…was deeply attached to him. Ānanda entered the Order in the second year of the Buddha’s ministry, together with other Sākiyan princes, such as…

joy, pleasure, bliss.

joy, pleasure, bliss, delight DN.i.3; Snp.679, Snp.687; Ja.i.207 (˚maccha leviathan); Ja.vi.589 (˚bheri festive drum) DN-a.i.53 (= pītiyā etaṃ adhivacanaṃ).

Vedic ānanda, fr. ā + nand, cp. BSk. ā …

…Paṇḍita Kumāraka, to Ānanda in the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli, and discusses with him certain views held by Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta….

…Nikāya AN.i.226f. we find Ānanda asking the Buddha how far Abhibhū’s powers bore relation to those of a Buddha, and the Buddha replying that…

AbhirūpanandāAbhirūpaNandā

The two verses preached to her by the Buddha are given in the Therīgāthā. Thig.19–20

…Bhaṇḍa, colleague of Ānanda, and Abhiñjika, were engaged in wordy warfare.

The Buddha sends for them and admonishes them. Having heard…

…Vin.i.191

Near the river was Dandakappa, a Kosalan village, and while staying there Ānanda bathed in the river with many other monks….

…he was accused of partisanship by one of the parties concerned and was reported to Ānanda. The case went up before Upāli, who decided in…

…This Pasenadi gave to Ānanda. MN.ii.116

At first he was victorious in three battles, but, later, he was defeated by Pasenadi, who followed…

…honey-lumps, he approached Ānanda, and having, through him, obtained the Buddha’s permission, the brahmin prepared a meal of milk-rice and…

…Bhaddiya, Anuruddha, Ānanda, Bhagu, Kimbila, Devadatta and their barber, Upāli. Vin.ii.180f.

From Anupiya the Buddha went to Kosambi….

…him. Together they went with Ānanda, Bhagu, Kimbila, Devadatta and their barber Upāli, to the Blessed One at the Anupiya Mango Grove and were…

Ariṭṭha¹

A monk. He had been subjected by the Saṅgha to the ukkhepanīyakamma for refusal to renounce a sinful doctrine, namely, that the states of mind declared by the Buddha to be stumb …

…in the Giñjakāvasatha, Ānanda mentions to the Buddha that Asoka Thera had died, and asks where he had gone. The Buddha tells him that Asoka…

A nun of Ñātikā. When Ānanda announces her death to the Buddha at Ñātikā in the Giñjakāvasatha, and inquires where she had been born, the…

…and the Jarā Sutta.

When Ānanda was staying there a nun of the Jaṭila persuasion visited him and questioned him on the use of samādhi….

…Dasama who, while on a visit to Pāṭaliputta on business, went to see Ānanda at Beluvagāma and questioned him. MN.i.349f.…

An arahant, preceptor of Ānanda. He was once afflicted with scurvy and his robes clung to him. The monks thereupon applied water to the robes, but…

…in answer to a question by Ānanda, said that he had kept nothing back from his disciples and had no special instructions for the Order to follow…

…the Buddha to be ordained. Ānanda gave him the going forth, and the same night Bhadda became an arahant. The next morning the Buddha called to…

Bhaddā¹

Wife of King Muṇḍa. At her death the king placed her body in a vessel of oil and mourned for her until his friend Piyaka took him to Nārada Thera at the Kukkuṭārāma, and there made …

…colleague of Ānanda whom Kassapa reported to the Buddha at Veḷuvana for disputing with Abhiñjaka, colleague of Anuruddha. The…

…on his last journey, in the Ānanda cetiya, and where he preached a sermon on the four “Great References”. DN.ii.124f. AN.ii.167ff.

From…

…kept silence. Thereupon Ānanda asked for the carpeting to be removed, saying that the Buddha’s refusal to step thereon was as an example to…

BārānasīBenares

The capital of Kāsi-janapada. It was one of the four places of pilgrimage for the Buddhists - the others being Kapilavatthu, Buddhagayā and Kusināra - because it was at, the Migadā …

A nun, well known for her quarrelsome propensities. She was a friend of Thullanandā, during whose absence the other nuns once expelled Caṇḍakālī from their midst. This act was greatly resented by Thul …

…out thereof was entrusted to Ānanda. DN.ii.154 When Ānanda visited Channa at the Ghositārāma and pronounced on him the penalty, even his proud…

…gave special instructions to Ānanda that he should visit Cunda and reassure him by telling him that no blame at all attached to him and that he…

…resemble a field Vin.i.287 Ānanda is also said to have travelled through Dakkhiṇāgiri, gathering a large number of young men into the Order,…

