…he is stated as having visited the Buddha at Gijjhakūṭa and discussed with him the views of Pūraṇa Kassapa. The Buddha teaches him about…

…naked ascetic. He visited the Buddha at Ujuññā in the Kaṇṇa-katthala deer-park and asked him if it were true that he disparaged…

…novice Aciravata is thus addressed by Prince Jayasena, who visits him, and also by the Buddha.

…of Hatthaka Āḷavaka, who visits him with a large following, whose fealty has been won (according to Hatthaka) by observing the four…

…the Buddha suggested to him the desirability of living up to his name by practising ahiṃsā. It is said that later he became an arahant. SN.i.164

…advanced in years, visited the Buddha during this period and questioned him as to whether it were true that he did not pay respect to age….

…paribbājaka who visited the Buddha, and at whose instigation the Buddha preached to the Bhikkhus on the difference between dhamma and…

…Ajātasattu describes a visit paid to Ajita, he taught the doctrine of “cutting off,” i.e. annihilation at death. He was a nihilist who…

…disciples of Bāvarī who visited the Buddha at the request of their teacher.

He was the first to question the Buddha, and the questions asked by…

…shame, he refrained from visiting the Buddha till he was won over by the persuasions of his physician Jīvaka Komārabhacca. And when in the end…

…the Buddha mentions that he visited their abode and conversed with beings who were born there as a result of the holy lives they had lived under…

…the villages near Vesāli visited by the Buddha on his last tour D.ii.123. It was between Bhandagāma and Bhoganagara, on the road from Vesāli to…

…previously during their visits to Vesāli. DN.ii.94 SN.v.301

The Buddha is stated to have preached three suttas in the grove, two of them being…

…returning from her visit to the Buddha, Ambapālī was so elated at the idea of having the Buddha to a meal the next day, that she refused…

…Sutta was preached. On the occasion of the preaching, as Sakka with his retinue came to visit the Buddha, the village was bathed in radiance….

…Later Sāgata visited the Buddha at Bhaddavatikā and went with him to Kosambī. The fame of the Elder’s victory over the Nāga had…

…request of his teacher, he visited the Buddha in the Icchānadkala wood and seems to have opened his conversation by reviling the Sākiyans and…

…eminent Elders who visited the place wer.

• Isidatta of Avanti (who answered Citta’s questions regarding the reason for the existence of…

…the brahmin went to the provision-room to see what deficiency he could possibly supply. Seeing there neither rice, milk, nor honey-lumps, he…

…and Sakuludāyi. The Buddha visits them and talks about the four factors of Dhamma (dhammapadāni) which are held in esteem by everyone:…

…who was with Sakuludāyi when the Buddha came to visit the latter. MN.ii.1

…Vin.ii.184 Near Anupiya was the park where the paribbājaka of the Bhaggavagotta lived. The Buddha visited him once while staying at Anupiya and…

…being aware of this, visited him and taught it to him. Thereupon Anuruddha developed insight and realised arahantship in the highest grade….

…by the thought of the visit that he got up three times during the night. When, at last, he started for Sītavana, the road was quite dark, but…

One of the Pacceka Buddhas mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

…Pasenadi, King of Kosala, visiting the Buddha at noonday and telling him that he had just finished having the banker’s wealth removed to the…

A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in the company of Sahali, Ninka, Ākoṭaka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya.

They were…

…with famine, Asibandhaka visited Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta, who asks him to go and defeat the Buddha in debate. Asibandhaka is at first…

…greatly overjoyed, but realising that he himself would, by then, be born in an Arūpa world and would not therefore be able to hear the Buddha…

…SN.iii.124ff. records a visit paid by the Buddha to Assaji as he lay grievously sick in Kassapārāma near Rājagaha. He tells the Buddha that…

…wrong time, using perfumes, visiting shows, singing and playing games of various sorts. Their abandoned ways of life won popularity for them, and…

…defeat in controversy.

He visits the Buddha and asks what he has to say concerning the claims of the brahmins to be the only superior class, the…

…as a gāmani (head man of a village)….

…whole army with its four divisions enter a lotus stalk and the man thought he was mad. But the Buddha says that it was an Asura army in flight….

…Isidatta and Isidāsī

Mahā Kaccāna seems to have spent a good deal of his time in Avanti, dwelling in the city of Kuraraghara in…

…once went in royal state to visit Mahā Kaccāna who was staying in the Gundā Grove in Madhurā.

Their discussion is recorded in the Madhura…

…in Avihā and there attain arahantship. The Buddha once visited Avihā. DN.ii.50–51

AyujjhāAyojjhā

Two visits of the Buddha to this city are recorded in the Canon; on one occasion he preached the Phena Sutta SN.iii.140ff. and on…

…of the Jaṭila persuasion visited him and questioned him on the use of samādhi. AN.iv.427–428

There Sujātā met the Buddha, and having…

…Enlightenment, the Buddha visited them at Isipatana and preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Koṇḍañña won the Fruit of the First Path….

…the monk with all requisites. Aṅgulimāla, however, had taken on the dhutangas and refused the king’s offer.

When he entered Sāvatthī…

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

…and death; and the Buddha visited him in order to point out his error.

Baka welcomed the Buddha but, owing to the influence of Māra, refused to…

…Aṅga kingdom. The Buddha visited there several times and stayed sometimes at the Jātiyāvana where Meṇḍaka, who lived there, came to see…

…who, at his request, visited the Buddha. Snp.1008

He questioned the Buddha as to how a man could get over attachment and cross the flood. By…

…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…

…life. Once, when the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu and wanted lodging for the night, Mahānāma suggested that he should go to the hermitage of…

…the former.

The Buddha visited it during his last tour, and while there he talked to the monks on four conditions, which lead to Nibbāna….

…the Buddha stayed on his visit there. Vin.i.249

Once while he was meditating there, a thunderstorm broke out and two peasants and four oxen were…

…living in Sāvatthī visited the Buddha there, and joined the Order and became arahants; viz., Ahiṃsaka Bhāradvāja, Jaṭā Bhāradvāja…

…king, that the Buddha might visit his realm, that he might wait on the Buddha, that the Buddha might teach him the doctrine, that he might…

…in his mother’s womb, she visited the Buddha at the Ghositārāma in Kosambī and declared that whatever child was born to her it would accept the…

…AN.iv.347 records a visit paid by her to the Buddha at Jetavana. The Buddha then preached to her on the uposatha and the advantages of…

…Uttara therefore visited the Buddha and, having seen the thirty two marks, resolved to observe the Buddha in his every posture and, to…

…where he visited Bhagu and preached to him on the virtues of solitude. From there the Buddha proceeded to Pācīnavaṃsadāya….

