…came of the Kaṇhāyanā-gotta; thereupon the Buddha traced the family back to its ancestor, who had been the offspring of a slave girl of…

…of the Bhaggavagotta lived. The Buddha visited him once while staying at Anupiya and it was then that he preached the Pātika Sutta….

A brahmin of the Bhāradvājagotta who had seven widowed daughters and was much in debt. One day he lost fourteen oxen, and, after searching for them…

A clothed Wanderer who lived in a pleasance near Anupiya.

He was a friend of Sunakkhatta. The Buddha once visited him, and their conversation is recorded in the Pātika Sutta. DN.iii.1ff.

…Vin.iv.6 the Bhāradvājagotta is mentioned together with the Kosiya as a low clan.

Bhāradvāja⁵

A brahmin of the Bhāradvāja…

Bulī

The name of a gotta. They claimed one eighth share of the Buddha’s relics and raised a thūpa over them in their city of Allakappa. DN.ii.167

…that time he was one hundred and twenty years old. Bāvarī was the name of his gotta. He bore on his body three of the marks of a Great Being….

A slave-woman of Okkāka. She was the mother of Kaṇha, ancestor of the Kaṇhāyanā-gotta. DN.i.93

…went there to see Vacchagotta, and it was on this occasion that the Tevijja-Vacchagotta Sutta was preached….

…Gagga may have been a gotta-name. Thus when, after his ordination, Aṅgulimāla is introduced to Pasenadi, the latter addresses him as…

…Sajjha, AN.iv.371 the Kassapagotta monk, AN.i.237 Pañcasikha, SN.iv.103 DN.ii.220 Sutavā, AN.iv.369 the four kings of the Cātummahārājika world…

…Elder Sandha of the Kaccānagotta AN.v.322f. and the Elder Kaccāyana. SN.ii.153f. SN.ii.74 SN.iv.90

Both in the Janavasabha Sutta and the…

…he belonged to the Gotama-gotta. At age 29 he departed from his home to seek Awakening. Six years later he realized this goal. He spent the…

A brahmin of the Bhāradvājagotta. He goes to the Buddha and asks him the questions given in the Jaṭā Sutta. The Buddha gives the same answer….

…monk named Kaccānagotta is mentioned in the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.ii.18ff. as visiting the Buddha at Sāvatthī and questioning him on…

…brahmin of the Bhāradvāja-gotta, where a grass mat was spread for him by the brahmin. It was on this occasion, according to the Māgaṇḍiya…

…was evidently a well-known gotta name and people born in a family bearing that name were often addressed as Kassapa—e.g., Uruvelā-Kassapa or…

…their welcome, Kassapagotta grew tired of looking after them and was blamed by them for his neglect. He therefore went to Campā, where he…

…ancestor of the Kaṇhāyanagotta. DN.i.93 Later he went into the Dekkhan and, having learnt mystic verses, became a mighty seer. Coming back to…

…district in India. it is mentioned in a list of places passed by the Buddha on his way from Verañja to…

…given as one of the lower gottas, Vin.iv.8 but it is also Sakka’s gotta, and is therefore generally regarded as a high one. Thag.415

The name…

The name of a clan (gotta). It was evidently common to both brahmans and khattiyas, for we find the brahman Aññāta-Koṇḍañña belonging…

…perhaps because he belonged to that gotta.

…by those, such as Vacchagotta, SN.iv.391ff. and Vappa, AN.ii.196ff. eager to learn from him the teachings of the Buddha. The Buddha placed…

…of the brahmin Bhāradvājaggotta at Kammāsadamma and Māgaṇḍiya came to the hut. Seeing the grass mat on which the Buddha slept at night, he…

…do Timbaruka, SN.ii.22 Vacchagotta, SN.iii.257 and Sivaka Moliya. SN.iv.230 Potaliputta calls on Samiddhi, MN.iii.207 Susīma on Ānanda, SN.ii.119…

…ala….

…name of a clan. An ascetic of this clan, hearing Phussa Thera preach, asked him a question which led to a…

A monk whose Theragāthā verses depict the ascetic Paṇḍarassagotta questioning him on the future decline of Bhikkhus. Thag.949–980

…to Makkhali Gosāla.

His gotta name was Kassapa. He had a following of five hundred, among whom was the devaputta Asama. SN.i.65 He was…

…and judicial affairs of the gotta were discussed in their Santhāgāra, or Mote Hall, at Kapilavatthu. See, e.g., D.i.91 the Sākyans had a similar…

…name of a gotta. The village of Uttarakā belonged to them, and when the Buddha was staying there with Sunakkhatta, the latter…

…Vacchagotta-, Aggi Vacchagotta-, Mahā Vacchagotta-, Vaccha—and Vacchagotta-Suttas. The Saṃyutta Nikāya contains a whole section on…

…Thag.13

There is a separate verse also ascribed to a Vacchagotta on the same theme. Thag.113

…mentions a lady of the gotta living in Kāmandā, who was evidently a teacher. A pupil of hers, having visited Udāyi, then staying in the…

…Saccaka, Tevijja, Vacchagotta, Sunakkhatta and Ratana.

One hundred years after the Buddha’s death Vesāli was again the scene of interest…

…to the Koṇḍañña gotta. He preached his first sermon in Khemamigadāya to his step brother Khandha and his purohita’s son Tissa; these…

…Pāvā. DN.iii.209 It was a gotta held in esteem. Vin.iv.8

Vāseṭṭha³

A young brahmin who, with his friend Bhāradvāja, visited…

Another name for Suriya, the Sun. DN.iii.196

Ādicca was also the gotta name of the Sākyans who were called the Ādiccā. Snp.423

…stated in the Tevijja Vacchagotta Sutta MN.i.483 that far from any Ājīvaka having put an end to sorrow, the Buddha could recall only one…

A physician of Rājagaha who lanced the fistula of a monk. Meeting the Buddha, he told him of the lancing, trying to make fun of it. The Buddha, having made inquiries, declared the performance of such …