He was a fisherman’s son and held the false view that, according to the Buddha’s teaching, a man’s consciousness runs on and continues without break of identity. Sāti’s colleagues did their best to ch …

…ascetics. Their conversation is recorded in the Kassapa-Sīhanāda Sutta. DN.i.161ff. After the usual four months’ probation, he joined…

A novice who had a conversation with Prince Jayasena on the life of the bhikkhu. Aciravata repeats this conversation to the Buddha who thereupon…

…in his own powers of improvisation (paṭibhāna). SN.i.187 Here, again, the Buddha utters the praises of Hatthaka Āḷavaka, who visits him…

…Several other conversations held here with Māra are recorded in the Saṃyutta. SN.i.103f.

Here, also, the Buddha spent some time…

…But Devadatta was not satisfied till Bimbisāra, who was one of the Buddha’s foremost supporters, was killed.

Ajātasattu helped Devadatta…

…Sutta. DN.ii.286 Sakka speaks of them as the highest devas, and expresses his satisfaction that he, too, will be born among them in his last life.

…being on the value of the satipaṭṭhāna. SN.v.141ff. In the third sutta AN.iv.100–106 he dwells on the impermanence of all sankhāras…

…to have opened his conversation by reviling the Sākiyans and calling them menials. It appears that Ambaṭṭha had once gone on some business…

…was well grounded in the satipaṭṭhāna. SN.v.302 Apart from his teaching of the satipaṭṭhāna, he does not seem to have found fame as…

…exists after death; dissatisfied with his answer they called him “fool” and went away. Thereupon Anurādha sought advice from the Buddha,…

AsurindakabhāradvājaAsurindakaBhāradvāja

A brahmin, one of three brothers who had conversations with the Buddha and were converted. SN.i.163f.

…account, DN.ii.235 Māhissati is mentioned as having been, at least for some time, the capital of Avanti. It is quite likely that ancient Avanti…

…him there, amid their conversation is recorded in the Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta. MN.i.349ff. AN.v.342ff.

Beluva was a small village, and when…

…the unrighteous life SN.v.15f. and the cultivation of the satipaṭṭhānas. SN.v.171f.

A potter in Rājagaha in whose dwelling the Buddha met and conversed with Pukkusāti. MN.iii.237

Bhaggava seems to have been a generic name for all potters, perhaps a special form of address used towar …

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

…Thag.441–446

Brahmadatta⁴

Pupil of the wanderer Suppiya. A conversation between these two led to the preaching of the Brahmajāla…

…visited the Buddha.

He satisfied any remaining doubts he had as to the marks on the Buddha’s body and then proceeded to ask him questions on…

…told to meditate on the four satipaṭṭhānas. This contemplation led to arahantship.

Bāhiya³

A monk, fellow dweller of Anuruddha at…

…Patiṭṭhāna, Māhissati, Ujjeni, Gonaddha, Vedisa, Vanasavhya (or Tumbava, v.l. Vanasāvatthi), Kosambī, Sāketa and Sāvatthī; then,…

…SN.i.53 records a conversation between Candana and the Buddha and a visit paid by Candana to Mahā Moggallāna….

…contains a record of conversations between Citta and members of the Order, among whom, besides those already mentioned, were Kāmabhū and…

…mentions another conversation between the Buddha and Cunda. Cunda tells the Buddha that he approves of the methods of purification laid down…

…Kapilavatthu and questioned him on his teachings. The Buddha explained them to him, but he was not satisfied, and went away “shaking his head,…

…Devahita came later to the Buddha, and after some conversation he was converted. SN.i.174f.

…Ānanda. The king followed the Elder to the monastery, and their conversation is recorded in the Bāhitika Sutta. MN.ii.112f.

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

In the time of Kassapa Buddha he was a potter of Vehaliṅga, looking after his blind parents. He was a very pious and devoted follower of the Buddha, ministering to him better than anyone else, and the …

…and had a conversation with him, recorded in the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. At the conclusion of the talk he declared himself converted and…

A Sākiyan. A conversation between him and Mahānāma the Sākiyan is recorded in the Godha Sutta. SN.v.371

…see the Buddha at Rājagaha.

Between Gonaddha and their starting place lay Patitthāna, Māhissati and Ujjeni, and the next stopping place…

…and others, their conversation led to the preaching of the Mahāgosiṅga Sutta….

…books record several conversations between the Buddha and Hatthaka. He once saw the Buddha at Gomagga in Siṃsapāvana, near Alavi, and asked him…

…the Elder regarding the diversity of sensations.

IccānaṅgalaIcchānaṅkala

A brahmin village in the Kosala country. It was while staying in the woodland thicket there that the Buddha preached the Ambaṭṭha Sutta. DN.i.87 From this sutta, the village w …

…answered the question to the satisfaction of Citta. Citta likewise asked questions regarding various views, such as the infinity of the world, etc….