…it was at, the Migadāya in Isipatana near Bārānasī that the Buddha preached his first sermon to the Pañcavaggiyā D.ii.141. This was the spot…

…possessed of marvellous vision, enabling him to discover treasures, and then the Adviser, who is generally the Cakkavatti’s eldest son….

…and the Buddha and a visit paid by Candana to Mahā Moggallāna. SN.iv.280

Candana²

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of…

…including Pasenadi, visited the Buddha and asked him which was the highest sensual pleasure. When the Buddha had answered their question,…

…was granted. SN.i.50 The deva Candimasa who is mentioned SN.i.51 as visiting the Buddha is probably identical with Candimā.

…The Buddha once paid a visit there and stayed in the Todeyya-ambavana. Saṅgārava went to see him, and on that occasion was preached the…

…came to Opasāda, Caṅkī visited him, in spite of the protests of his friends and colleagues, and on this occasion was preached the Caṅkī…

…became an arahant after a visit which the Buddha paid to him.AN.iv.228 Vin.i.300f. The Janavasabha Sutta DN.ii.200 leads us to infer that the…

…suffering much pain. He was visited by Sāriputta and Mahā Cunda, and when they discovered that he contemplated suicide, they tried to deter him,…

…of Bhadragaka. Bhadragaka visited the Buddha and told him that he was always anxiously waiting for news of Ciravāsī, who was away at school….

…hospitality. Among them was Isidatta, a former acquaintance of Citta, but Isidatta left when he found that his identity had been discovered….

A valley (?) near Rājagaha, visited by the Buddha in the course of his wanderings. Here he laid down a rule, allowing monks to recite the…

…younger of the two daughters of Pajunna, both of whom were called Kokanadā. She visited the Buddha at the Kutāgārasālā in Vesāli and…

…to Ānanda that he should visit Cunda and reassure him by telling him that no blame at all attached to him and that he should feel no remorse, but…

…caused disturbance by their visits to the Buddha. AN.v.133 In this context he is spoken of as a very eminent Elder and was, therefore, evidently an…

…near the Cālikapabbata visited by the Buddha. His attendant on one of these visits was Meghiya. Close to Cālikā was the village of Jantu…

…SN.i.132 that one day, when Cālā was meditating in the Andhavana, Māra visited her, asking her various questions and trying to tempt her.

…been an ascetic who had renounced his vows to have a child with her, but now regretted his decision and wanted to return to the holy life…

…decided to accede to the request of Māra that he should die. When he announced this decision the earth shook. DN.ii.102ff. AN.iv.308f.…

…in the world, all these visits having the same purpose. Then, at the assembly of the devas, they submit their report to the gods of…

…of Velukantaka and she was visited both by Sāriputta and by Moggallāna during a tour in the district. AN.iv.64 In Dakkhiṇāgiri, Sāriputta…

…him to Pāṭaliputta, he visited the Kukkuṭārāma to call upon Ānanda. Learning that Ānanda was at Beluvagāma near Vesāli, he visited him…

…near the Aciravatī; it was visited by the Buddha during a tour in Kosala. There he preached the Udāna Sutta in answer to a question by Ānanda, as…

…of Godhi.

When the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu after the Enlightenment and preached to the Sākiyans, Devadatta was converted together with his…

…Close by was the Pilakkhaguhā and the Paribbājakārāma, where Ānanda once visited Sandaka and held a discussion with him….

…a grass but on the slopes of Isigili and lived there with several others during the rains. He continued to live there after the others had left….

…he was among those who visited the Buddha at Bāvarī’s request. Snp.p.194 The questions he asked of the Buddha on this occasion, and the…

A devaputta who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and tells him that an arahant has to work hard for nothing. The Buddha points out to him that there…

…of Kakkarapatta. There he visited the Buddha and asked for a teaching which would bring happiness both in this world and the next. The Buddha…

A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at the Kalandakanivāpa in Veḷuvana and spoke a verse. SN.i.52

A wanderer. He visited the Buddha at Sūkarakhatalena and the Buddha preached to him the Dīghanakha Sutta, at the end of which he became a…

…of Nāṭaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Nāḷandā, and there followed a discussion on actions and their efficiency. Dīghatapassī…

…Dīghāyu, who was on a visit to the city, saw them. Dīghīti, recognising his son, called to him his dying advice “look not too far nor too…

…of his ministry, the Buddha visited the village and preached to Kāsī-Bhāradvāja the sutta which bears his name and which converted him to the…

…among the devas who visited the Buddha to pay him homage. He is also mentioned among the Nāgas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya…

A brahmin who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and asks him various questions on castes and their distinctions, from the point of view of their…

…in the Mukheluvana and was visited there by Uttara, the disciple of Pārāsariya. Their conversation is recorded in the Indriyabhāvānā Sutta….

…the sun and moon….

…life was poor. Gavesī, realising this, put forth effort and, step by step, attained greater proficiency until, at last, he became an arahant. His…

…the Buddha, on his way to Isipatana, met Upaka. Vin.i.8

The Buddha stayed at Gayā on several occasions: once at Gayāsīsa, Vin.i.34 SN.iv.19…

…teacher of Sāvatthī. He visited the Buddha at the Pubbārāma, and the Buddha preached to him the Gaṇaka-Moggallāna Sutta, after which, it…

…failed to persuade him to visit the Buddha, in the end took him by force. Jotipāla was converted and joined the Order, but Ghaṭīkāra, as the…

…On coming to visit Benares, he saw Udena there in Khemiyambavana and had a conversation with him, recorded in the Ghoṭamukha Sutta….

…were also in the habit of visiting the hill.

Several places are mentioned as having been visited by the Buddha during his sojourns on…

…It was during one of these visits that Ambapāli presented her park to the Buddha and the Order. Vin.i.232

In the Giñjakāvasatha the Buddha…

…lived on the Kāḷasilā in Isigilipassa. There he made various vain attempts to win arahantship, achieving only temporary emancipation of mind,…

…river in Dakkhiṇāpatha, of which it forms the southern boundary, rising in Brahmagiri near the village of Triyanvaka.

