Pali Proper Names - K -

• Kubbikála.-See Kupikala.
• Kubbugáma.-See Kumbugáma.
• Kubera.-See Kuvera.
• Kubukandanadí.-A river in Ceylon. On its banks was the Samudda-vihára (Mhv.xxxiv.90).
• Kubúlagalla.-A locality in Rohana. It was one of the strongholds captured by Vijayabáhu I. Cv.lviii.36.
• Kuddadhána.-See Kundadhána.
• Kuddála (Kuddálaka)-pandita
• Kuddála Játaka (No.70)
• Kuddálamandala.-A village in Rohana. Here a battle took place between the forces of Parakkamabáhu I. and his enemies (Cv.lxxv.16).
• Kuddarajja.-Probably a district in Rohana. See also Mahávápi Viháva.
• Kuddavátakapásána.-A rock in Pásánatittha (q.v.).
• Kuha Sutta.-Monks who are cheats, stubborn and uncontrolled, are no followers of the Buddha. A.ii.26; found also in It.113, cf. Thag.959.
• Kuhaka Játaka (No.89)
• Kuhaka Sutta.-Five qualities, such as deceitfulness, which make a monk disagreeable to his fellow monks. A.iii.111f.
• Kuhakábráhmana Vatthu
• Kujjatissa Thera
• Kukku Játaka (No.396)
• Kukku Vagga.-The first section of the Sutta Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.iii.317-63.
• Kukkuha.-See Kukkuta (2).
• Kukkula
• Kukkula Sutta.-The Ariyan disciple feels aversion from body, feeling, etc., because he knows that they are a mass of glowing embers. S.iii.177.
• Kukkula Vagga.-The fourteenth chapter of the Khandha Samyutta. S.iii.177-80.
• Kukkura Játaka (No 22)
• Kukkura.-A rock near Himavá. The Buddha Vipassí once visited it, and Pupphathúpiya lived there in a previous birth (Ap.i.158).
• Kukkuravatika Sutta
• Kukkurováda.-See Kukkura Játaka (1).
• Kukkuta
• Kukkuta Játaka (No.383, 448)
• Kukkutagiri.-A place in Ceylon. Buddhaghosa says (SA.iii.50) that it was so called because it was there that Saddhátissa’s attendant, Tissa (see Tissa 43), refused to kill some pheasants and set them free at the risk of losing his own life.
• Kukkutagiri-parivena
• Kukkutamitta
• Kukkutandakhádiká Vatthu
• Kukkutáráma
• Kukkutáráma Sutta.-Three suttas which contain discussions between Ananda and Bhadda, at the Kukkutáráma in Pátaliputta, regarding the righteous life (S.v.15f).
• Kukkutasúkara Sutta.-Few abstain from accepting fowls and swine, many do not. S.v.472.
• Kukkutavatí
• Kukkutika.-See Gokulika.
• Kukkuttha.-See Kakudha (5).
• Kukkutthá.-See Kakutthá.
• Kukutthá.-A river; see Kakutthá.
• Kula Sutta
• Kula Thera.-See Kundala.
• Kulaghara.-See Kuraraghara.
• Kulagharaní Sutta.-See Ogálha Sutta.
• Kulálitissa.-A monastery in Ceylon. Over the thúpa in the monastery King Vohárika-Tissa erected a parasol. Mhv.xxxvi.33.
• Kulanta-vápi (Kulattha-vápi).-A tank to the south of Anurádhapura. In the battle between the forces of Dutthagámaní and Elára the water in the tank was dyed red with blood of the slain, hence the name. Mhv.xxv.66.
• Kulaputta Sutta.-Clansmen who go forth into homelessness do so in order to gain full comprehension of the Four Noble Truths. This is true for all time. S.v.415.
• Kulaputtena-dukkhá Sutta.-Three suttas. A clansman who goes forth should live (1) in aversion from body etc., or (2) seeing impermanence in them, or (3) seeing no soul in them. S.iii.179.
• Kulasekhara
• Kulavaddhaka.-Given as a name used ironically to insult another. Vin.iv.8.
• Kulavaddhana.-A rich merchant of Sudassana (Benares) who tried to stop his king, Sutasoma, from renouncing the world by offering him all his wealth. He is identified with (Mahá?) Kassapa. J.v.185, 192.
• Kulávaka Játaka (No.31)
• Kulávaka Sutta.-The story of Sakka's flight from the Asuras. When he saw the Garulas crushed under his chariot wheels, he asked his driver, Mátali, to turn back and risk death at the hands of the Asuras. But the Asuras fled (S.i.224). cp. Kulávaka Játaka.
• Kulávaka Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.i.198-234.
• Kulinga.-The name of a clan, probably Sinhalese. Mahinda VI. belonged to this clan (Cv.lxxx.15). The Kulingas were among the tribes sent to Ceylon by Asoka with the Bodhi-tree. Mhv.xix.2; see also Mhv. Trs.128, n.2, and Cv.Trs.i.29, n.2, and ii.126, n.5.
• Kulla Thera
• Kulumba Sutta
• Kulumbari-kanniká.-A district in Ceylon; the birthplace of Mahá Sona (Mhv.xxiii.45). According to the Mahávamsa Commentary it was in Rohana. MT.45.
• Kulupaka Sutta
• Kumá.-Wife of a householder in Velukanda in the Avanti country. She was the mother of Nanda Thera, also called Kumáputta. ThagA.1.100.
