Senāsandāyaka Thera. An arahant (Ap.i.137f). He is evidently identical with Channa Thera (q.v.). ThagA.i.155.
• Senasenāpati-parivena. A monastic building erected by Kutthaka, senāpati of Sena II. See also Senānātha-parivena. Cv.li.88; see also Cv.Trs.i.156, n.2.
• Seniya
• Senkhandasela-Sirivaddhanapura
• Senkundiya. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara, and later ally of Lankapura. Cv.lxxvi.138, 221; lxxvii.7, 35.
• Sepanni-pāsāda. A building erected by Mānavamma in the Padhānarakkha-vihāra (Cv.xlvii.64). It is perhaps identical with the Sepannipuppha-pāsāda restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.105.
• Sereyyaka Thera
• Serī
• Serinī
• Serisara.-A lake in Ceylon; near it was the village of Kāraka. Ras.ii.183.
• Serissaka
• Seriva, Serivā. See the Serivānija Jātaka.
• Seriva. The name of a country. J.i.111.
• Serivānija Jātaka (No. 3)
• Serumadīpa. An old name for Nāgadīpa. J.iii.187,189.
• Seta
• Setaka, Sedaka. See Desaka.
• Setakannika. A village forming the southern boundary of Majjhimadesa. Vin.i.197; DA.i.173; J.i.49; KhA.133, etc.; AA.i.55, 265; MA.i.397.
• Setaketu 1. The Bodhisatta, born in Tusita in his penultimate birth. Sp.i.161; MA.i.103.
• Setaketu 2. A young man, son of an Udicca-brahmin. See the Setaketu Jātaka.
• Setaketu Jātaka (No. 377)
• Setambangana. A place in Ceylon. When King Mahānāga was fleeing from Ceylon to India, he received help from an Elder living there. Later, when he re-gained his throne, he made a great gift of medicine to Setambangana for as long as he should live (DhSA.399). v.l. Pemambanganga.
• Setārāma. A park (in Setavyā) where Kassapa Buddha died. BuA.195; Bu.xix.52 calls it Sonārāma.
• Setavyā
• Setibhinda. The Pāli name for King Hsin-hpyu-shin of Pegu. Bode, op. cit., 37.
• Setthināyaka. A Lambakanna of the Morlya district. He, with four other Lambakannas, took up arms under Parakkamabāhu I. and brought to him one thousand warriors. Cv.lxix.12.
• Setthiputta-petavatthu. The story of four setthiputtas of Sāvatthi (Pv.iv.15; PvA.279f). See the Lohakumbhi Jātaka.
• Setuccha Thera
• Setudāyaka Thera. An arahant (Ap.ii.408). He is evidently identical with Uttarapāla (ThagA.i.371) (q.v.).
• Sevitabba-asevitabba Sutta
• Seyya. See Samyama.
• Seyya-Jātaka (No. 282)
• Seyyasaka
• Seyyā-Sutta. On the four postures: that of petas, of the luxurious, of the lion, and of the Tathāgata. A.ii.244.
• Seyya-Sutta. The Buddha explains how the feelings of superiority, inferiority, or equality are brought about. S.iv.88.
• Sibbi. See Sivi.
• Sīdā
• Sīdantara samudda. The sea between every two ranges round Sineru; Nāgas live in this sea. J.vi.125.
• Sīdarī. A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.70.
• Siddhattha
• Siddhatthikā
• Sīdupabbatagāma. A village in Rohana, where Mahinda V. lived for some time. Cv.lv.8.
• Sigāla. See Sigālovāda Sutta.
• Sigāla-Jātaka (No.113, 142, 148, 152)
• Sigālaka 1. Son of Sigālakapitā (q.v.).
• Sigālaka 2. Son of Sigālakamātā (q.v).
• Sigālaka 3. See Singālaka.
• Sigālakamātā Therī
• Sigālakapitā (Singālaka-) Thera
• Sigālaka-Sutta
• Sigāla-Vagga. The tenth section of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.ii.242-70.
• Sigālovāda, Singālovāda Sutta
• Siggava
• Sīha
• Sīhabāhu
• Sīhabodhi Thera.-A colleague of Yonaka-Mahā Buddharakkhita Thera and Maliyamahādeva Thera. Ras.ii.188f.
• Sīhācala. See Sīhagiri.
• Sīhacamma Jātaka (No. 189)
• Sīhadvāra. One of the fourteen gates of Pulatthipura. Cv.lxxiii.160.
• Sīhaghosa. An eminent monk in the time of Padumuttara Buddha. It was the eminence of this monk which made Uruvelakassapa wish for similar honour for himself. Ap.ii.481.