18.91278,…

…Āḷavī. The Buddha once stayed there during the cold season and was visited by Hatthaka Āḷavaka. AN.i.136

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…The result of the visit was the preaching of the Cūḷagosiṅga Sutta. MN.i.205f. On another occasion, when the Buddha was staying…

A spot near Benares, visited by the Buddha on his begging rounds. AN.i.280

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…stayed there and was visited by Avantiputta, king of Madhurā, to whom he preached the Madhurā Sutta, MN.ii.83f. and by the brahmin…

…From there he once visited the Buddha and tried to stand in his presence, but collapsed and could not remain upright. The Buddha then asked…

…Buddha stayed there and was visited by Ugga. AN.iv.212 SN.iv.109

On his last journey he again rested in the village….

A headman of Rājagaha who visited the Buddha and asked him what destiny awaited him after death. The Buddha reluctantly replied that he would be…

…name of a brahmin who visited the Buddha at the Ajapālanigrodha seven days after his Enlightenment and asked him questions regarding the true…

…Hāliddakāni visited him and consulted him at length on the subjects treated in Māgandiyapañha SN.iii.9f. and again on those of…

…of Icchānaṅgala. Once he visited the Buddha at Jetavana after a long interval, and on being asked why he had been absent so long, he replied that…

…almost complete solitude, visited only by a single monk who brought him his food. But from the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.30f. AN.iii.341…

…of cows, and when men began to kill these creatures he visited his wrath on them. Snp.310

…which was a brahmin village, east of Rājagaha. Once, when the Buddha was staying there, Sakka visited him and asked him the questions recorded…

…to provide him with all requisites. But that same day Isidatta left Macchikāsaṇḍa and never returned.

Isidatta²

An equerry or…

…brother, also a monk, named Isibhatta. Having spent the rainy season in Sāvatthī, they went to take up their abode in a certain village. The…

…to stay with her any more. Isidāsī then met the therī Jinadattā, whom she entertained to a meal at her house. Under Jinadattā, Isidāsī…

…refer to several other visits of the Buddha to Isigilapassa. During one of these visits he heard Vaṅgīsa’s high eulogy of Moggallāna….

…while the Buddha was at Isipatana, Māra visited him but had to go away discomfited. SN.i.105f.

Besides the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta…

One of the nine divisions (aṅga) into which the Buddha’s preaching was classified in the early texts.

A village which the Buddha visited during his last tour. It lay between Ambagāma and Bhoganagara. DN.ii.194

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…Saṃyutta Nikāya records visits paid by him to Sāriputta at Nālakagāma and discussions between them on various topics, such as nibbāna,…

A prince who once visited the novice Aciravata at Veḷuvana in Rājagaha and asked him to teach the Doctrine. Reluctantly the novice did so, but at…

…invitation to visit Sāvatthī the latter, seeking a suitable place for the Buddha’s residence, discovered this park belonging to…

A bhikkhunī mentioned in the Therīgāthā verses of Isidāsi, who describes Jinadattā as a learned and virtuous expert in the Vinaya. Thig.427

…to carry out the division of the kingdom, which the latter duly did. All the kings wished Jotipāla to be their chaplain, and he instructed…

…with his friend Mandissa, visited the Buddha at the Ghositārāma. DN.i.159 The Buddha preached to them the Jāliya Sutta. According to the…

…the banker Meṇḍaka visited him and provided meals for him and the monks. Vin.i.242f. Meṇḍaka’s grandson, Uggaha, did likewise….

…Sāvatthī, and he often visited the Buddha at Jetavana, consulting him on many topics, such as: results of actions, AN.i.56 Nibbana here and…

…in the grove, and there the Buddha stayed several times. On one such occasion Ajātasattu visited the Buddha and the Sāmaññaphala Sutta was…

…Nikāya SN.ii.18ff. as visiting the Buddha at Sāvatthī and questioning him on right view. The Buddha’s discourse on this occasion is…

…in the Mukheluvana and was visited there by Uttara, the disciple of Pārāsariya. Their conversation is recorded in the Indriyabhāvānā Sutta….

…deva who visited the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa, and asked him whether he experienced feelings of pleasure and sorrow….

…become a slave or vice versa. Elsewhere Kamboja is mentioned as a place not visited by women of other countries. AN.ii.82

35.3219,…

A wandering ascetic who visited the Buddha at Campā, on the banks of Lake Gaggarā together with Pessa the elephant trainer’s son. Pessa saluted…

…brahmin. He visited Mahā Kaccāna at the Gundavana near Madhurā and accused him of not paying due respect to elderly brahmins, but…

…Buddha’s most frequent visitor; to him was preached the Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta. MN.i.91f.

The Dakkhiṇā-vibhaṅga Sutta was…

…in the Brahma-world and visited Gotama, after his Enlightenment. Gotama then reminded him of this past friendship, which Ghaṭīkāra seemed…

…parts. Once some monks who visited him enjoyed his hospitality and stayed on. After some time, feeling that they had outstayed their welcome,…

…It was here that Assaji stayed during his last illness, when the Buddha visited him to comfort him. SN.iii.125

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…festive sowing, the Buddha visited him alone, and stood near the place where food was being distributed to a very large number of people engaged in…

…where she was a constant visitor, and on being told that several of the Buddha’s eminent disciples, such as Sāriputta, Moggallāna, Mahā…

…Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.71

…stayed; he was once visited there by Acela Kassapa, to whom he preached the Kassapasīhanāda Sutta, DN.i.161 and again by Pasenadi, king of…

…When the Licchavis began to visit the Buddha in large numbers, they left the monastery and retired to places of solitude, such as…

…the Buddha was staying in the Pāvārika-ambavana at Nāḷandā, Kevaṭṭa visited him. The interview is recorded in the Kevaṭṭa Sutta….

…and fifty monks, Keṇiya visited the Buddha, bringing various kinds of drinks, which he gave to him and to the monks. The following day he…

…in like circumstances, by Ghaṭīkāra, on the occasion of a visit he paid to the Buddha. SN.i.35 SN.i.60

…devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke several verses on the desirability of leading the good life….