…upon Ānanda. Learning that Ānanda was at Beluvagāma near Vesāli, he visited him there and held a discussion with him, which is recorded in the…

…by the Buddha during a tour in Kosala. There he preached the Udāna Sutta in answer to a question by Ānanda, as to how the Buddha knew of the…

…together with his friends Ānanda, Bhagu, Kimbila, Bhaddiya, Anuruddha, and their barber, Upāli, and he sought the Buddha at Anupiya and entered…

A pool near Kosambī. Close by was the Pilakkhaguhā and the Paribbājakārāma, where Ānanda once visited Sandaka and held a discussion with him. MN.i.513

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…elephant that the king met Ānanda. The king followed the Elder to the monastery, and their conversation is recorded in the Bāhitika Sutta….

…Buddha related this story to Ānanda during a tour in Kosala. They came to a sāla-grove and there the Buddha smiled; when asked the reason for his…

…AN.iii.300 SN.ii.155 Ānanda, AN.iii.383 Mahā Kassapa, Anuruddha, Puṇṇa Mantāniputta, Upāli and Devadatta, SN.ii.155 Cunda, and…

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of his delight in meditating in his small hut while it rains. Thag.325–329

The Giri Sutta was preached in reference to Girimānanda, when he lay grievously ill. AN …

…that the Buddha preached to Ānanda at Giñjakāvasatha the “Mirror of Truth” on his last visit to Nādikā, as described in the Mahā…

…in Tusita. Migasālā asks Ānanda how it was that people of different characters could have the same rebirth. AN.iii.348f. AN.v.138f.…

…praises of Rājagaha, giving Ānanda a chance, if he so desired, of asking him to live on for a kappa; but Ānanda did not take his opportunity….

…to a bhikkhunī, who, so Ānanda tells Udāyī, came to see him at the Añjanavana in Sāketā. The nun asked him for what purpose the Buddha…

…occasion is referred to by Ānanda in a conversation with Channa. SN.iii.134

The Kaccānagotta is mentioned among the higher castes, together…

…on his last journey, Ānanda asked him what had happened to Kakudha, who was already dead. The Buddha replied that Kakudha had found birth…

…was not mentioned by Ānanda among the great cities, in one of which, in his opinion, the Buddha could more fittingly have died than in…

KatamorakatissaKatamorakatissaka

One of the monks whom Devadatta incited to join him in stirring up discord among the Saṅgha, the others being Kokālika, Khaṇḍadevīputta and Samuddadatta Vin.ii.196 Vi …

…in answer to a question by Ānanda, to have destroyed the five orambhāgiya fetters and to have become inheritors of the highest heaven, thence…

Kaṇṭaka Kaṇḍaka

A novice ordained by Upananda. Kaṇṭaka committed an offence with another novice, Mahaka. When this became known, a rule was passed that no monk should ordain two novices Vin.i.79 ; th …

A monk, one of the associates of Devadatta, mentioned with Kokālika, Katamoraka Tissa and Samuddadatta. They helped Devadatta in his attempt to cause a rift in the Saṅgha.Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 Khaṇḍa …

…Kuṇḍadhāna, Revata and Ānanda, on the occasion when the Buddha preached the Naḷakapāna Sutta in the Palāsavana at Naḷakapāna….

…with him. Kokanuda asks Ānanda a series of questions, such as whether the world is eternal, whether the Tathāgata lives after death, etc.,…

KokālikaKokāliya

A monk, one of the chief partisans of Devadatta. Knowing the Buddha’s might, he was, at first, reluctant to join in Devadatta’s plot against him, but later allowed himself to be pers …

…This was the route taken by Ānanda when he went with five hundred others to inflict the higher punishment on Channa, Vin.ii.290 though there seems…

…AN.ii.62 Sāpūga, where Ānanda once stayed;. AN.ii.194 Kakkarapatta, where lived Dīghajāṇu; AN.iv.281 and Haliddavasana, residence of the…

…took place there between Ānanda and Bhadda. It may have been a favourite resort of Ānanda, for we find the householder Dasama of…

…midst of the jungle,“ and Ānanda was, at first, disappointed that the Buddha should have chosen it for his Parinibbāna. But the Buddha pointed…

…the Buddha tells Ānanda that Kālinga was reborn after death in the Suddhavāsā, and that there he would attain to nibbāna. DN.ii.92…

…Ghosita Park, and as asking Ānanda certain questions, recorded in the Kāmabhū Sutta. SN.iv.165 Two other suttas bearing the same name record…

…Buddha is said to have given Ānanda an opportunity of asking him to continue to live for a whole aeon. But Ānanda failed to do so. DN.ii.116

In…

…between Udāyī and Ānanda. Udāyī asks Ānanda to explain in detail a question which is recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.48 as…

…was in residence—e.g., Ānanda, who was visited there by the Licchavis Abhaya and Panditakumāra;. AN.i.220 Anuruddha, who lived there in a…

…Anuruddha, Revata, Upāli, Ānanda and Rāhula; these all went there while travelling in the Kāsi kingdom.

