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• Ápá
• Apacara
• Apacáyika Sutta.-See Pacáyika Sutta.
• Apaccakkhakamma Suttá.-Five discourses in which the Buddha explains to Vacchagotta how diverse opinions arise through want of clearness about the facts of body, feeling, perception, activities and consciousness. S.iii.262.
• Apaccupalakkhaná Sutta.-Same as the above, only substituting "through not discriminating" for "through want of clearness." S.iii.261.
• Apaccupekkhaná Sutta.-Same as the above, but substituting "through not looking into" for "through not discriminating." S.iii.262.
• Apadána
• Apadániya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he had eulogized the life history (apadánam kittayissam) of the Buddha. Ap.i.241.
• Apadika.-A river. Vasabha Thera, in a previous birth as the jatila Nárada, erected on its banks a cetiya in memory of the Buddha. ThagA.i.258; Ap.ii.437.
• Apagata Sutta.-Records a conversation between the Buddha and Ráhula in Jetavana. The Buddha explains how the mind is freed from notions of "I" and "mine." S.ii.253; see Ráhula Sutta (3).
• Apalála
• Apaláladamana.-See Apalála.
• Apalokina Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the un-decaying and the path that leads thereto. S.iv.370. On the name see KS.iv.262, n.2.
• Apalokita.-See Apalokina.
• Ápana
• Ápana Sutra.-See Saddha Sutta.
• Ápána.-One of the Vanni chiefs of Ceylon, brought into subjection by Bhuvanekabáhu I. (Cv.xc.33)
• Apannaka Játaka (No. 1)
• Apannaka Sutta/Vagga
• Apannakatá Sutta.-On the three qualities which make a monk proficient in following the sure course (apannakapatipadá): guarding the senses, moderation in eating and wakefulness. A.i.113f.
• Apanthaka.-Given as a personal name in a passage where it is stated that names are mere designators, they signify nothing. Thus "Panthakas " (Guides) too lose their way, so do "Apanthakas." J.i.403.
• Apára Sutta
• Aparáditthi Sutta
• Aparagoyána
• Aparagoyma.-See Gotama (3).
• Aparájita
• Aparanna
• Aparantá.-Mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
• Aparantaka (Aparanta)
• Aparaseliyá
• Apariháni Sutta.-There are seven things that decline not, viz., the seven bojjhangas. S.v.85; see also ibid., 94.
• Aparihániya Sutta
• Aparika.-See Apadika.
• Apásádika Sutta.-Two discourses on the evils of being unamiable. A.iii.255-6.
• Apassena.-A cakkavatti who lived six kappas ago; a previous birth of Árakkhadáyaka Thera. Ap.i.215.
• Ápatti (Sutta/Vagga)
• Ápáyika Sutta.-On three persons who are doomed to purgatory (A.i.265).
• Ápáyika Vagga.-The twelfth chapter of the Tika Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.265-73). It contains ten suttas on various topics.
• Apáyimha Vagga.-The ninth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játaka. J.i.360-79.
• Apheggusára.-A treatise, of about the fourteenth century, on Abhidhamma topics, written by a scholar of Hamsavatí in Burma. Bode: op. cit., 36 and n.2; Sás.48.
• Apheggusáradípaní-A book composed at Hamsavatí, probably by Mahásuvannadípa, teacher of Queen Sívalí. In Nevill's MS. Catalogue in the British Museum it is described as an anutíká dealing with matter in the Abhidhammatthavibhávaní. Bode: op. cit. 36, n.2.
• Apilápiya.-A cakkavatti of eighty-six kappas ago; a former birth of Tikandípupphiya Thera. Ap.i.202.
• Appacintí.-A fish who lived in the Ganges with his brothers Bahucintí and Mitacintí. He and Bahucintí were caught in a fisherman's net and were rescued by Mitacintí. The story is told in the Mitacintí Ját. (i.427-8).
• Appaká (or Virata) Vagga.-The eighth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.v.468-70.
• Appaka Sutta
• Appamáda Sutta / Vagga
• Appamádováda.-The name given to the stanzas in the Dhammapada (Nos. 21-23) on heedfulness. J.v.66.
• Appamánábhá
• Appamánasubhá
• Appamateyya Sutta.-See Matteyya.
• Appamatta Sutta.-See Asamatta.
• Appamattaka Vagga.-The nineteenth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. In the spiritual world, by analogy with Nature, only a few are selected out of many who will be lost. A.i.35-8.
• Appameyya Sutta.-Of three classes of persons, the arahant is the immeasurable (appameyya). A.i.266.
• Appam-supati Sutta.-The five kinds of persons who sleep but little. A.iii.156.