• Sīhagiri, Sīhapabbata, Sīhācala
• Sīhahanu
• Sīha-Jātaka. See the Guna Jātaka.
• Sīhakotthuka Jātaka (No. 188)
• Sīhala, Sīhalā
• Sīhalacetikā. It is said that once sixty monks heard a Singhalese girl singing in her own language, on birth, old age, and death. They reflected on her words and became arahants. SNA.ii.397.
• Sīhaladīpa. The name given to Ceylon (Tambapanni) since it became the country of the Sīhalā. It is mentioned as a patirūpadesa. DhSA., p.103.
• Sīhalasangha
• Sīhalatthakathā
• Sīhalavatthu. A Commentary; probably another name for the Sīhalatthakathā (q.v.). Gv.62, 72.
• Sīhamukha. One of the mouths of the Anotatta. From it flowed a river, on the banks of which lions lived; hence its name. SNA.ii.438; UdA.301.
• Sīhanāda
• Sīhapabbata. See Sīhagiri.
• Sīhapapāta. One of the seven great lakes of Himavā. (A.iv.107; DA.i.164; UdA.390; AA.ii.759; J.v.415, etc.). The water in it never grew warm (SNA.ii.407).
• Sīhapura
• Sīhāsanadāyaka
• Sīhāsana-Vagga. The second chapter of the Apadāna. Ap.i.55ff.
• Sihāsanavījaniya Thera. An arahant. He is evidently identical with Jambuka (q.v.). Ap.i.403.
• Sīhasinānatittha. A place in Anurādhapura, through which the boundary of the Mahāvihāra passed. Mbv.136.
• Sīhasīvali
• Sīhassara. A king of long ago. Mhv.ii.13f.; Dpv.iii.42.
• Sīhasūra.  Name of a king (Gv.73).
• Sīha-Sutta
• Sīhā-Therī
• Sīhavāhana. A king of long ago, descendant of Mahāsammata. Mhv.ii.13; Dpv.iii.42.
• Sīka. A general of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.113.
• Sīkaviyala. A place near Pulatthipura, mentioned in the account of the wars of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.231.
• Sikhaddi, Sikhandī. A Gandhabba, son of Mātali; Bhaddā Suriyavaccasā was at first in love with him, but she was won later by Pañcasikha. D.ii.268; cf. Mtu.ii.190.
• Sikhā-Moggallāna
• Sikhānāyaka. An officer of Parakkamabāhu I. He lived in the Moriya district and was a Lambakanna. Cv.ixix.12.
• Sikhandi. A khattiya of thirty one kappas ago, brother of Sikhī Buddha. When the Buddha died he erected a thūpa over his remains. Netti, p.142.
• Sikhī
• Sikkhā Sutta
• Sikkhānisamsa Sutta. Brahmacariya is lived for the sake of the profit of the training, of further wisdom, of the essence of release, of the mastery of mindfulness. A.ii.243f.
• Sikkhāpada-Sutta
• Sikkhāpadavalañjanī. A Pali translation, by Pañcaparivenādhipati Thera, of the Sinhalese work Sikhavalanda, on monastic rules. P.L.C.216.
• Silācetiya. A thūpa in Anurādhapura, probably near the Thūpārāma (AA.i.385). The spot was sanctified by the Buddha sitting there in meditation. Mhv.i.82.
• Silādātha. See Silāmeghavanna.
• Silākāla
• Sīlakhanda. A section of the Bhūridatta Jātaka.  J.vi.184.
• Sīlakkhandha Vagga. The first division of the Dīgha Nikāya, containing suttas 1-13. D.i.2-253.
• Sīlakūta. The summit of the Missakapabbata in Ambatthala. It was there that Mahinda alighted on his arrival in Ceylon (Mhv.xiii.20). In the time of Kakusandha Buddha, it was called Devakūta; in the time of Konāgamana, Sumanakūta; in the time of Kassapa, Subhakūta. Dpv.xvii.14.
• Silāmayamuninda. See Silāsambuddha.
• Silāmegha
• Silāmeghapabbata. A building erected by Kassapa V.in the Abhayagiri vihāra. Cv.lii.58; see Cv.Trs.i.168, n.1.
• Silāmeghavanna
• Sīlānisamsa Jātaka (No. 190)
• Silāpassayaparivena. A building in the Tissārāma. It was there that the Sāmanera died who, in this life, became Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxii.28.
• Silāpattapokkharanī. A lotus pond in Benares, in which the Pacceka Buddha Mahāpaduma was born in a lotus. SNA.i.80.
• Silārāma. A park in Candavatī, where Sujāta Buddha died. Bu.xiii.36; BuA.171.