…time; among recorded conversations at Isipatana are several between Sāriputta and Mahākoṭṭhita, SN.ii.112f. SN.iii.167f. SN.iv.162f.…

…their views. Two such conversations are recorded—one with Subha Todeyyaputta, MN.ii.209 the other with Pilotika. MN.i.175ff. His discussion…

…been assured of the realisation of deathlessness. AN.iii.451

One discussion he had with the Buddha regarding the qualities of a pious lay…

…to by Ānanda in a conversation with Channa. SN.iii.134

The Kaccānagotta is mentioned among the higher castes, together with Moggallāna and…

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

…DN.ii.55 SN.ii.92 the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, DN.ii.290 MN.i.55 and the Ānañjasappāya Sutta. MN.ii.26 The Saṃyutta Nikāya…

…their disciples in the four satipaṭṭhānas. Pessa stated that it was far more difficult to train men than animals. The Buddha agreed and…

…preach a sermon, but was not satisfied with it and kept on thinking— “This recluse is much too scrupulous”. Later, he was filled with remorse…

…and their colleagues. Vin.iv.335

Katamorakatissaka was one of the monks about whom dissatisfaction was expressed to the Buddha, by the…

…near Sāketa. The conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Moggallāna is recorded in the Padesa Sutta. SN.v.174f. A…

…record is made of a conversation between Kimbila and the Buddha, when Kimbila asks how the Dhamma could be made to endure long after the…

…and enters into conversation with him. Kokanuda asks Ānanda a series of questions, such as whether the world is eternal, whether the…

…route is given from Mahissati to Rājagaha, passing through Kosambī, the halting-places mentioned being Ujjeni, Gonaddha, Vedisa, Vanasavhya,…

…the gift of varied and versatile discourse. AN.i.24 Once when Kumāra Kassapa was meditating in Andhavana a deva appeared before him, and asked…

…Mahānidāna Sutta, the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the Māgaṇḍiya Sutta, the Anañjasappāya Sutta, the Sammosa Sutta and the Ariyavasā…

…way of living.

The conversation leads to a discussion of the bojjhangas, the satipaṭṭhāna, and virtuous ways of behaviour. At the end of…

…where he interrupted a conversation which the Buddha was holding with some aged brahmins; they rebuked him for interrupting his elders, but…

…records a conversation between Udāyī and Ānanda. Udāyī asks Ānanda to explain in detail a question which is recorded in the…

…hearsay. AN.i.26 A conversation between her and Mahā Kaccāna is related, where she asks him for a detailed exposition of one of the stanzas in…

…him there and of his conversations with them. Among such visitors are mentioned several Licchavi chiefs, Mahāli Otthatthaddha, DN.i.150ff.…

MahesāMāhissati

A city in the Buddha’s day, mentioned as lying on the route from Bāvari’s hermitage to Sāvatthī. Snp.1011

According to the…

…nature of arising, two on satisfaction, SN.iii.172–177 two on arising, SN.iii.173 and three on ignorance and knowledge. SN.iii.17 Another…

…information as to the teachings of Pūraṇa Kassapa. SN.iii.68 This conversation resulted from Mahāli having heard the Sakkapañha Sutta.

…tells the monks of a conversation he held with the Buddha by means of these divine powers. For another discussion between Sāriputta and…

…books record several conversations between him and the Buddha, and Ānanda, Godha, and Lomasavaṅgīsa. Once when the Buddha arrived at…

A primeval king. He is considered as an example of one whose desires could never be satisfied. AN.ii.17 Thig.488

…himself.; by guarding oneself, one guards another; this is done by the cultivation of the four satipaṭṭhānas. SN.v.168f.

The name…

…the Moriyas of Pipphalivana. They came rather late and had to be satisfied with a share of the ashes. DN.ii.166

…SN.iv.230f. Another conversation he had with the Buddha is recorded in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. AN.iii.356 There he asks the Buddha if the claims…

Musila

A monk. A conversation is recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.ii.115f. between him and Savittha, which is said to have taken place in…

…Buddha, aware of this conversation, entered the hut in the evening and had a discussion with Māgaṇḍiya, who ended by joining the Order, later…

…by Ānanda, to whom he confessed that even in his illness he practiced the four satipaṭṭhāna. He was quite free from the five lower fetters….

…contains records of conversations between Nakulapitā and the Buddha. Both husband and wife are mentioned in lists of eminent disciples….

