A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a nominal list. MN.iii.70

…when the Buddha, out of compassion for him, appears before his house for alms, he says the meal is meant only for one who has the “threefold…

…that the Buddha extols compassion to clansmen? Why, then, does the Buddha ask for alms in a place stricken with famine? The Buddha’s answer is…

…(for the recalcitrant were passionate and violent), to carry out the Pabbājanīyakamma (Act of Banishment) against them. The deputation of the…

Bandhumatī¹

The city of birth of Vipassī Buddha. DN.i.7

5townBandhumatī²

Wife of King Bandhumā and mother of Vipassī Buddha. DN.i.7

…parents with pride and compassion brought him to the Buddha to be ordained. Ānanda gave him the going forth, and the same night Bhadda became an…

…(DhA.iii.429), the road passing through Bhaddiya Vin.i.189, and between there and Takkasilā DhA.i.123. It was the custom for enthusiastic…

…to the Pāsāṇaka cetiya, passing through Setavyā, Kapilavatthu, Kusinārā, Pāvā, Bhoganagara and Vesāli. When they arrived before the…

…the one man gives way to passion, resentment and illusion; therefore, others harass him; he shows vexation and comes to be called wrathful. The…

A Nigaṇṭha, follower of Nāṭaputta. He once visited the Buddha at Nāḷandā, and there followed a discussion on actions and their efficiency. Dīghatapassī reported this discussion to Nāṭaputta and Upāli, …

…across the Ganges, the route passing through Verañjā, Soreyya, Sankassa, Kannakujja, Payāgatittha, here crossing the river to Benares…

…in samādhi, and a yakkha, passing overhead with his friend to an assembly of yakkhas, yielded, despite the warning of his friend, to the…

…to Sahajāti, this road passing through Kaṇṇakujja, Udumbara, and Aggalapura. Vin.ii.299

Verañja to Bārāṇasī, across the Ganges, the…

…friend of Sūciloma. He was passing through Gayā with Sūciloma when the latter questioned the Buddha on his doctrine, as recorded in the…

The chief disciple of Vipassī Buddha. DN.ii.11 DN.ii.40

…to have been a land route passing through Anupiya and Kosambī to Rājagaha. Vin.ii.184f. In the Sutta Nipāta Snp.1010–1013 the whole route…

The name of a clan (gotta). It was evidently common to both brahmans and khattiyas, for we find the brahman Aññāta-Koṇḍañña belonging to it, as well as the three Buddhas Vipassī, Sikhī and Vessab …

…shining in their midst, surpassing them all, once uttered the Buddha’s praises in verse, winning, as reward from the Licchavis, five hundred…

…happiness but also out of compassion for those who came after him, that they might attain to the same end. Even when he was old and the Buddha…

Nigaṇṭha NāṭaputtaNigaṇṭha NāthaputtaNāthaputtaNāṭaputta

Founder or reformer of the Jains. One of six eminent teachers, contemporary with the Buddha; he is described as a outsider. SN.i.66

He was le …

…Nālagiri as a means of encompassing the Buddha’s death. Nālagiri was a fierce animal, and in order to increase his fierceness, Devadatta…

NāḷandāNālaNālakaNālikaUpatissagāma

Mentioned as a brahmin village in Māgadha, not far from Rājagaha. SN.iv.251 AN.v.120 AN.v.121 SN.v.161

Also mentioned as a town near Rājagaha. The Buddha is menti …

His Theragāthā verses speak of his helping his relatives to practice generosity, so they attained a favorable rebirth. Thag.240–242

…to Benares, the road passing through Soreyya, Saṅkassa and Kaṇṇakujja, and crossing the Ganges at Payāga. Vin.iii.11 It was one of…

…wise one knows the rise and passing away of the world. Thag.10

Puṇṇamāsa²

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of seeing…

…alone and unattended, and passing through Bālaklonakāragāma and Pācīnavaṃsadāya, went to Pārileyyaka, where he stayed at the foot of…

…means of the power of his compassion, Rojā was induced to visit him again. The Buddha preached to Rojā, who asked, as a boon, that the monks…

…to Rājagaha, passing through Māhissati, Ujjeni, Gonaddha, Vedisa. Vanasavhaya, Kosambī, Sāketa, Sāvatthī, Setavyā,…

…and Yasa followed him, passing through Saṅkassa, Kaṇṇakujja, Udumbara and Aggalapura. Sahajāti was on the river, and the Vajjiputtakas…

…to Brahmā. Out of compassion for her, Sahampati appeared before her and exhorted her to give her offerings to Brahmadeva instead….

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

…lived. Vin.ii.299 There was a direct route from Verañja to Payāgatiṭṭha, passing through Soreyya, Saṅkassa and Kaṇṇakuja….

…this the occasion for the passing of a rule against the use of alcohol. Vin.iv.108f.

The Buddha later declared him foremost among those…

…Khara, happened to be passing by, and Sūciloma, coming up to the Buddha, bent his body against the Buddha’s. The Buddha bent his body in…

…enjoy his wealth, and died intestate, all his possessions passing to the royal treasury.

…lay life. Later, Metteyya, passing through the village with the Buddha, during a journey, visited Tissa and brought him once more to the Buddha….

…young monastics curbed their passions, at which meeting Udena declared himself a follower of the Buddha. SN.iv.110f.

Udena²

A thera….

Upāli ¹

One of the most eminent of the Buddha’s immediate disciples. He belonged to a barber’s family in Kapilavatthu and entered the service of the Sākiyan princes. When Anuruddha and his …

…to a world blinded by passions and prejudices. The Brahmā Sahampati thereupon entreated the Buddha not to give way to such…

…the Buddha went to Benares, passing through Soreyya, Saṅkassa and Kaṇṇakujja, and crossing the Ganges at Payāgapatiṭṭhāna. From Benares…

…Vessavaṇa happened to be passing over her house on his way from north to south, and hearing the song, stopped at her window to praise it and to…

A Buddha of the past, whose story is told in the Mahāpadāna Sutta. He was born in the Khema park in Bandhumatī, his father being Bandhumā and his mother Bandhumatī. He belonged to the Koṇḍañña gotta. …

…was sitting in the open air and neither saw nor heard five hundred passing carts though he was awake and conscious.