• Silāsambuddha
• Silāsobbhakandaka. A village in which Vattagāmanī lived for some time during the usurpation of his throne by the Damilas (Mhv.xxxiii.51). The village was to the south of Vessagiri-vihāra and near Pabbata-vihāra. MT.616.
• Silāsobbhakandaka-cetiya. A thūpa to the north of the Mahā Thūpa, built by Vattagāmanī (Mhv.xxxiii.88). The Sirīsamālaka lay between it and the Nāga-mālaka. MT.355.
• Sīla-Sutta
• Silātissabodhi. Son of Dāthānāma and brother of King Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.15.
• Sīlava
• Sīla-Vagga. The second chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.i.142-72.
• Sīlavamsa
• Sīlavanāga Jātaka (No. 72)
• Sīlavā-Sutta. The inhabitants of a village or suburb in which good hermits dwell for their support earn much merit in deed, word and thought. A.i.151.
• Sīlavā-Thera
• Silāvatī
• Sīlavati
• Sīlavīmamsa Jātaka (No. 330, 362)
• Sīlavīmamsana Jātaka (No. 86, 290, 305)
• Silāyupa Sutta
• Silesaloma. A Yakkha. See the Pañcāvudha Jātaka. He is identified with Angulimāla. J.i.275.
• Sīluccaya. Fifteen thousand kappas ago there were eight kings of this name, previous births of Sīhāsanadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.189.
• Silutta Vatthu.-The story of a blind rat snake (silutta), near Devarakkhitalena, who heard the Satipatthāna Sutta being recited by Talangapabbatavāsī Mahādhammadinna Thera. The snake was killed by a godhā, and was born as Tissāmacca, minister of Dutthagāmanī. Sad.S.88f; Rag.ii.131f.
• Sīmālankārasangaha. A work on boundaries and sites for religious ceremonies written by Vācissara of Ceylon (Gv.62; Svd.1213). Chapata wrote a Commentary on it. (Bode, op. cit., 18; Svd.1247; Gv.64.
• Simanadī. Probably the name of a river which formed one of the boundaries of the Vijayabāhu parivena. On its banks was Sālaggāma. Cv.xc.92.
• Sīmatālatthalī. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.101.
• Simbali. A Niraya. J.v.275.
• Simbalivana, Simbalidaha. The abode of Garudas. J.i.202; DhA.i.279; MA.ii.638.
• Simsapā-Sutta
• Simsapāvana
• Sindhaka.-A servant of Ankura. Pv.ii.9 (vs. 39, 40); PvA.127.
• Sindhavā.-See Sindhu.
• Sindhavasandana.-A king of twenty seven kappas ago, a previous birth of Khomadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.81.
• Sindhu
• Sindhūravāna.-A place in Ceylon, between Hatthiselapura and Gangāsiripura, on the way to Sumanakūta. There Vijayabāhu IV. built the Vanaggāmapāsāda vihāra and the Abhayarāja-parivena. Cv.lxxxviii.50.
• Sineru
• Sineru-Sutta.-The dukkha destroyed by the Noble Disciple (arahant) compared with what is yet left to him until his death, is like seven grains of sand on the top of Sineru. S.v.457f.
• Singāla.-One of the four leading merchants of Pupphavatī (Benares) in the time of Ekarāja. J.vi.135.
• Singāravimāna.-A four storeyed building, painted with various pictures, in the Dīpuyyāna. Cv.lxxiii.122.
• Singatthala.-A village in Ceylon, given by Kittisirirājasīha for the Majjhavela vihāra. Cv.c.230.
• Sinipura, Sinisura
• Sippatthala.-A village in Rohana, near Kājaragāma, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lvii.70; lviii.7.
• Siri
• Sirī
• Sirideva. A minister of Dutthagāmanī, who, with Visākha, was in charge of the arrangements for the Foundation Ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa. MT. 517.
• Siridevinaga. A mountain in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon. It was near Buddhagāma, and is mentioned in the account of the early campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxvi.19.
• Siridhara. A king of twenty seven kappas ago, a previous birth of Rahosaññaka (Sunāga) Thera. Ap.i.167; ThagA.i.182.
• Sirighanānanda. A parivena in Viddumagāma, built by Parakkamabāhu IV. Cv.xc.98.
• Sirighara. A place in the Nandārāma where, at the foot of a sirīsa-tree, Dīpankara Buddha defeated the titthiyā. Bu.ii.212.
• Sirigutta
• Siri-Jātaka (No. 284)
• Sirika. The name of the elephant which Sunanda (Upāli in this life) was riding when he insulted the Pacceka Buddha Devala by driving the elephant at him. ThagA.i.368.