…of Bāvarī. His conversation with the Buddha is recorded in the Nanda māṇavaapucchā. Snp.1007…

…happiness. During the conversation, a man comes to tell Nandaka that his bath is ready. Nandaka sends him away, saying that the inner washing…

…them, and he went away satisfied. SN.i.62

Nandana²Nandanavana

The chief of the parks in Tāvatiṃsā, where the inhabitants of…

…him and entered into conversation. The Buddha, by his divine ear, hearing their talk, approached them and continued the discussion with Nigrodha;…

…and also several conversations with Asibandhakaputta. SN.ii.311–323

The Buddha visited Nāḷandā during his last tour through Māgadha,…

Opamañña¹

One of the names of Pokkharasāti. MN.ii.200

Opamañña²

A Gandhabba chieftain, who was among those present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. DN.ii.258 He is me …

…ways, though it is stated that earlier in the day they had taken the uposatha-vows. The conversation that took place between Oṭṭhaddha and…

…engaging in friendly, conversational discussions on matters of ethics and philosophy, nature lore and mysticism. They differed very much in…

…to the Buddha the conversation he had had with the Paribbājaka Uggāhamāna Samanamandikāputta, and the Buddha preached to him the…

…also present, and his conversation on that occasion is recorded in the Kandaraka Sutta. When Pessa had left, the Buddha is reported to have said…

…the Buddha. It is this conversation which, on its being repeated by Jāṇussoṇi to the Buddha, led to the preaching of the Cullahatthipadopama…

…Nikāya records a conversation between him and Kāraṇapālī. The latter meets Piṅgiyānī and, on learning that he was returning from a…

PokkharasātiPokkharasādi

A brahmin of great wealth and learning who lived in Ukkaṭṭha, on a royal demesne given by Pasenadi. Ambaṭṭha was the pupil of Pokkharasāti, who sent him to the Buddha at Icch …

…MN.i.359ff.

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

A young monk whom the Buddha met at the house of Bhaggava, the potter, in Rājagaha. Pukkusāti was already occupying the guest room of the house, and the Buddha asked to be allowed to share it, to whic …

…AN.v.138ff.

A conversation he had with the Buddha, in the company of Isidatta, at Sādhuka, is recorded in the Saṃyutta Nikāya…

…to himself and others when they were yet novices; Puṇṇa had preached to them on causation, and they were able to understand the Doctrine…

…Buddha. Snp.1006 His conversation with the Buddha is given in the Puṇṇakamāṇavapucchā. Snp.1043–1048

Puṇṇaka²

A Yakkha…

Puṇṇikā²

A slave girl of Pokkharasāti. MN.ii.201

…share in his relics. Doṇa satisfied their claim, and a Thūpa was erected in Pāvā over their share of the relics. DN.ii.167

The inhabitants of…

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

…visited him. Their conversation is recorded in the Raṭṭhapāla Sutta. MN.ii.54ff.

The Vinaya Vin.iii.148 contains a stanza quoted by the…

…doctrine. During the conversation, Sānavāsī arrived and questioned Sabbakāmī regarding the Ten Points, but the latter refused to express an…

Son and successor of King Disampati. On the death of his father Reṇu, with the advice and co operation of his chief steward Jotipāla, who was also his great friend, divided his kingdom into seven part …

…passing through Māhissati, Ujjeni, Gonaddha, Vedisa. Vanasavhaya, Kosambī, Sāketa, Sāvatthī, Setavyā, Kapilavatthu, Kusinārā, on to…

…answer. Moggallāna departs satisfied, and Sakka tells his handmaidens that Moggallāna is a “fellow of his” in the higher life, meaning,…

…Suttas record two conversations between him and the Buddha in the Paribbājakārāma at Moranivāpa in Rājagaha.

He is also said to have been…

…MN.iii.192f. A conversation between Potaliputta and Samiddhi, three years after the latter had joined the Order, led to the preaching of the…

…So seated, he expresses his satisfaction that Sakka and all the Tāvatiṃsā Devas should honour and follow the Buddha. His voice has all the…

…Buddha, and it was his conversation with the Paribbājaka Nigrodha that led to the preaching of the Udumbarika Sīhanāda Sutta.

In the Aṅguttara…

…Rājagaha. DN.ii.116 A conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Upasena, just before the latter’s death, is recorded in the…

…SN.ii.115 contains two conversations of Savittha, both of which took place at the Ghositārāma in Kosambī. The first is with Musila and deals with…

…power, that Sela should be satisfied on these two points as well. Sela then praised the Buddha in a series of verses and asked questions of him….

…met him and had a conversation with him, which he reported to the Buddha. DN.ii.356f. The deva of the vimāna was also called Serīsaka,…

…at Jetavana and held a conversation with him regarding the giving of food. He tells the Buddha that he was formerly a king, a great giver of gifts…

…AN.ii.37 records a conversation between the Buddha and the brahmin Doṇa, whom the Buddha met on the road from Ukkaṭṭha to Setavyā. The…

…asking him to visit him. Ānanda, went and preached to him on the four satipaṭṭhānas. Sirivaḍḍha became an anāgāmī. SN.v.176f.