…answer, and Dāsaka had to visit him a fourth time with the inquiry, What did Khemaka mean by self? In exasperation Khemaka came himself to…

…virtues, the king was pleased and sent five hundred cartloads of provisions to Ghaṭīkāra who, however, curtly refused the gift….

…now in that. The Buddha visited them at Pacina-vamsadāya when he was going away, disgusted with the recalcitrant monks of Kosambī. Vin.i.350…

…her story is like that of Paṭācārā.

The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.129f. records a visit paid to her by Māra as she sat resting in…

…Cūḷa-Kokanadā. They visited the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā and spoke verses in praise of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Saṅgha….

…delivered during these visits are recorded in the books.

A great division once arose among the monks in Kosambī. Some monks charged one of…

…townships of the Koliyans, visited by the Buddha or by his disciples, are mentioned in literature, e.g. Uttara, the residence of the headman…

…came from Vesāli to visit him, and Ambapāli gave him a meal. From Koṭigāma the Buddha went to Nādikā. Vin.i.230f.…

…and on the occasion of this visit they decided that any inhabitant of Kusinārā who failed to go and meet the Buddha and escort him to the city,…

A Paribbājaka who visits the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa. He asks the Buddha what profit comes from the Buddha’s way of living.

The…

…of the seven political divisions mentioned in the time of the mythical king Reṇu and is given first in the list, its capital being Dantapura…

…by the Buddha on his visit to Kesaputta is justly famous. AN.i.188ff. Among members of this family specially mentioned by name are…

…recorded in the Kāmabhū Sutta. SN.iv.165 Two other suttas bearing the same name record visits paid to Kāmabhū by Cittagahapati at…

A devaputta who visited the Buddha and told him that the path of the Ariyan disciples was hard to follow and their goal hard to win. The Buddha…

…village in which was the mango grove of Todeyya. Udāyī once stayed there and was visited by a resident pupil of the brahmin lady of the…

…a scholar of ability.“ He visited the Buddha at Opasāda, where he interrupted a conversation which the Buddha was holding with some aged…

The black rock by the side of Isigili.

It was there that Godhika SN.i.120f. and Vakkali SN.iii.124 committed suicide.

It was a lonely spot, and…

…was time for the Buddha to visit his kinsmen, and gave him their invitation, singing the season’s beauties in a series of verses. He was declared…

…time after, when the Buddha visited the place with a large company of monks, including Sāriputta and Moggallāna, the Assajipunabbasukā, were…

…the Buddha would often visit the patients and talk with them. SN.iv.210f. AN.iii.142

The books also contain the names of others who stayed…

…it would appear that these visions were seen again on several occasions. SN.ii.254 Vin.iii.104ff.

When Moggallāna related his vision, some of…

…There Bimbisāra visited him with twelve nahutas of followers, and Uruvelā Kassapa dispelled their doubts by declaring his acceptance…

…Saccaka the Nigaṇṭha visited the Buddha at Mahāvana, he was accompanied by five hundred Licchavis, who did not all salute the Buddha as…

…and told him this. Lohicca visited Kaccāna and discussed with him these statements, and, at the end of the talk, declared himself Kaccāna’s…

…MN.iii.199f. Candana visited Lomasakaṅgiya in the Nigrodhārāma in Kapilavatthu, and questioned him on the Bhaddekaratta Sutta. When…

…there, and the place was visited by Sāriputta and Moggalāna and also by Acela Kassapa. SN.iv.300

According to the Vinaya, Vin.ii.15f. they…

…of the Satullapa group visited the Buddha there and told him of their great admiration for his qualities. Māra tried to stir up discontent in…

…of Ujjeni. Madhurā was visited by the Buddha, AN.ii.57 AN.iii.256 but there is no record of his having stayed there. In fact, the Madhura Sutta…

…him were Sonakutikanna, Isidatta, Avantiputta, Lohicca, Ārāmadaṇḍa, and Kandarāyana.

He often stayed in Avantī, where King…

…and accompanied by him he visited the nunnery and preached to the nuns. He was probably not popular among certain nuns, for, at the end of his…

…SN.iii.172–177 two on arising, SN.iii.173 and three on ignorance and knowledge. SN.iii.17 Another similar sutta is on sense and sense objects,…

…chief, mentioned as having visited the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā to ask if he had seen Sakka SN.i.230 and also to beg information as to the…

…petas and other spirits invisible to the ordinary mortal eye. SN.ii.254ff. We are told SN.v.366f. that Moggallāna’s visits to the deva…

…occasion, Mahānāma visited the Buddha at Nigrodhārāma where the Buddha was convalescing after a severe illness, and at once Mahānāma…

…as there were no monks to visit her and preach to her the Buddha went himself to preach to her. Vin.iv.56

Her Therīgāthā verses speak of…

…because, on the arising of wickedness in the world, he was chosen by the people DN.iii.92f. to show indignation against and disapproval…

A locality in Avanti. Mahā Kaccāna once stayed there in a forest hut and was visited by Lohicca and his pupils. SN.iv.116f.

Avanti3town

…that Pasenadi was on a visit to the Buddha when a man came with the whispered message that the queen was dead. It was a terrible shock, “his…

…Once a large number of them visited Anuruddha at the Ghositirāma and announced to him that in a trice they could assume any colour they desired,…

MaṇimālikaMaṇimālaka

A shrine where the Buddha stayed and where he was visited by the Yakkha Maṇibhadda. SN.i.208

4shrine

…the Buddha was there and visited him. On this occasion was preached the Dhammacetiya Sutta. This was the last time that Pasenadi saw the…

…disciples of Bāvarī who visited the Buddha. His question to the Buddha was as to how various ills originated in the world, and the Buddha’s…

…the Buddha with abundant provisions of all sorts, entertaining the Buddha and his monks with luxurious food and fresh milk. At the end of the meal,…

A woman follower of the Buddha. She was the daughter of Pūraṇa, chamberlain of Pasenadi, and niece of Isidatta. AN.iii.347 AN.v.137

…mentions him during a visit to the Buddha and remarks on his immense wealth. But the Buddha reminds him that Migāra’s treasure is not real…

A Paribbājaka. He once visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and questioned him regarding predestination. The Buddha explains to him that suffering…

…who lived at Kukkuṭārāma in Pāṭaliputta and persuaded him to visit the king. Nārada preached to him, and his sorrow vanished.