The books contain, besides these, the…

…imagination and he asked Ānanda to design a robe of the same pattern. Ānanda did this very successfully, and this pattern has been adopted for…

…grove existed even in the time of the Buddha, and during his stay there with Ānanda he preached the Makhādeva Sutta. MN.ii.74

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A novice, pupil of Upananda, who is mentioned as having been guilty of a sexual offence with Kaṇḍakā, another novice. Vin.i.70

…can chide the learned sage Ānanda?“ Kassapa was hurt by her words, and complained to Ānanda that such things should be said of him who had…

…a journey, Moggallāna and Ānanda went from lodging to lodging to summon the monks that they might hear Sāriputta vindicate himself. Vin.ii.236…

…him and the Buddha, and Ānanda, Godha, and Lomasavaṅgīsa. Once when the Buddha arrived at Kapilavatthu he asked Mahānāma to find him…

…Buddha again refused, but Ānanda interceded on their behalf and Mahāpajāpatī’s ordination was granted on condition that she abide by eight…

…his noonday rest after his meal at Uruvelakappa. It was in that grove that Ānanda took Tapussa to see him. AN.iv.437f.

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…a place of small importance. Ānanda contemptuously refers to it as a “little wattle and daub town in the midst of a jungle, a branch township,”…

…to fetch it, she found that Ānanda had put it away, and Visākhā, being told of this, decided not to wear it again. She had it valued by…

…he lay ill he was visited by Ānanda, to whom he confessed that even in his illness he practiced the four satipaṭṭhāna. He was quite free…

…Cūḷa-Suññatā Sutta, Ānanda is reported as reminding the Buddha that once, while staying at Nagaraka, the Buddha had remarked that he lived…

A nun, sister of Thullanandā. Her other two sisters were Nandā and Sundarīnandā. Vin.iv.211 Vin.iv.259

Nandā¹

A nun, sister of Thullanandā. Her other two sisters were Nandavatī and Sundarinandā. Vin.iv.211 Vin.iv.259

Nandā²

Declared by the Buddha AN.i.25 to be foremost among nu …

…grove in Rājagaha. The Buddha says that there he once gave Ānanda the chance of asking him to live for…

…the people fled in terror. Ānanda, seeing the elephant advancing towards the Buddha, went, in spite of the Buddha’s orders to the contrary, and…

…with Musila, Savittha, and Ānanda. In the course of discussion he declares that, though aware of the nature of nibbana, he is not an arahant….

…MN.iii.207 Susīma on Ānanda, SN.ii.119 and Jambukhādaka on Sāriputta. SN.iv.251

The inhabitants of the towns and villager, near which…

…Udāyi, which discussion Ānanda overheard and repeated to the Buddha. On another occasion, Pañcakaṅga related to the Buddha the conversation…

…Buddha on the suggestion of Ānanda. The Buddha found Phagguna in bed and grievously ill, and he talked to him and comforted him. Phagguna died…

…When the Buddha heard from Ānanda of Potaliputta’s questions and Samiddhi’s answers he blamed Samiddhi for his hasty reply.

For details see…

…suggestion, he handed to Ānanda. When Pukkusa had left, Ānanda draped one robe over the Buddha, and was greatly astonished at its pale…

…SN.iii.105f. represents Ānanda as saying to the assembled monks that Puṇṇa was of great help to himself and others when they were yet…

The Buddha visited Pātaligāma shortly before his death. Although it later became the capital of Magadha, it was then a mere village. At that time Ajātasattu’s ministers, Sunīdha and Vassakāra, were en …

…Anuruddha, Revata and Ānanda, and there we find Revata praising, as the highest type of monk, one who delights in meditation and has his…

…hundred coins. Rojā was Ānanda’s friend, and Ānanda was pleased when he arrived to pay homage to the Buddha, but when Rojā said that he…

…the Buddha once stayed with Ānanda. SN.v.2 It was not far from Rājagaha and was the residence of Macchariya Kosiya.