…their origin and their cessation; SN.iii.48f. and, on another occasion, as to why some beings achieve complete cessation in this life and…

…and colleagues. Their conversation is recorded in the Soṇadaṇḍa Sutta. At the end of the discourse, Soṇadaṇḍa expressed his…

…Buddha overheard the conversation and asked Subhadda to come in. Subhadda asked the Buddha if there were any truth in the teachings of other…

…Udāyi visited the Buddha during a stay, and had a conversation with him. SN.v.89 SN.v.168

…gives an account of his dissatisfaction.

His grievance was that the Buddha showed no mystic superhuman wonders, that he had not shown him the…

…them to retract their accusations against the Buddha and his monks and to confess their own wickedness. They were then punished for murder….

…Sakka reported this conversation to the Buddha, who said that no power in the world would change Suppabuddha. Soon after, Suppabuddha visited the…

SāṭimattiyaSātimattiya

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of one who formerly had faith but now has no more, and of wandering for alms, a little here and there. Thag.246–248

…Having discovered in conversation with the Buddha that he was falsely accused of preaching wrong doctrines, Sīha declared himself the Buddha’s…

…was also present, and the sutta led to his attainment of arahantship. MN.i.497 MN.i.501

A conversation which the Buddha had there with…

TāvatiṃsāTidasāTidiva

The second of the six deva-worlds, the first being the Cātummahārājika world. Tāvatiṃsā stands at the top of Mount Sineru. Sakka is king of Tāvatiṃsā.

Tāvatiṃsā was also known …

…finding this doctrine unsatisfactory, abandoned it. MN.i.165ff. MN.i.240ff.

The Buddha evidently had a high regard for Uddaka-Rāmaputta,…

…visited him. Their conversation is recorded in the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. At the end of Udena’s sermon, the brahmin offered to share with him the…

…also records a conversation between Udāyī and Ānanda, when Udāyī asks if it is possible to describe the consciousness, too, as being…

…the carpenter, Pañcakaṅga, on his way to see the Buddha, visited him and had a conversation with him, which conversation Pañcakaṅga later…

The capital of Avanti. In the Buddha’s time, Caṇḍapajjota Vin.i.276 was king of Ujjenī and there was friendly intercourse between that city and Māgadha, whose king was Seniya Bimbisāra. After Bimbisār …

A town in Kosala, near the Himālaya. It has been given, free from all taxes (as brahmadeyya), to Pokkharasāti by the king of Kosala, in recognition of the former’s skill. It was thickly populated an …

…talk and reports the conversation to Ajātasattu. The king shows his anger at the man’s presumption in having remonstrated with the Buddha….

The family to which Pokkharasāti belonged. He was, therefore, called Opamañña. MN.ii.200

…of the Māgadha kingdom. He was present at the conversation, recorded in the Gopaka-Moggallāna Sutta, between…

…engages Upavāna in conversation and asks him to explain the five qualities which make a monk esteemed and loved by his colleagues. At the end of…

…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 headman Rāsiya,…

…was to cultivate the four satipaṭṭhānas and that Sahampati visited the Blessed One and confirmed his view.SN.v.167 SN.v.185 A different…

…explains how the task does come to an end, and Uṇṇābha expresses great satisfaction with the answer. Perhaps this refers to another…

…arahant Thera. Several conversations he had with the Buddha are mentioned in the books. For details see the Tevijja Vacchagotta-, Aggi…

…whom he repeated the conversation. The Buddha praised him, and said it was untrue that he discouraged all austerity and asceticism; such penances…

…and tells Ānanda of a conversation he once had with the Buddha regarding jhāna. Ānanda, remarks that all jhānas are not equally…

…of Vaḍḍha. Her conversation with Vaḍḍha and his declaration to her after becoming an arahant are included in the Therīgāthā….

…“The existence of the senses,” answered Udāyī; and she, expressing her satisfaction, declared herself a follower of Udāyī. SN.iv.121f.

King of Avanti in the time of Reṇu. His capital was Māhissatī. DN.ii.236

…in the course of their conversation, he spoke to Ānanda of the beauties of Vesāli: of the Udena cetiya, the Gotamaka cetiya, the Sattambaka…

…she answered. Their conversation is recorded in the Culla Vedalla Sutta. MN.i.299f. Visākha then visited the Buddha and reported their…

Yasa ¹

He was the son of a very wealthy treasurer of Benares, and was brought up in great luxury, living in three mansions, according to the seasons and surrounded with all kinds of pleasu …

…to indulge in mere conversation.

His Theragāthā verses speak in praise of a thin monk who is dedicated and content, while criticizing those…