…commercial centre, and was visited by people from all parts of Northern India in search of commerce and of learning. The kings of Māgadha…

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

…Māra is represented as visiting Gotama on the banks of the Nerañjara, where he is practicing austerities and tempting him to abandon his…

MātulaMatula

A village in Māgadha, where the Buddha stayed and where he preached the Cakkavattisīhanāda Sutta. Aiii.58

Māgadha3town

…devaputta. He visited the Buddha in the company of Asama, Sahali, Ninka, Ākoṭaka and Vetambarī, and while these all spoke in…

…paid his last visit to the Buddha, as recorded in the Dhammacetiya Sutta. MN.ii.118

The Buddha evidently once stayed in Nagaraka, for…

…sotāpannas. The Buddha visited their village once more when they were old. They entertained him, telling of their devotion to each other in…

…sotāpannas. The Buddha visited their village once more when they were old. They entertained him, telling of their devotion to each other in…

…devaputta who visited the Buddha and had a conversation with him. S.i.62.

Nanda⁶Kumāputta

A monk whose Theragāthā…

…of the Licchavis who visited the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesali. The Buddha tells him that the Ariyan disciple, possessed of…

…devaputta who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthī and asked him questions regarding virtue, wisdom, etc. The Buddha answered them, and he…

A deva who visits the Buddha and converses with him on the nature of the body and its riddance. SN.i.63 SN.i.15

…and from time to time he visited the Buddha. At the end of the rains, when the Buddha and the monks were about to start on tour, Nandiya went to…

…grove near Verañja where the Buddha spent part of his time on his visit to Nerañjā. Vin.iii.1 AN.iv.172…

…comprising knowledge and vision. “Whether I walk or stand or sleep or wake,” he is mentioned as saying, “my knowledge and vision are…

…AN.v.334 The Buddha himself visited Kāḷigodhā during his residence there. It was during a discussion with Mahānāma that the Cūḷa…

NiṅkaNika

A deva who visits the Buddha in the company of several other devas and utters a verse in praise of Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta. SN.i.65f.

…the Order when the Buddha visited his kinsmen at Kapilavatthu. For some time he was the Buddha’s personal attendant—e.g., when the Buddha…

…by the Buddha’s Enlightenment. This Nālaka did. When the time came, he visited the Buddha to ask about the way of practice. Snp.838–862

…suggested that he should visit Nārada. The king agreed, and Nārada preached to him on the inevitable ness of old age, disease, death, etc….

…SN.ii.311–323

The Buddha visited Nāḷandā during his last tour through Māgadha, and it was there that Sāriputta uttered his “lion’s…

…the Licchavis. He went to visit the Buddha at the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesalī, at a time when the Buddha had given orders that no one should be…

…a religion. In the Isigili Sutta MN.iii.68ff. appears a long list of Pacceka Buddhas who dwelt on the Isigili Mountain, and after whom…

…in Verañja he visited the Buddha. In answer to a question, Pahārāda tells the Buddha that there are eight wonderful characteristics…

…Ajātasattu is said to have visited him and obtained from him an exposition of his teaching, which was to the effect that the four elements—earth,…

…their journeys they would visit each other in order to exchange greetings of courtesy and to engage in profitable discussion. The utmost…

…preached his first sermon at Isipatana.

All five joined in the austerities of Gotama at Uruvelā. When he abandoned his austerities and started to…

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and uttered a verse to the effect that the man who understands jhāna finds room even among…

…trainer of Campā. He visited the Buddha at Gaggarāpokkharanī where Kandaraka was also present, and his conversation on that occasion is…

…as having been visited during his illness by the Buddha on the suggestion of Ānanda. The Buddha found Phagguna in bed and grievously…

…give permission for the provision of suitable remedies. Vin.i.204f.

Once Bimbisāra found Pilinda, clearing a cave in order to provide a cell…

…grievously ill, the Buddha visited him and cheered him by talking to him of the seven bojjhangas. SN.v.79 On another occasion, Mahā Kassapa…

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. He visited the Buddha at Jetavana and the Buddha preached to him the Cūḷasāropama Sutta, at the end of which he declared…

…At the time that he visited the Buddha with the other disciples he was 120 years old and very feeble. At the end of his discussion with the…

…he was returning from a visit to the Buddha, asks him about the Buddha’s wisdom. Piṅgiyāni utters the Buddha’s praises with a wealth of…

A wanderer who visited Samiddhi at the Vejuvana in Rājagaha and said that he had heard the Buddha declare that all action and speech were vain, and…

…three days later he again visited the Buddha with Citta Hatthisāriputta>, when the Buddha continued the earlier discussion on personality and…

…ordination by the Buddha, visited him and were taken to the Buddha. The Buddha talked to them and they became arahants. They were among the first…

…He was the brother of Isidatta and the father of Migasālā. In his later years he lived the life of a celibate and was reborn in Tusita as a…

…naked ascetic who visited the Buddha at Haliddavasana, together with Seniya Kukkuravatika. Puṇṇa questioned the Buddha regarding the…

…disciples of Bāvarī, who visited the Buddha. Snp.1006 His conversation with the Buddha is given in the Puṇṇakamāṇavapucchā….

A monk. He is mentioned as visiting the Buddha and asking him under what conditions a sermon presents itself to the mind of a Tathāgata….

…AN.iv.228f. The Buddha visited it during his tours, and once, while staying there with Meghiya, the latter stopped in a mango grove in the…

…fifth and last division of the Sutta Nipāta. Snp.976ff. It consists of sixteen suttas preceded by an introduction. The introduction…

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…

…a liar. Later, the Buddha visited the hermitage of Pātikaputta, with a large following, in order to refute his claims, but Pātikaputta avoided…

…the Mallas which the Buddha visited during his last journey, going there from Bhogagāma and stopping at Cunda’s mango grove.

Cunda lived in…

…the Buddha stayed when on a visit there. DN.ii.81 It was there that he preached the Kevaṭṭa Sutta, the Sampasādanīya Sutta and the Upāli…

A headsman of Uttara who visited the Buddha and questioned him regarding his power of magic. Several conversations he had with the Buddha, on various…

…on condition that he would visit them after his ordination. Raṭṭhapāla accompanied the Buddha to Sāvatthī, and there, dwelling alone, he…

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

…Dhataratthas.