Sākya, not far from…

A monk whom Devadatta persuaded to join him in trying to bring about schism in the Order.Vin.ii.196 Vin.iii.171 He was a favourite of Thullanandā. Vin.iv.66

…staying there, he gave to Ānanda the opportunity of asking him to live for an eon, but Ānanda, because of his un-mindfulness, failed to take…

…in the company of Ānanda, requests that the same questions be put to him. This Savittha does, and he tells Savittha that he has realized…

…and evening. The Buddha, at Ānanda’s request, visited his house and preached to him the Doctrine, after which he became the Buddha’s…

…he was ill he sent word to Ānanda asking him to visit him. Ānanda, went and preached to him on the four satipaṭṭhānas. Sirivaḍḍha…

…to see him. But three times Ānanda refused the request, saying that the Buddha was weary. The Buddha overheard the conversation and asked Subhadda…

…to the city for alms, and Ānanda even suggested that they should go to another city.

But the Buddha pointed out to him the absurdity of running…

Sundarīnandā¹

Younger sister of Thullanandā; she had two other sisters, Nandā and Nandavatī. Sāḷha Migāranattā seduced her, and she was proclaimed guilty of a Pārājika offence. Vin.iv.21 …

…on it and confirms all that Ānanda has said. The retinue of Susīma listen enraptured, waxing wondrous, in diverse colours….

…also stayed there, so did Ānanda. Once when Ānanda was staying in the Migadāya in the Añjanavana, a nun, described as Jatilagāhikā, visited…

A tribe in North India, to which the Buddha belonged. Their capital was Kapilavatthu. Mention is also made of other Sākyan settlements - e.g., Cātumā, Khomadussa, Sāmagāma, Devadaha, Sīlavatī, Nagara …

…were called Sāpūgiyā….

…SN.i.8ff. MN.iii.192ff. and the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.196f. records a discussion between Ānanda and the wanderer Kokanuda on the…

…occasion the Buddha gave Ānanda the chance of asking him to live for a whole kappa, but Ānanda failed to make use of it.

Near the…

…was evidently an admirer of Ānanda, and was greatly offended on hearing that Mahā Kassapa had called Ānanda “boy,” and gave vent to her…

…to preach in the presence of Ānanda. It was, she said, “as if the needle-pedlar should try to sell a needle to the needle-maker.” Ānanda…

…in answer to his questions Ānanda explained to him that nothing given to members of the Order was wasted, he was pleased and himself made a…

…for his sarcastic remark to Ānanda, that Ānanda had failed to benefit by his close association with the Master. The Buddha assures him that…

…of his sacrifice, when Ānanda intervened and suggested that the Buddha should be asked to explain his meaning and to give his advice as to…

…recorded in the Gopaka-Moggallāna Sutta, between Ānanda and Vassakāra. MN.iii.13

…the monks SN.i.157 Ud.37f. Ānanda tried to persuade him to die in a place of greater importance, and the Buddha, in order to disabuse his mind,…

…Buddha, who declares that Ānanda should have taken Sāriputta’s side. Soon afterwards Ānanda seeks Upavāna and tells him that he was too…

…Vinaya, in the same way as Ānanda decided questions regarding the Dhamma. Vin.ii.286f.

In accordance with this tradition, ascribing to Upāli…

…Tapassu arrived and told Ānanda that be could not understand how young men in the prime of life found any attraction in renouncing the world….

…are attributed to Ānanda, as having been spoken by him in admonition to a lay woman named Uttarā, who was filled with the idea of her…

…etc., and as being helped by Ānanda to understand the real import of the Buddha’s answers.

Uttiya²

One of four monks with similar…

…Ānanda at Kosambī. He asks Ānanda what is the aim of holy life and, on being told that it is the abandoning of desire by means of jhāna,…

…to a forest deva who wished to agitate Ānanda.

…of jhāna, and tells Ānanda of a conversation he once had with the Buddha regarding jhāna. Ānanda, remarks that all jhānas are not…

…bowl“ on Vaḍḍha. When Ānanda visited Vaḍḍha and told him this news he fell in a faint, and, later, visited the Buddha with his family to…

…after his meal, he went with Ānanda to Cāpāla cetiya for his siesta, and, in the course of their conversation, he spoke to Ānanda of the…

…during a journey and asked Ānanda to send for Yasoja and his friends as he desired to see them. Ānanda sent a message. When the monks arrived,…

ĀnandacetiyaĀnande Cetiye

A shrine in Bhoganagara dedicated to a yakkha called Ānanda. There the Buddha stayed during his last sojourn, and…

A shipwright, who, with three hundred others, was sent by Mahosadha to the Upper Ganges to secure timber wherewith to build three hundred ships in preparation for Mahosadha’s visit to the capital of P …

