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A bhikkhunī to whom several Therīgāthā verses are addressed, encourageing her to overcome the defliments that have long kept her trapped in suffering. Thig.163–168

…Thag.1147–1148

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

…denied rebirth. In the Aṅguttara AN.i.286 he seems to have been confused with Makkhali Gosāla. He was called Kesakambali because he wore a…

One of the four great continents into which the earth is divided. According to the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.i.227 AN.v.59 each cakkavāla (world-system) has an Aparagoyāna.

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…brahmin teacher. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.136–138 we are told that among Araka’s pupils those who followed his teachings were born in…

…and Jotipāla. In the Aṅguttara AN.iv.135f. a seventh name is added, Araka.

They practised harmlessness and, abstaining from flesh, got rid…

…mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.451 in a list of householders and upāsakas who had seen and realised immortality and were…

…mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.AN.i.213 AN.iv.252 AN.iv.256 AN.iv.260 It does not, however; occur in the list of twelve countries…

…township, because it is always mentioned in connection with Aṅguttarāpa.

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…eminent laywoman. The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.259 AN.iv.347 records a visit paid by her to the Buddha at Jetavana. The Buddha then preached to…

…went to Kosambī.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.355f. AN.v.41f. AN.v.157ff. are discources preached to the Cetis by Mahācunda. While…

…mentioned once, in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.iii.215 where we are told that he visited Ānanda at Sāvatthī and asked him questions about the…

…DN.ii.135f.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.263ff. mentions another conversation between the Buddha and Cunda. Cunda tells the Buddha that…

…According to the Aṅguttara. AN.iii.366ff. Dhammika had to leave seven lodgings, one after the other, because the lay supporters of the…

…his food. But from the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.30f. AN.iii.341 AN.iv.340ff. it would appear that the Buddha was not left to enjoy the…

…was the Buddha in a previous life. DN.ii.232–251 He is twice mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.372 AN.iv.135 in a list of ancient…

…is recorded in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. AN.iv.222f.

At Jīvaka’s request, the Buddha enjoined upon monks to take exercise; Jīvaka had…

…contains a discourse on handling experiences by way of casual relations, and the Aṅguttara AN.v.29f. a discourse on the ten noble…

…different places in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.247 AN.iii.339 AN.iv.84 record is made of a conversation between Kimbila and the Buddha, when…

…king of the Kurūs. The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.369f. mentions a king Koravya who owned a large banyan tree named Suppatiṭṭha. According…

…included in the list of sixteen Janapadas appearing in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. AN.i.213

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…Thag.527–536

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.449f. records a conversation between Udāyī and Ānanda. Udāyī asks Ānanda to explain in…

…his teachings, for the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.57 mentions that once when he was journeying from Madhurā to Verañja and stopped under a tree…

…and not-self. The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.i.118f. records a discussion at Jetavana between Savittha, Koṭṭhita and Sāriputta, as to who…

…Buddha left Bhaddiya for Aṅguttarāpa, Meṇḍaka gave orders to his servants and followed the Buddha with abundant provisions of all sorts,…

…is recorded in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. AN.iii.356 There he asks the Buddha if the claims made with regard to the Dhamma are justified. The…

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

…Sutta in the Aṅguttara, Māluṅkyāputta comes to the Buddha in his old age and asks for a teaching in brief. The Buddha first chides…

…deva world. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Māra is described as the head of those enjoying bliss in the Kāmāvacara worlds. AN.ii.17 In the…

…SN.ii.281

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.166f. contains a discourse in which the Buddha discusses Nanda’s claim to have achieved self…

…with sinful heart.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya attributes two discourses to Nandaka. The first AN.i.193f. was preached at the Migāramātupāsāda…

Hell. The Saṃyutta and Aṅguttara Nikāyas and the Sutta Nipāta contain a list of hells: Abbuda, Nirabbuda, Ababa, Aṭaṭa, Ahaha, Kumuda,…

…who is mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.379ff. as having been visited during his illness by the Buddha on the suggestion of Ānanda….