The seven divisions of the kingdom were called Kalinga, Assaka, Avanti, Sovīra, Videha, Aṅga and Kāsi; their capitals were,…

A devaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Jetavana and asked if one could, by travelling, reach the end of the world where there would be no…

…When the Buddha and Ānanda visited Kusinārā, the Malla chieftains decreed that whoever failed to pay homage to the Buddha would be fined five…

…Buddha. When the Buddha visited Kapilavatthu for the first time after his Enlightenment and accepted Suddhodana’s invitation, Rāhula’s…

…day of the Buddha’s visit to Kapilavatthu Rāhulamātā sent Rāhula to him saying, “That is your father, go and ask him for your…

…hills, with the exception of Isigili, were once known by other names e.g., Vaṅkaka for Vepulla. SN.ii.191 The Saṃyutta SN.i.206 mentions another…

SabbakaSappaka

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of his joy in living on the banks of the Ajakaraṇī, practising meditation. Thag.307–310.

…of Makkhali Gosāla. He visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in the company of several other Devas, and spoke a verse in praise of Makkhali….

…thereof. Sahampati again visited the Buddha, simultaneously with Sakka, and as they stood leaning against a doorpost of the Buddha’s cell,…

A wanderer who visited the Buddha at Gijjhakūṭa. The Buddha told him of the nine standards which an arahant monk cannot possibly transgress….

…admits DN.ii.284 that he visited other brahmins and recluses as well. They were pleased to see him, and boasted that they had nothing to teach…

…present when the Buddha visited the Paribbājakārāma on the Sappinī River and talked to the Paribbājakas there.AN.ii.29 AN.ii.176 In these…

…Once when Sakka went to visit the Buddha he found him in the Salaḷāgāra, wrapt in samādhi, with Bhuñjatī waiting on him. Sakka therefore…

…SN.i.153 he is spoken of as visiting the Buddha on the banks of the Sappinī, and it was during this visit that the above verse was spoken….

SandhaSaddha

A monk who visited the Buddha at Ñātikā in the Giñjakāvasatha, when the Buddha preached to him the Sandha Sutta. AN.v.323f.

It…

…This so distressed him that he was about to commit suicide, when, inward vision suddenly expanding, he attained arahantship. Thag.405–410

…Buddha, being told of this, visited the Paribbājakārāma, on the banks of the Sappinikā, and challenged Sarabha to repeat his statement. Three…

…boundary between the two divisions of Kosala, Uttara and Dakkhiṇa Kosala. The Aciravatī was its tributary. Sāketa was situated on the banks of…

…SN.i.16–22 a whole group of suttas in which these devas are stated to have visited the Buddha, asking him several questions on different topics.

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

Another Saṃyutta…

…Keṇiya, the Jaṭila, and visited him when Keṇiya was making preparations to entertain the Buddha. Having heard the word “Buddha” from…

…like a dog. After his visit to the Buddha, as recorded in the Kukkuravatika Sutta, he joined the Order and, in due course, became an arahant….

A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and held a conversation with him regarding the giving of food. He tells the Buddha that he was…

SikhaḍḍīSikhaṇḍī

A Gandhabba, son of Mātali; Bhaddā Suriyavaccasā was at first in love with him, but she was won later by Pañcasikha. DN.ii.268

…brahmin who once visited the Buddha, saying that he had been told by Soṇakāyana that the Buddha preached the ineffectiveness of all…

The Indus river, one of the most important of those that flow from the Himālaya.

Isidāsī was once born as a goat in Sindhavārañña, the “Forest of the Sindhu”. Thig.438

Indus1river

…to Ānanda asking him to visit him. Ānanda, went and preached to him on the four satipaṭṭhānas. Sirivaḍḍha became an anāgāmī….

The name of a god. A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta SN.i.56 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good.

…in the Gomagga and was visited by Hatthaka of Āḷavī. AN.i.136

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A grove in…

…privacy, approached her, invisible in the air, and teased her, remarking on the “two finger” wsidom of women. Somā rebuked him, saying that…

…becomes an arahant. He then visits the Buddha and declares to him his new found vision. AN.iii.374f. Thag.632

The Vinaya Vin.i.179ff. gives…

…Soṇadaṇḍa visited him in spite of the protests of his friends and colleagues. Their conversation is recorded in the…

…brahman student. He once visited the Buddha in Sāvatthī, asking him various questions. The interview is described in the Subha Sutta….

…the Buddha was there, he visited the Avihā gods DN.ii.50 and, again, from there he visited Baka Brahmā, to whom he preached the…

…the ninth Rūpa-world; a division of the Subha devā.MN.iii.102 DN.ii.69 MN.i.2 Beings are born in that world as a result of developing the third…

…of the Buddha, and, after visiting him together with Suddhavāsa, he went on to another Brahmā, who was infatuated with his own importance….

…or palmistry. Sucimukhī understood, and went about Rājagaha praising the blamelessness of Sākiyan monks. SN.iii.238f.

…devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke two stanzas on the value of earnestness….

…with Subrahmā, went to visit the Buddha, but, finding him in meditation during the noonday heat, went to see a certain Brahmā who was…

…brahmin who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and stated that a man can be purified only by knowledge of the Vedas. The Buddha answered…

…they attain arahantship.

The Buddha is mentioned as having visited the Suddhāvāsā. DN.ii.50

5heaven

…of several eminent monks, visited Macchikāsaṇḍa and stayed in the monastery. Citta heard Sāriputta preach, and, at the end of the sermon,…

…Both she and his father visited him as he was eating the rice, and his father took him by the hand and led him home. There he was provided with…

…One day, when the Buddha visited Anāthapiṇḍika’s house, she was scolding the servants. The Buddha stopped what he was saying, and, asking…

…went Rājagaha about praising her and exhorting others to listen to her Dhamma. Thig.54–56 SN.i.212 SN.i.213

Sukkā²

A class of…

…with Khema. Together they visited the Buddha, and, when Khema had gone away, Sumana talked with the Buddha about arahants. AN.iii.348f. He may…

…AN.iv.347 She once visited the Buddha, with five hundred royal maidens in five hundred royal chariots, and questioned him regarding the…

…Buddha. MN.iii.70

Sumbha²

A country in which was Desaka, where Udāyi visited the Buddha during a stay, and had a conversation with…

…an army, with its four divisions, enter a lotus stalk. He then thought he must be mad and told everyone so. The Buddha explained that what the…

…might worship him, and, raising the end of his robe, took his penis into her mouth. A doubt arose in his mind as to whether any blame attached to…

…to the Buddha, who said that no power in the world would change Suppabuddha. Soon after, Suppabuddha visited the Buddha, and, having worshipped…

…bore no more fruit. Koravya visited Sakka and consulted him. Sakka sent a squall to punish the deva and made the deva appear before him full of…

…Sajjanela, where the Buddha visited her and preached to her on the efficacy of giving food. AN.ii.62f. She was described by the Buddha as foremost…

…Order. One day, while on a visit to the monastery, Suppiyā saw a sick monk who needed a meat broth. On her return home, she sent an attendant to…

…Buddha stayed.