(~ī)n. producing joy

full of joy

Anicca-saññā: Perception of impermanence, is defined in the Girimananda Sutta A. X. 60 as meditation on the impermanence of the five clusters of clinging:

Though, with a faithful heart, one take …

Association: sampayutta-paccaya is one of the 24 conditional relations paccaya. *

Asubha:* Impurity, loathsomeness, foulness, disgust. - In Vis.M VI, it is the cemetery contemplations * …

Papañca: Sanskrit prapañca In doctrinal usage, it signifies the expansion, differentiation, ‘diffuseness’ or ‘manifoldness’ of the world; and it may also refer to the ‘phenomenal world’ in gener …

Paticcasamuppāda: ‘dependent origination’, is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and psychical phenomena, a doctrine which, together with that of impersonality anattā, forms the …

Pūjā: 1 honour, respect, homage, 2 worship, devotional observances, devotional offerings; also offerings to Bhikkhus.

1: The Mahā-mangala Sutta Sn. 259 says that;Honour and respect towards those …

indeclinable exclamation of surprise or bewilderment: alas! woe etc., perhaps in cpd. ahevana a dense forest (lit. oh! this forest, alas! the forest (i.e. how big it is) Ja.v.63 (uttamāhevanandaho, …

Bhāṇaka¹

adjective noun speaking; (n.) a reciter, repeater, preacher (of sections of the Scriptures), like Aṅguttara˚; Vism.74 sq.; Dīgha˚; DN-a.i.15, DN-a.i.131; Ja.i.59 Vism.36, Vi …

…Snp.p.59; Dhp-a.iii.170; Ānanda˚ DN.ii.123, DN.ii.126; Udena˚ DN.ii.102, DN.ii.118; DN.iii.9; Dhp-a.iii.246; Gotama (ka) ibid.; Cāpāla˚…

…of the Dh., an epithet of Ānanda Thag.1048; Ja.i.382, Ja.i.501; Ja.ii.25; Dhp-a.iii.250; Pv-a.2

• -bhūta having become…

…in the Jātaka tales; viz. Ānanda (as the king of the fishes or a Leviathan) Ja.i.207; Ja.ii.352; Ja.v.462; *Timanda &…

husband’s sister Ja.v.269 (= sāmikassa bhaginī p. Ja.v.275).

Sk. nanāndṛ & nanāndā, to nanā “mother”

to be glad, to rejoice, find delight in, be proud of (c. instr.) SN.i.110; AN.iv.94 sq.; Snp.33; Dhp.18
caus nandeti to please, to do a favour Ja.iv.107 (nandaya = tosehi Com.); Pv-a.139 (= toset …

…Ānanda Vin.i.46 Vin.iii.10 (Ānanda); Vin.iv.78 (id.); Ud.90 (Nāgasamāla) Ja.iv.123; Mil.15 (Nāgasena); Pv-a.38, Pv-a.93 (Ānanda).

Vedic…

emotion of joy, delight, zest exuberance. On term see Dhs. trsl. 11 and Cpd. 243 Classed under sankhārakkhandha, not vedanā˚-DN.i.37, DN.i.75; DN.iii.241, DN.iii.265, DN.iii.288; MN.i.37; SN.ii.30; …

…= MN.i.481 (sāgataṃ bhante Bhagavato); DN.ii.173; MN.i.514 (˚aṃ bhoto Ānandassa) DN-a.i.287; Dhp-a.iii.293.

su + āgata, orij. nt….

…servant, “famulus” Ānanda was the last u. of Gotama Buddha (see DN.i.206 Thag.1041 f.; Thag-a in Brethren loc. cit.; Vin.i.179…

…SN.ii.215 sq (˚muni, of Ānanda; explained as “vedeha-muni = paṇḍitamuni,” cp. K.S. i.321; translation K.S. ii.145 “the learned…

…Dhp-a.i.289); Ja.v.464 (= Ānanda-maccha C.), Ja.v.507. -da “water-giver,” i.e. cloud Dāvs iii.40. -dhara…

to be pleased or delighted Ja.vi.589 (aor. ānandi in T. reading ānandi vittā, expl^d. by C. as nandittha was pleased; we should however read ānandi-cittā with gladdened heart). See also * …

adjective enjoyable, nt. joy, feast Ja.vi.589 (˚ṃ acarati to celebrate the feast = ānandachaṇa C.).

grd. of ānandati

joy, happiness in cpd. ānandi-citta Ja.vi.589 (so read probably for ānandi vitta see ānandati).

ā + nandī, cp. ānanda