• Appassuta Sutta 1.-A woman who has small knowledge is born in purgatory. S.iv.242.
• Appassuta Sutta 2.-Four classes of persons, some of small learning and some of wide learning. A.ii.6f.
• Appativáni Sutta.-By him who knows not birth and becoming, grasping, craving, feeling, contact, etc., there must be no turning back in the search for knowledge. S.ii.132.
• Appativedhá Sutta.-Preached to Vacchagotta. Divers opinions arise in the world through want of perception of the nature of the body, etc. S.iii.261.
• Appatividitá-Sutta.-Spoken by a deva; a Buddha has arisen, now is the time for those who have not perceived the truth to do so. S.i.4.
• Appihá
• Appiyá.-See Suppiyá.
• Aputtaka
• Aputtaka Sutta
• Aputtasetthi Vatthu.-The story of Aputtaka given above. DhA.iv.76-80.
• Árabbhavatthu Sutta.-On the eight occasions in which exertion should be applied. A.iv.334f.
• Árabhati Sutta.-There are five kinds of people in the world. Those who commit faults and repent, etc. A.iii.165-7.
• Araddhaviriya Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No.80) to a Sutta in the Itivuttaka (p.115f.), which is called in the Anguttara as Cara Sutta (q.v.).
• Arahá Sutta
• Araham Sutta
• Arahanta Sutta/Vagga
• Arahanta.-A Talaing monk, the preceptor and advisor of Anuruddha. King of Burma. He made far-reaching reforms in the Burmese Sangha of his day (Bode, op. cit., 12-13).
• Arahatta Sutta/Vagga
• Araja.-One of the palaces occupied by Dhammadassí before he became the Buddha. Bu.xvi.14.
• Araka
• Araka Játaka (No. 169)
• Araka Sutta.-The teachings of Araka. A.iv.136ff.
• Árakkha Sutta.-Earnest care should be exerted to guard one's thoughts from running riot among passionate things, from being malicious, from being deluded and from following the path laid down by various recluses (false teachers?). A.ii.120.
• Árakkhadáyaka Thera
• Áráma Sutta.-See Sáriputta-Kotthita Sutta.
• Áramá Vagga.-The sixth division of the Pacittiya of the Bhikkhuní Vibhanga (Vin.iv.306-17).
• Árámadanda.-A brahmin.
• Árámadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past life he planted a garden with shady trees for the Buddha Siddhattha, and gave the Buddha the fruits and flowers that grew there. Thirty-seven kappas ago he was born seven times as king, by name Mudusítala. Ap.i.251.
• Árámadúsaka Játaka (No. 46, 268)
• Árámassa.-A village in Ceylon, given by King Udaya I. for the maintenance of a Loharúpa (bronze statue) of the Buddha. Cv.xlix.17.
• Árámikagáma
• Arammá.-A tribe mentioned in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
• Árammana Sutta
• Araná Sutta.-On the Undefiled. Preached in answer to a deva's questions as to who are undefiled and fit to receive homage from everyone. Monks, says the Buddha, are so worthy (S.i.44-5).
• Aranadípiya Thera
• Aranañjaha.-See Arunañjaha.
• Aranavibhanga Sutta
• Aranemi
• Arani Sutta
• Árañjara.-See Arañjaragiri.
• Arañjaragiri
• Arañña
• Arañña Játaka (No. 348)
• Arañña Sutta/Vagga
• Áraññaka Maháabhaya
• Áraññaka Sutta. The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 85) to the Anágata Sutta (q.v.).
• Araññakutiká
• Araññasatta.-A king of twenty kappas ago; a previous birth of Nimittasaññaka Thera (v.l. Araññamanna; Araññasanta). Ap.i.261.
• Araññavásí Nikáya
• Arati
• Arati Sutta
• Aravacchá
• Aravála
• Áravála.-See Aravála.
• Araváladaha.-The lake in which Aravála lived.
• Arikárí.-A monastery in Ceylon. It is not recorded by whom it was first built. Udaya I. found it in a dilapidated condition and had it repaired. He also built there a house for the distribution of food and added a pásáda (Cv.xlix.32).
• Arimaddana
• Arimaddavijayagáma
• Arimanda.-A city in which the Bodhisatta was born as the Khattiya Vijatáví in the time of the Buddha Phussa. BuA.194.
• Arindama
• Arittha (Sutta)
• Arittha Vihára.-The monastery built by Lañjakatissa in Aritthapabbata. Mhv.xxxiii.27; Mhv.trans.230, n.6.
• Aritthajanaka
• Aritthaká
• Aritthapabbata
• Aritthapura
• Arittha-thapita-ghara.-See Sirivaddhaghara (?).