• Sirikālakanni Jātaka (No.192, 382)
• Sirikālakannipañha
• Sirikanha. Another name for Asita. SNA.ii.487; cf. SN. vs. 689 (Kanhasiri).
• Sirikudda, Sirikūta
• Sirimā
• Sirimandagalla. One of the villages given by Vijayabāhu I. to the Lābhavāsins. Cv.lx.68.
• Sirimanda-Jātaka (No. 500). Evidently another name for the Sirimandapañha. J.iv.412.
• Sirimandapañha
• Sirimanda-Thera
• Sirimangala
• Sirimeghavanna
• Sirimitta-Thera
• Sirināga
• Sirinanda. A palace of Kassapa Buddha, before his renunciation. Bu.xxv.35.
• Sirinandā. Wife of Sujāta Buddha, in his last lay life. Bu.xiii.22.
• Sirinandana
• Sirinivāsa. Another name for Mahānāma, king of Ceylon. P.L.C. 84, 96.
• Siripāsāda. A building erected by Mānavamma in the Sirisanghabodhi vihāra. Cv.xlvii.64.
• Siripitthika. A village in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the wars of Aggabodhi III. Cv.xliv.88.
• Sirisaddhammavilāsa. A Burmese author of the fourteenth century. He wrote a tīkā on Kaccāyana's grammar called Saddhammanāsinī. Bode, op. cit., 26.
• Sirīsamālaka
• Sirisanghabodhi
• Sirīsavatthu
• Sirivaddha
• Sirivaddhā. A setthi's daughter who gave milk rice to Phussa Buddha. BuA.192.
• Sirivaddhamānavāpi. A tank in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, built by the Yuvarāja of Aggabodhi I. Cv.xlii.8.
• Sirivaddhana
• Sirivaddhanā. A girl of Sucitta-nigama, who gave milk rice to Vessabhū Buddha. BuA.205.
• Sirivaddha-pāsāda
• Sirivaddha-Sutta. Records the visit of Ananda to Sirivaddha of Rājagaha. See Sirivaddha (13).
• Sirivadhaka. The name of the architect of the Mahā Thūpa.  MT. 535.
• Sirivallabha
• Sirivijayarājasīha
• Sirivijayasundarārāma. A monastery in Jambuddoni, erected by Vijayabāhu III. Parakkamabāhu II. built round it a wall with gate towers. Cv.lxxxv.90f.
• Sirivīra-parakkamanarinda-sīha. King of Ceylon (1707-39 A.C.)
• Sirivivāda. See the Sujāta Jātaka (No. 306).
• Siriyālagāma. A village near Siridevipabbata, mentioned in the account of the early campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxvi.20, 69.
• Siriyavala. A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.170, etc.
• Sīsupācāla-Sutta. The story of Māra's temptation of Sīsupacālā. S.i.133f.
• Sīsupacalā-Therī
• Sitā
• Sītāharana. The story of Sītā's rape is referred to in the Commentaries as niratthakakathā (DA.i.76) or pāpakam sutam (MNid.A.148; VibhA.490).
• Sītalaggāmalena. A cave temple in Ceylon restored by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lx.59.
• Sītāluka Brahmadatta
• Sīta-Sutta. Cool weather is produced by the Sītavalāhakā devas wishing to regale their bodies. S.iii.256.
• Sītāvaka. A town in Ceylon, the capital of King Rājasīha I. Cv.xciii.5; we Cv.Trs.ii.224, n.1.
• Sītavalāhakā
• Sītavana
• Sītavaniya. See Sambhūta.
• Sīti-Sutta. Six things which prevent a monk from realizing the "cool" (nibbāna). A.iii.435.
• Sīti-Vagga. The ninth chapter of the Chakka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.435-40.
• Sitthagāma.-A village which Sena IV. converted into a parivena, evidently for his retirement (Cv.liv.6). Later, a monk, named Dhammamitta, lived there and wrote a Commentary on the Abhidhamma. Cv.liv.35.
• Siva
• Sīva
• Sīvaka
• Sīvaka Sutta. Gives an account of the visit of Moliya Sīvaka (q.v.) to the Buddha. S.iv.230.
• Sīvalā
• Sīvala. Son of Mangala Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.iv.20.
• Sīvalī
• Sīvalīputtāru. A stronghold in South India. Cv.lxxvii.41.
• Siva-Sutta. Describes the visit of Sivadevaputta to the Buddha. S.i.56.
• Sīveyyaka. See Sivirattha.
• Sivi
• Sivi-Jātaka (No. 499)
• Siviputta. See Sivirattha.
• Sivirattha
• Siyāmahantakuddāla. A village near Anurādhapura and close to Tissavāpi, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.149, 154, 161.