During his visits there he preached the Anumāna Sutta MN.i.95f. and the Bodhirāja Sutta. MN.ii.91f. The city was the…

…Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a nominal list. MN.iii.69

Sutavā²

A wanderer who visited the Buddha on Gijjhakūṭa and questioned…

A village in Kosala where Isidatta and Purāṇa once stayed. SN.v.348

…he time when Soṇa Kolvisa visited Bimbisāra, with overseers of the eighty thousand townships of Bimbisāra’s kingdom. Sāgata was endowed with…

…as Jatilagāhikā, visited him and questioned him regarding concentration. AN.iv.427 Among others who lived in Sāketa were…

…the Buddha first visited them, after his Enlightenment, they refused to honour him on account of his youth. The Buddha then performed a…

…SN.iv.261f. as having visited Sāriputta at Ukkacela and questioned him regarding Nibbāna, and again AN.v.121f. at Nālakagāma, where he…

…with grief, and, when Sānu visited her, he found her weeping. She told him that he was as good as dead in that he had rejected the Buddha’s…

…his friend Hemavata to visit the Buddha on an uposatha day. Hemavata then asked the Buddha a series of questions. Snp.176–205

Sātāgira…

…are set there.

His first visit there was at the invitation of Anāthapiṇḍika. The chief patrons of the Buddha in Sāvatthī were…

…once visited Nandaka Thera with Pekkhuniya’s grandson, Rohana. AN.i.193f. He built a vihāra for the nuns and…

…it is possible to show the visible results of giving. The Buddha, by means of a counter question, elicits from Sīha that the giver has his reward…

…in the company of Ānanda, visited the nuns and preached to them. She expressed resentment that Kassapa should dare to preach in the presence of…

…of Majjhimadesa. Vin.i.197 It was in the Kosala country and belonged to the Mallas, and was once visited by the Buddha. Ud.vii.9

on the western…

A brahmin. He once visited the Buddha and spoke in praise of tevijja brahmins. The Buddha explained to him that the threefold lore of the Ariyan…

A cave outside Rājagaha where lodgings were provided for visiting monks. Vin.ii.76 Vin.iii.159

outside Rājagaha3monastery

…of Metteyya. They together visited the Buddha at Jetavana and, having listened to his teaching, entered the Order. Metteyya retired with his…

…disciple of Bāvarī. He visited the Buddha with his colleagues and when the Buddha answered his questions, he, and his thousand pupils became…

…of Bāvarī. Snp.1006 He visited the Buddha, and his questions, with the answers given by the Buddha, are given in the…

…in Kosala, between Sāvatthī and Sāketa. Pasenadi once stopped there and visited Khemā, who lived there. SN.iv.374

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…was grievously ill, Tudu visited him and exhorted him to put his trust in Sāriputta and Moggallāna. But Kokālika refused to accept his advice…

…(e.g., Purāṇa and Isidatta) are born there. AN.iii.348 AN.v.138

It is the rule for all Bodhisattas to be born in Tusita in their last…

…of Rājagaha. One day he visited the Buddha and asked if it was true that players who delight large audiences are reborn among the gods of…

A devaputta. He visited the Buddha at Sāvatthī and uttered certain verses in the hearing of the monks, telling of the necessity of following the…

…and who was capable of realising its import at once, his thoughts turned to Uddaka, but Uddaka was already dead. Vin.i.7

In the Vassakāra Sutta…

…Buddha’s death.

Udena visited Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja to learn how young monastics curbed their passions, at which meeting Udena declared…

…his father, paid his first visit to the Buddha and saw the Buddha seated amidst the monks in a scene of perfect calm and silence, his first thought…

…It was only on his third visit to Verahaccāni that Udāyī preached to her and she thereupon became a follower of the Faith….

…SN.iv.109f. records a visit paid to the Buddha by Ugga, at Hatthigāmaka. He asked the Buddha why it was that some beings attained full…

…were to be slaughtered, he visited the Buddha at Jetavana to consult him as to the efficacy of the sacrifice. Three times he told the Buddha that…

…pleasance at the Samayappavādaka hall, the carpenter, Pañcakaṅga, on his way to see the Buddha, visited him and had a conversation with him,…

…mentioned in the list in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

Ujjaya²

A monk whose verse is in the Theragāthā. Thag.67

Ujjaya³

A…

…was also the birthplace of Isidāsī. Thig.405

We find Māhissatī mentioned just before Ujjenī among the places passed by Bāvarī’s pupils…

…a group of devas who once visited the Buddha at Jetavana late at night. They charged the Buddha with inconsistency, but later, begging his…

…Paribbājaka Sāmaṇḍaka visited him and talked to him about Nibbāna. SN.iv.261–262 Some time later, after the death of Sāriputta and…

…way from Ukkalā, when they visited the Buddha shortly after his Awakening, near Uruvelā, and offered food to him, becoming the first lay…

…and then went himself to visit the Buddha.

There was a road which connected Ukkaṭṭha with Setavyā. AN.ii.37

It was in the Subhagavana at…

…in the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli, but when the Licchavis went there to visit the Buddha, they moved to the Gosiṅgasālavana in search of…

…SN.i.35 SN.i.60 records a visit paid to the Buddha by Upaka and six other beings born in Avihā.

Upaka²Maṇḍikāputta

He once…

…he is mentioned as visiting the houses of his acquaintances and being found by the husbands, seated alone with their wives….

