Pali Proper Names - A -

• Átánátá.-A city in Uttarakuru, mentioned with Kusinátá, Parakusinátá and Nátápuriyá (D.iii.200).
• Átánátiya Sutta
• Átappa Sutta
• Atappá-devá
• Atarandá-mahábhodikkhandha.-A village in Rohana where the forces of Dhamiládhikári destroyed the rebels. Cv.lxxv.97.
• Atata
• Athabbana (Áthabbana)
• Athalayunnáda.-A district in S. India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
• Athalayúru-nadálvára.-A Damila chieftain. Cv.lxxvi.140, 260; lxxvii.27.
• Aticári Sutta.-That an adulteress is born in purgatory. S.iv.242.
• Atideva.-The Bodhisatta born as a Brahmin in the time of Revata Buddha. Having heard the Buddha preach he gave him his upper garment (J.i.35; Bu.vi.10; Mbv.10). He belonged to Rammavatí. BuA.134.
• Atimbara.-Minister of Dútthagámani. SdS.77.
• Atimuttaka
• Atimuttaka-sámanera Vatthu.-See Atimuttaka (2).
• Atinivása Sutta.-The five evil results of long dwelling (atinivása). A.iii.258.
• Atipandita.-The Bodhisatta was once born as the son of a merchant family in Benares and was named Pandita. He entered into partnership with another man, named Atipandita, who tried to deceive him but in vain. J.i.405f.
• Atítánágatapneuppanna Suttas.-Three in number. Seeing that the sankháras are (1) impermanent, (2) ill, and (3) without the self, the Ariyan disciple cares not for what is past, is not in love with the present and seeks dispassion for the future. S.iii.19-20.
• Atítena Sutta.-Seeing that the eye, ear, etc., of the past are impermanent, the Ariyan disciple should cease desiring them. S.iv.151.
• Atitti Sutta.-There is no satiety in sleep, in drinking liquor and in sexual intercourse. A.i.261.
• Atta Sutta 1.-Self-possession is the forerunner of the Eightfold Path. S.v.36.
• Atta Sutta 2.-The self-possessed monk develops the Eightfold Path. S.v.37.
• Attadanda Sutta
• Attadattha Thera
• Attadípa Sutta.-Monks should be refuges unto themselves, the Dhamma should be their refuge. They should seek for the very source of things in the impermanence of the five Khandhas. S.iv.42f.
• Attadípa Vagga.-Of the Samyutta Nikáya (S.iii.42ff), contains ten suttas on the nature of the body and the self.
• Attahita Sutta.-Three suttas on the four kinds of people in the world: bent on their own profit; on another's profit; on the profit of both; on the profit of neither. A.ii.97ff.
• Attakára Sutta.-On individuality and non-individuality; preached in answer to a brahmin's questions. A.iii.337f.
• Attakarana Sutta.-See Atthakarana Sutta.
• Attálhidhátusena Vihára.-A monastery built by King Dhátusena. Cv.xxxviii.49.
• Attantápa Sutta.-On the self-tormentor who practices various austerities, and the tormentor of others - butcher, fisherman, etc. and those who, like some kings, torment both themselves and others. A.ii.203ff.
• Attánuváda Sutta.-On the four kinds of fears: fear of self-reproach, of others' reproach, of punishment, and of woeful state. A.ii.121f.
• Atta-piya Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 46) for Piya Sutta (2).
• Atthadassí
• Atthaka
• Atthakáma Vagga.-The fifth section of Eka Nipáta of the Játakatthakathá. J.i.234-61.
• Atthaka-nágara Sutta
• Atthakanagara.-A city, from which came the householder Dasama who, while on a visit to Pátaliputta on business, went to see Ananda at Beluvagáma and questioned him (M.i.349f.; A.v.342-7). The conversation is recorded in the Atthaka-nágara Sutta.
• Atthakarana Sutta
• Atthakathácariyá.-Composers (?) of the Commentaries. They lived prior to Buddhaghosa, because he refers to them. E.g., AA.i.273.
• Atthakathá-Thera.-Mentioned in the Dígha Commentary (iii.728) as being capable of solving the doubts that arose in the mind of Mahá Sívali Thera of the village hermitage.
• Atthaka-Vagga/Sutta
• Atthakula Sutta.-The reasons why certain families, having attained great possessions, fail to last long. A.ii.249f.
• Atthama.-Pacceka Buddha, one of the names given in a list of such. M.iii.70; ApA.i.106.
• Atthana Játaka
• Atthána Vagga.-A group of the "impossibilities"; examples of such are the simultaneous existence of two Buddhas, or the following of a good result from an evil deed. A.i.26-30.
• Atthánaparikappa Sutta
• Atthangika (Magga) Sutta
• Atthapuggala Sutta.-Two suttas on the eight persons who are worthy of homage and of gifts. A.iv.292, 293.
• Atthasadda Játaka
• Atthasahassa.-A district of Rohana in Ceylon (Cv.lxi.24; lxxv.154) to the east of the modern Valaveganga. See Geiger, Cv. trans., i.227, n.4.
• Atthasáliní
• Atthasandassaka Thera
• Atthasata Sutta (°Pariyaya).-Method of describing the 108 feelings - thirty-six each of the past, present and future. S.iv.231.
• Atthassadvára Játaka (No. 84)
• Atthavasa Vagga.-The seventeenth chapter of the Duka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya (A.i.98-100). It deals with the aims behind the Buddha's injunctions to monks with regard to the practice of samatha and vipassaná, to be employed as remedies against lust, etc.
• Atthavyákhyána
• Atthika Sutta.-A group of suttas dealing with the benefits occurring from meditating on skeletons. S.v.129ff.