• Ariya (Sutta)
• Ariyá Sutta.-The four iddhi-pádas, if cultivated, conduce to the utter destruction of Ill. They are ariyaniyyániká. S.v.255.
• Ariyabálisika Vatthu.-The story of the fisherman Ariya given above, Ariya 2.
• Áriyacakkavatti
• Ariyagálatissa
• Ariyagála-tittha. A ford, probably on the Maháváluka-nadí. Ras.ii.38.
• Ariyákara Vihára. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
• Ariyákari.-A monastery in Rohana in South Ceylon. Dappula gave it to the village of Málavatthu and built therein an image house. He also had a valuable unnaloma and a hemapatta made for the image there. Cv.xlv.60-l.
• Ariyaka-Vihára. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.174.
• Áriyakkhattayodhá
• Ariyakoti.-A monastery (probably in Ceylon), the residence of Mahá Datta Thera. MA.i.131.
• Ariyálankára
• Ariyamagga Sutta/Vagga
• Ariyamuni
• Ariyapariyesaná Sutta
• Ariyasávaka Sutta
• Ariyavamsa
• Ariyavamsálankára.-A book written by Ñánábhisásanadhaja Mahádhammarájaguru Thera of Burma, author of the Petakálankára and other books. Sás.134.
• Ariyavasá Sutta.-The ten dwellings of Ariyans, past, present and future. A.v.29.
• Árohanta
• Aruka Sutta.-On the man whose mind is like an open sore, as opposed to one who is lightning-minded or diamond-minded. A.i.123f.
• Aruna
• Arunabala.-See below Arunapála.
• Arunaka.-Thirty-six kappas ago there were seven kings of the name of Arunaka, all previous births of the Thera Vatthadáyaka (Ap.i.116).
• Arunañjaha.-Seventy kappas ago there were sixteen kings of the name of Arunañjaha. They were all past births of Asokapújaka Thera (Ap.i.199).
• Arunapála.-A king of thirty-five kappas ago, a former birth of Kanikárapupphiya Thera (who is evidently identical with Ujjaya, Ap.i.203). In the Theragáthá Commentary (i.119) he is called Arunabala.
• Arunapura.-A city in the time of the Buddha Sikhí. Ambapálí was born there in a brahmin family (Ap.ii.613; ThigA.i.213). It is probably identical with Arunavatí.
• Arunavá.-See Aruna (1).
• Arunavatí (Sutta)
• Arunavatí Paritta. Same as Arunavatí Sutta.
• Arundhavatí.-See Amaravatí (2).
• Aruppala.-One of the villages given by Kittisirirájasíha for the maintenance of the Gangáráma Vihára. Cv.c.212.
• Ásá-Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.86-8). It contains twelve suttas on various topics.
• Ásá.-Daughter of Sakka.
• Asaddha Sutta. Like joins with (literally "flows together with") like, unbelievers with unbelievers, the lazy with the lazy, etc. S.ii.159.
• Asaddhamúlakápañca Sutta.-The same in its main features as the Asaddha Sutta. S.ii.160-1.
• Asadisa
• Asadisa Játaka (No. 181)
• Asadisa Vagga.-The fourth section of the Duka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.ii.86-113.
• Asadisadána
• Asadisadána Vatthu.-The story of the Asadisadána and its sequel, the story of Pasenadi's two ministers Kála and Junha. See Kála.
• Asallakkhaná Sutta.-Preached to the Paribbájaka Vacchagotta. Through want of discernment of the nature of the body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. S.iii.261.
• Asama
• Asamá
• Asamáhita Sutta.-Like joins with like, e.g. the un-concentrated with the un-concentrated, because of some fundamental quality (dhátu) common to both. S.ii.166.
• Asamapekkhaná Sutta.-By not seeing the nature of body, etc., diverse opinions arise in the world. Preached at Sávatthi to the Paribbájaka Vacchagotta. S.iii.261.
• Asamatta Sutta
• Asampadána Játaka (No. 131)
• Asampadána Vagga.-The fourteenth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.465-86.
• Asanabodhiya Thera
• Ásanatthavika Thera
• Asandhimittá
• Asani Sutta
• Ásanka Játaka (No. 380)
• Ásanká.-The adopted daughter of the Bodhisatta in the Ásanka Játaka. She was so called because she came to him when he crossed the water owing to his doubt (ásanká) as to what was in the lotus. J.iii.250.
• Asankhata Samyutta.-Also called Nibbána Samyutta. The forty-third section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.iv.359-73.
• Asankhata Suttas.-A group of suttas describing the way to the uncompounded (asankhata). S.iv.362ff.