A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

…AN.i.24 He visited the Buddha when the Buddha had enjoined on himself a period of solitude for a fortnight; the monks had agreed…

A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

One of the disciples of Bāvarī. Snp.1007 The questions he asked the Buddha, when he visited him in the company of his colleagues, are recorded in the Upasīva-māṇavaa-pucchā. Snp.1069–1076

…Subhadda visited the Buddha in the earlier part of the last night of his life, was converted and gained admission into the Order,…

…once regarding the arising of suffering SN.ii.41–2 and once on the immediate and practical use of the Dhamma. SN.iv.41 There is also…

Uppala¹

A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

Uppala²

A hell realm. SN.i.152 Snp.p.126

5hell

…an account of his visit to the Buddha in the Pāvārika Mango-grove. Upāli undertook to go himself to the Buddha and refute his views,…

…to him a sermon on the arising and the cessation of Ill. SN.iv.327f. It was perhaps on the same occasion that the Buddha was visited by the…

…Uruvelā the Buddha went to Isipatana, but after, he had made sixty-one arahants and sent them out on tour to preach the Doctrine, he returned to…

…two hundred.

The Buddha visited Uruvelā-Kassapa and took lodging for the night where the sacred fire was kept, in spite of Kassapa’s warning…

…at Ujuññā on business, visited the Buddha. On this occasion was preached the Kaṇṇakatthala Sutta. MN.ii.125ff.

It was here too that…

…³

A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. MN.iii.70

…of Pārāsariya. He once visited the Buddha at Kajaligalā in the Mukheluvana and the Buddha preached to him the Indriya-bhāvanā Sutta….

The northern division of Jambudīpa. Its boundaries are nowhere explicitly stated in Pāḷi literature. Perhaps Uttarāpatha was originally the name…

A brahmin. He once visited the Buddha at Sāvatthī and asked him whether the five sense-faculties, which were of different scope and range, had any…

…in addition to his visits to Rājagaha. MN.i.489

in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.i.180f. a Vacchagotta who is a wanderer visits the Buddha…

…hurl if necessary. He was visible only to the Buddha and the person in question.

Two instances of this are given in the books—once in the case…

…places besides Vesāli visited by the Buddha, are mentioned Ukkacela, Koṭigāma, Nādikā, Beluvagāma, Bhaṇḍagāma, Bhogagāma and…

…at his request, the Buddha visited him and comforted him. He questioned Vakkali, who assured him that he had no cause to reprove himself with…

…he left him and went to Isipatana, where the Buddha preached to him and the others the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Soon after, Vappa and his…

VaraṇāVāraṇā

A city on the banks of the Kaddamadaha, where Ārāmadaṇḍa visited Mahākaccāna. AN.i.65

Avanti3town

…suggestion, Vassakāra visited the Buddha to discover, indirectly, whether, in the Buddha’s view, there were any chances of Ajātasattu…

…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 ask for…

…mountain in Mahisa country. A monk, named Uttara, once lived there and was visited by Sakka. AN.iv.162ff.

Sankheyyaka mountain in…

…Ceylon, he went there to visit his mother and stayed for one month in the monastery, which was also called Vedisagiri. Dpv.vi.15; Dpv.xii.14,…

…was the Indasālaguhā, where the Buddha stayed. The mountain was bathed in radiance when Sakka visited the Buddha on the occasion of the preaching…

…to Sakka. When Moggallāna visited Sakka to discover if he had fully understood the Buddha’s teaching in the Cūlatanhā saṅkhaya Sutta, Sakka…

…stay in Kosala, the Buddha visited the ārāma in which Kassapa Buddha had preached to Jotipāla, and there he himself preached the Ghaṭīkāra…

…Vepacitti lay ill, Sakka visited him and offered to cure him if he would teach him Sambara’s magic art. Vepacitti consulted the Asuras, and, as…

…A pupil of hers, having visited Udāyi, then staying in the Todeyya mango grove, told her of his excellences.

He was asked to invite Udāyī to…

…to some brahmins who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthī, whither they had gone on business. The books also record AN.iv.198f. a visit paid by…

…went with Sakka to visit the Buddha during his siesta. They waited upon the Buddha, leaning against a doorpost, and each uttered two…

…length the Buddha’s last visit to Vesāli on his way to Kusinārā. On the last day of this visit, after his meal, he went with Ānanda to…

One of a group of devas who visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and spoke of their beliefs. Vetambarī spoke two verses, one condemning asceticism, and…

…Moggallāna and Sāriputta visited the place in the course of a journey in Dakkhiṇāgiri and were entertained by Nandamātā….

…was endowed with the six requisite qualities.

Once she rose before dawn and sang the Parāyana. Vessavaṇa happened to be passing over her house…

…When the Buddha first visited Rājagaha, after his Enlightenment, he stayed at the Latthivanuyyāna. Vin.i.35 The day after his arrival, he…

A devaputta. He visited the Buddha and asked him a question. SN.i.52

…MN.i.299f. Visākha then visited the Buddha and reported their conversation to him, winning the Buddha’s praises for…

…on one of her presents. She visited Pasenadi several times, trying to get the matter settled; but he had no time to give to the matter, and, in the…

…Vāseṭṭha’s first visit to the Buddha was on the occasion of the preaching of the Vāseṭṭha Sutta, at the conclusion of which he…

VīrāCīrā

A certain lay follower gave her a robe, and a Yakkha aware of this, went about praising his piety. SN.i.213

…end of the enquiry the decision was given against the ten points of the Vajjian monks, and this decision was conveyed to the assembly. Then the…

…Some time after, the Buddha visited Vesāli during a journey and asked Ānanda to send for Yasoja and his friends as he desired to see them. Ānanda…

A headman who visited the Buddha and asked if it was true that men who fall fighting in battle are reborn among the Sārañjita devas. At first the…

A deva who visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana accompanied by Asama, Sahali, Ninka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya. Ākoṭaka spoke before the Buddha…

…secure timber wherewith to build three hundred ships in preparation for Mahosadha’s visit to the capital of Pañcala in order to erect buildings…

…capital. The Buddha once visited the city with 1,250 monks and the whole company was entertained by the Jaṭila Keṇiya. Vin.i.245ff. From…

…large company of bhikkhus, visited the town. At that time there dwelt in it a monk who had been ordained late in life and had formerly been a…

…the Buddha describes his visit to Āḷāra. Gotama quickly mastered his doctrine and was able to repeat it by heart; but feeling sure that…