…Sākyan. When he died the Buddha declared that he was a sotāpanna, bound for enlightenment. But many of the Sākyans spoke scornfully…

…dwelt in solitude and in meditation and soon became an arahant. DN.ii.148ff.

Subhadda³

A lay disciple of Nātikā. He was an…

A lay disciple of Ñātika who died and was reborn in the Suddhāvāsa, there to attain Nibbāna. SN.v.358 DN.ii.92

…SN.i.89–91 we find Pasenadi, King of Kosala, visiting the Buddha at noonday and telling him that he had just finished having the banker’s…

…great faith in his two chief disciples and looked to them to keep the Order pure. There is one instance recorded of Moggallāna seizing a wicked…

…prince’s intentions he abdicated in his favour. But Devadatta was not satisfied till Bimbisāra, who was one of the Buddha’s foremost…

…knowledge of the doctrine, meditation, forest-life, discourse on the abhidhamma or self-mastery.

Once he lay grievously ill in the Andhavana in…

…but the Buddha refused to die until the sāsana was firmly established.

With the accounts of Māra, as the personification of Evil,…

…and Upasena, just before the latter’s death, is recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya. Upasena died of snake bite. SN.iv.40 The cave was…

…occasion, when Kokāliya died and was born in Padumaniraya, Sahampati appeared before the Buddha and announced the fact to him.Snp.p.125…

…Nāthaputta had just died at Pāvā and his followers were divided by bitter wrangles. DN.iii.210 Cunda Samaṇuddesa was spending his rainy…

…grievously ill, and he talked to him and comforted him. Phagguna died soon after, having attained arahantship.

…Pasenadi coming to the Buddha to ask about Dhamma. Pasenadi died shortly before the Buddha.

…cetiya, SN.i.185 where Kappa died. When Vaṅgīsa questioned the Buddha as to the destiny of Kappa, the Buddha’s answer was that he had…

…There, soon after, he died, and immediately great dissensions arose among his followers. When the Buddha heard of the quarrels, he remarked…

…nun mentioned as having died at Nātika and having been reborn spontaneously in the Suddhāvāsā, there to pass away, never to return….

…Thag.534 Thig.162 She died seven days after giving birth to the Buddha in Lumbinī. An elaborate account of the birth is given in the…

…this same king who is referred to in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. AN.iii.57ff. His wife Bhaddā died, and Muṇḍa gave himself up to complete…

A class of Devas, the gods of “Passionate Delight”. According to the belief of some, a man who dies fighting is born among them. SN.iv.308

…spoke ill of the Chief Disciples. Having three times accused the Elders of sinful desires, he left Jetavana, but boils immediately came out…

…Kapilavatthu lay a direct road to Vesālī, Vin.ii.253 and through Kapilavatthu passed the road taken by Bāvarī’s disciples from Alaka…

…the Buddha who dwelt at Nādikā. When the Buddha arrived at Nādikā on his last journey, Ānanda asked him what had happened to Kakudha, who was…

A river, on the bank of which was the Upavattana Sālavana of the Mallas of Kusināra, where the Buddha died. DN.ii.137

Hirakinari1river

…a Sākyan and loved holding discussions with the heretics. When he suffered defeat at their hands, he would resort to falsehood and evasion, or…

…Māyā, Suddhodana’s chief consort, and he belonged to the Gotama-gotta. At age 29 he departed from his home to seek Awakening. Six years…

…was given the rank of chief of those who appointed lodgings. AN.i.24

Dabba evidently died young. The Udāna Ud.viii.9 contains an account of…

…a Cakkavatti dies or leaves the world, the Cakkaratana disappears from the sight of men for seven days; it gives warning of a…

…states that Anuruddha died at Veluvagāma in the Vajjī country. This probably refers to Beluvagāma, in which case Veluva is a *varia…

…became. Later, when the king died, Abhaya was disturbed in mind, and entered the Order. On the occasion of the preaching of the Tālacchiggalūpama…

…was staying at Ñātikā in the Giñjakāvasatha, Ānanda mentions to the Buddha that Asoka Thera had died, and asks where he had gone. The Buddha…