• Asankiya Játaka (No. 76)
• Asaññasattá
• Asaññataparikkhára-bhikkhu Vatthu
• Ásanupattháyaka Thera
• Asappurisa Sutta
• Asátamanta Játaka (No. 61)
• Asátarúpa Játaka (No. 100)
• Asattháráma.-The place where the Buddha Piyadassí died. Bu.xiv.27.
• Ásava Sutta
• Ásavakkhaya Sutta
• Ásavánam-khaya Sutta.-By cultivating the five indriyas (saddhá, etc.) a monk in this very life realises the liberation by insight which is without the ásavas. S.v.203.
• Ásávatí
• Asayha
• Asekhiya Sutta.-Five things which make a monk worthy of offerings, etc. A.iii.134.
• Asela
• Áseva Sutta.-If, just for the duration of a finger snap, a monk indulges a thought of good-will, such a one is verily a monk (A.i.10).
• Ásevitabba Sutta.-On the characteristics of the person who should be followed. A.i.124f.
• Asibandhakaputta
• Asiggáha Silákála.-See Silákála.
• Asiggáhaka-parivena.-A building in the Thúpáráma. Ras.ii.123.
• Asilakkhana Játaka (No. 126)
• Ásimsa Vagga.-The sixth section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.261-84.
• Asipattavana.-One of the tortures of purgatory. In the distance the grove appears as a mango grove, and when the inhabitants of purgatory enter, wishing to eat the mangoes, leaves which are sharp like swords fall on them, cutting off their limbs. Sn.v.673; SnA.ii.481.
• Asisúkarika Sutta
• Asita
• Asita Devala
• Asitábhu Játaka (No. 234)
• Asitábhú.-Wife of Prince Brahmadatta. Her story is given in the Asitábhú Játaka.
• Asitañjala.-See Amitañjala.
• Asitañjana
• Asíti Nipáta.-The twenty-first section of the Játakatthakathá (J.v.333-511).
• Ásívisa Sutta/Vagga
• Ásívisopama Sutta
• Asoka
• Asoká
• Asokamálá
• Asokamálaka
• Asokapújaka Thera
• Asokáráma
• Assa Sutta
• Assagutta Thera
• Assaji (Sutta)
• Assaji-Punabbasuká
• Assaji-Punabbasuka-Vatthu.-The story of the visit of the Aggasávakas to the Assaji-Punabbasuká, mentioned above. DhA.ii.108-10.
• Assaka
• Assaka Játaka (No. 207).-The story of King Assaka (2). It was related to a monk who was distracted by the recollection of a former wife. He was Assaka in the previous birth. J.ii.158.
• Assakanna.-One of the mountains round Sineru (SnA.ii.443; Sp.i.119). It is higher than Vinataka, and between these two flows the Sídantara Samudda. J.vi.125.
• Assaláyana
• Assaláyana Sutta.-Records the conversation between the Buddha and Assaláyana when the latter went to visit him. M.ii.147ff.
• Assamandala
• Assamukha.-One of the four rivers that flow out of the Anotatta Lake. Many horses are found on its banks. SnA.ii.438; UdA.301.
• Assapála
• Assapura
• Assapura Suttas.-See Mahá Assapura and Cúla Assapura.
• Assáráma.-The place of death of Sikhí Buddha (BuA.204). The Buddhavamsa (Bu.xxi.28) calls it Dussáráma.
• Assároha.-Probably a nickname for the horse-trainer whose visit to the Buddha is recorded in the Assa Sutta. He is described as a gámani (head man of a village). S.iv.310.
• Assása Sutta.-A conversation between Sáriputta and the Paribbájaka Jambukhádaka as to what constitutes comfort (assása) and how it might be won. S.iv.254.
• Assatara
• Assu Sutta.-Preached at Sávatthi. The tears shed by a person faring in Samsára, as a result of various sorrows, are greater in quantity than the waters of the four oceans. One should therefore feel repulsion for all things of this world. S.ii.179-80.
• Assutavá Sutta.-From the adjusted friction of two sticks fire is born; if there is no friction there is no fire. Similarly, from contact feeling is born: if contact ceases feeling ceases. The well-taught disciple knows this and attains freedom. S.iv.95.
• Assutavata Sutta
• Asubha Sutta
• Asubhakammika Tissa Thera.-Referred to in the Majjhima Commentary (MA.i.228; J.iii.534; see also MT.401) as an example of a monk in whom lustful desires ceased because he dwelt on the Impurities and associated only with worthy friends. He was an arahant.
• Asura
• Asura Vagga/Sutta
• Asurinda (Asurindaka) Sutta
• Asurindaka Bháradvája