A brahmin of Vesāli. The Aṅguttara Nikāya records a conversation between him and Kāraṇapālī. The latter meets Piṅgiyānī and, on learning…

…follower. MN.i.359ff.

A conversation he had with the Buddha is recorded in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. At the end of the discussion he…

…is mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.i.133 AN.i.134 AN.ii.45 AN.iv.63 and in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, SN.ii.49 which is evidence of its…

…as, according to the Anguttara Nikāya iii.57 even Munda is mentioned as residing at Pātaliputta. It was, however, in the time of Asoka that…

…and the other in the Aṅguttara, formed the topics for Rāhula’s meditation.

Later, the Buddha, knowing that Rāhula’s mind was ripe for…

…mentioned by name.

Tradition identifies Rāhulamātā with Bhaddakaccānā who, in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.i.25 is mentioned as chief among…

…Vin.ii.299–301

In the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.355 AN.v.41 AN.v.157 Sahajāti is described as a city of the Cetis, and Mahā Cunda is mentioned…

…by Potaliputta for pretending to expound the Dhamma after being only three years in the Order. The Aṅguttara AN.iv.385f. contains a record of a…

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of experiencing the suffering caused by kamma in the past. Thag.81

…that led to the preaching of the Udumbarika Sīhanāda Sutta.

In the Aṅguttara he is mentioned in a list of eminent lay disciples. AN.iii.451

In the Aṅguttara AN.i.118f. he is represented as saying, in the course of a conversation between him, Sāriputta and Koṭṭhita, that he…

…mentioned in the Aṅguttara AN.iii.276 were also followers of Sañjaya— they were called Amarāvikkhepakā for their philosophical…

…be this same brahmin who is mentioned several times also in the Aṅguttara. AN.i.168f. AN.iii.230f. AN.v.232 AN.v.252

A brahmin of Aṅguttarāpa. He was a great friend of Keṇiya, the Jaṭila, and visited him when Keṇiya was making preparations to entertain the…

…was Ukkaṭṭha.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.37 records a conversation between the Buddha and the brahmin Doṇa, whom the Buddha met on the…

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A Buddha of a past age.DN.ii.7 DN.iii.195f. SN.ii.9

• He was born in the Nisabha pleasance in Aruṇavatī.
• His father was the khattiya Aruṇa and his mother Pabhāvatī.
• His wife wa …

…AN.iv.179f.

The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.38f. AN.iv.79f. contains two discussions, in more or less identical terms, in which Sīha…

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

…Kāmandā. SN.iv.121 The Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.180 mentions the pupils of the Todeyya-brahmin speaking ill of Eḷeyya because the latter…

…Vassakāra Sutta of the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.180 it is mentioned that King Eḷeyya, together with his bodyguard, Yamaka, Moggalla and others,…

…sutta in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.49–51 gives a list of things of which Ugga himself was fond. We are told that he offered these…

…He is mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.133 in a list of very eminent disciples, together with Cāla, Kakkaṭa, Kaḷimbha, Nikata and…

…on the Vinaya. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.143f. he is mentioned as asking the Buddha for a brief sermon, the Buddha telling him that if…

…the Aṅguttara Nikāya, AN.i.26 she is described as the best of women disciples in jhāna. She is again mentioned AN.iv.347…

The name given to the region to the north of the river Mahī. See also Aṅguttarāpa.

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…is represented in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.v.193ff. as asking the Buddha various questions on the duration of the world, etc., and as being…

…MN.i.489

in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.i.180f. a Vacchagotta who is a wanderer visits the Buddha at Venāgapura, where he was at the head…

…are recorded in the Aṅguttara Nikāya, all three taking place at Veḷuvana.

On discovering that a certain forest official had given tribute…

…Verañja is given in the Aṅguttara. AN.iv.172ff.

A road led from Verañjā to Madhurā, and the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.ii.57f. contains a…

A city in the Aṅguttarāpa country, probably its capital. The Buddha once visited the city with 1,250 monks and the whole company was entertained…