• Atthinukhopariyáya Sutta
• Atthipesí Sutta.-Preached about a pets, a mere skeleton, seen near Gijjhakúta by Moggallána and Lakkhana. He had been a cattle-butcher in Rájagaha. S.ii.254.
• Atthipuñja Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 21) for Puggala Sutta (1).
• Atthirága Sutta.-All existence is the result of attachment to the four kinds of food: kabalinkára (solid food), phassa (contact), manosañcetaná (will), and viññána (consciousness). This is explained with various similes. S.ii.101-4.
• Atthisena
• Atthisena Játaka (No. 403)
• Atthissara.-The name under which Devadatta, having suffered for five parts of a kappa in purgatory, will become Pacceka Buddha. DhA.i.125; Mil.111.
• Attho Sutta.-See Virocana-asurinda Sutta (?).
• Atula
• Atulamba.-The mango tree produced by the juggler Bhandu-kanna to make Prince Mahápanáda laugh. The mango is known as Vessavana's mango and it is impossible to approach it. J.iv.324; see also ii.397.
• Atulya.-King. A previous birth of Asanatthavika Thera. Twenty-seven kappas ago he was king seven times under this name. Ap.i.255.
• Átumá
• Átuma Thera
• Avakannaka.-Given in the Pácittiya rules' as an example of a low name (hínanáma). Vin.iv.6ff.
• Avandiya.-A Damila chief who fought on the side of Kulasekhara against Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvi.146.
• Avantaphaladáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had given a fruit without a stalk (avanta) to a Pacceka Buddha named Sataramsi. Ap.i.294.
• Avanti
• Ávantiká.-The name given to monks of Avanti who helped Yasa Kákandakaputta to overcome the heresy of the Vajjiputtakas. Mhv.iv.19ff.
• Avantiputta
• Ávarana Sutta.-There are five things that overwhelm the mind and weaken the insight: kámacchanda, vyápáda, thínamiddha, uddhaccakukkucca and vicikicchá. A.iii.63-4.
• Ávarana-nívarana Sutta.-(Also called Nívaranávarana). The five things, as above, which overwhelm the mind and weaken the insight and the seven bojjhangas which counteract them and conduce to the attainment of emancipation through knowledge. S.v.94-6.
• Ávaranatá Sutta
• Aváriya Játaka (No. 376)
• Aváriya Vagga.-The first division of the Chakka Nipáta of the Játakatthakatha (J.iii.228-74).
• Aváriyá.-Daughter of Aváriyapitá. J.iii.230.
• Aváriyapitá.-The ferryman of the Aváriya Játaka.
• Avaroja
• Avaruddhaka
• Ávásika Vagga.-The twenty-fourth chapter of the Pañaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. It consists of ten suttas dealing with the qualities of a resident monk which make him worthy of honour and agreeable, or otherwise. A.iii.261-7.
• Avataphaliya Thera
• Ávattagangá
• Avavádaká
• Avela.-One of the palaces used by the Buddha Revata in his last lay-life. Bu.vi.17.
• Ávenika Sutta
• Áveyya.-A king of fifty-nine kappas ago, a former birth of Samádapaka Thera. (v.l. Ávekkheyya). Ap.i.185.
• Avíci
• Avidúre Nidána
• Avihá
• Avihimsá Sutta.-See Akodha Sutta.
• Avijjá Vagga/Sutta
• Avijjápaccaya Sutta.-Two suttas. Conditioned by ignorance, activities (sankhárá) come to pass, and so on for each factor of the Paticcasamuppáda. S.ii.60-3.
• Avikakká (v.l. for Adhikakká).
• Avitakka Sutta
• Ávopupphiya Thera.-An arahant. He heard Sikhí Buddha preach and, being pleased with the sermon, threw a heap of flowers into the sky, above the Buddha, as an offering to him. Twenty kappas ago he became a king under the name of Sumedha (Ap.i.112).
• Avyádhika Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he built an aggi-sálá for Vipassí Buddha and a hospital and hot baths for the sick. Later, seven kappas ago, he was a king named Aparájita. Ap.i.215.
• Avyákata Samyutta.-The forty-fourth section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.iv.374.
• Avyákata Vagga
• Avyápajjha Sutta.-The Buddha teaches the harmless and the path thereto. S.iv.371.
• Áyácana Sutta/Vagga
• Áyácitabhatta Játaka (No. 19)
• Áyágadáyaka Thera
• Ayakúta Játaka (No. 347)
• Áyasmanta.-A general of King Sáhasamalla.
• Áyatana Sutta
• Ayoghara
• Ayoghara Játaka (No. 510).-The story of Prince Ayoghara as given above. The story was told regarding the Buddha's Renunciation.  In the Játakamálá the name appears as Ayogrha. Játakamálá No. 32.
• Ayogula Sutta
• Ayojjhá
• Ayoniso (or Vitakkita) Sutta
• Áyu Sutta
• Áyupála
• Áyupálá (Áyupálí).-An arahant Therí, preceptor of Sanghamittá. Mhv.v.208; Sp.i.51.
• Áyúra
• Áyussa Sutta.-Two in number, on the five conditions (such as excessive eating), which do not bestow long life, and on the five conditions which do. A.iii.145.
• Áyuvaddhana Kumára
• Ayyaká Sutta.-Pasenadí's grandmother died at the age of 120. He had been very fond of her, and would have done anything to have kept her. He was so grieved at her death that he came to the Buddha for consolation. The Buddha tells him that all creatures have to die. S.i.96ff.
• Ayyaká-kálaka
• Ayyamitta Thera
• Ayyamitta.-See Mahámitta (?).
• Ayya-Uttiya.-(°ika)