• Kumáputta.-See Nanda Kumáputta. Mhv.v.212.
• Kumáputtasaháya.-See Sudatta (11).
• Kumára 1.-Father of Bhárana. He lived in Kappakandara. Mhv.xxiii.64.
• Kumára 2.-Name of the god Skanda. He rode on a peacock. It is said that Kumára gave a boon to Mánavamma. Cv.lvii.7, 10; see also Hopkins: Epic Mythology, p.227.
• Kumára Sutta
• Kumáradhátusena (Kumáradása).-Son of Moggallána I, and king of Ceylon (513-522 A.C.). His son was Kittisena (Cv.xli.1f). Tradition tells of his friendship with a poet Kálidisa. The authorship of the Jánakíharana is generally ascribed to him (Cv.Trs.i.51, n.1).
• Kumára-Kassapa
• Kumára-Kassapa-thera Vatthu.-The story of Kumára-Kassapa (q.v.) and his mother. DhA.iii.144ff.
• Kumárapabba.-The section of the Vessantara Játaka which deals with the giving away of Vessantara's children to Jújaka. J.vi.555.
• Kumárapañha
• Kumárapeta Vatthu
• Kumárasena.-Brother of Dhátusena. He helped Dhátusena to crush the Damilas, and was amply rewarded for his services. Cv.xxxviii.35, 53.
• Kumárasíha.-Son of Vimaladhammasúriya; he was adopted by King Senáratana and given the province of Uva. He died young. Cv.xcv.22; also Cv.Trs.ii.233, n.3.
• Kumáribhúta Vagga.-The eighth section of the Bhikkhuní Pácittiya. Vin.iv.327-37.
• Kumárípañhá
• Kumáriya Sutta.-Few abstain from accepting women or girls, many do not. S.v.471.
• Kumba.-See Kumbagáma.
• Kumbagáma.-A Damila stronghold near Anurádhapura, which was captured by Dutthagámani. It was commanded by Kumba (Mhv.xxv.14).
• Kumbálaka.-One of the. tanks built by Mahásena. Mhv.xxxvii.48.
• Kumbalatissa-pabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
• Kumbalaváta.-A locality near Anurádhapura; through it passed the boundary of the Mahávihára (Mhv. p.332; Mbv.134; Dpv.xiv.38).
• Kumbha Játaka (No.512)
• Kumbha Sutta
• Kumbha Vagga.-The fifth chapter of the Tika Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.ii.431-51.
• Kumbhaghosaka
• Kumbhakanna
• Kumbhakára Játaka (No.408)
• Kumbhanda
• Kumbhandá.-A class of beings (fairies or gnomes) grouped with Yakkhas, Rakkhasas, Asuras and others. Virúlha is their king. They have large bellies (kumbhanda = gourd), and their genitals are also large like pots (kumbho viya), hence their name. D.iii.198; DA.iii.964.
• Kumbhapura.-The residence of Kisavaccha (MA.ii.599); it is evidently another name for Kumbhavatí (q.v.).
• Kumbhavatí.-A city in the kingdom of King Dandaki. Kisavaccha lived in the park near there. J.iii.463; v.29, 134.
• Kumbhigallaka.-A monastery in Ceylon. Vasabha built an uposatha-house there. Mhv.xxxv.86.
• Kumbhíla Játaka (No.206).-Evidently another version of the Vánarinda Játaka, though the scholiast refers to another Kumbhíla Játaka for particulars (thus in all MSS). J.ii.206.
• Kumbhíla Vihára.-A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.111.
• Kumbhílasobbha.-A tank restored by Vijayabáhu I. (Cv.lx.50), and later by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxix.33.
• Kumbhílavánaka.-A river in Ceylon which joins the Sankhavaddhamánaka. Cv.lxviii.32; see also Cv.Trs.i.279, n.4.
• Kumbhíra
• Kumbiyangana.-See Kutumbiyangana.
• Kumbugáma (v.l. Kubbugáma).-A village in Rohana. It is mentioned in the campaigns of Damiládhakárí Rakkha (Cv.lxxv.149, 167, 172).
• Kumbulapabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon. Ariyagálatissa found sixty treasure troves there. Ras.ii.137.
• Kumma Sutta
• Kummásadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago, having nothing else to give, he put sour gruel into the bowl of Vipassí Buddha (Ap.ii.415). He is evidently identical with Sívaka Thera. ThagA.i.307.
• Kummásapinda Játaka (No.416)
• Kumuda
• Kumudadáyaka Thera
• Kumudamáliya Thera
• Kunála
• Kunála Játaka (No.536)
• Kunálá.-The name of a river (mahánadí) which flows out of the Kunáladaha. It dries up when, at the end of the kappa, the fourth sun rises. A.iv.101.
• Kunappunallura.-A market town in South India in the district of Viraganga (Cv.lxxvi.131).
• Kuñcanága, Kuñjanága
• Kunda.-A yakkha who once inhabited a forest, called Kundadhána (UdA.122) after him.
• Kundadhána Thera
• Kundadhánavana
• Kundakakucchisindhava Játaka (No.254)
• Kundaka-kumára.-The lay name of the ascetic Khantivádí. J.iii.39.
• Kundakapúva Játaka (No.109)
• Kundakasindhavapotaka Játaka.-See Kundakakucchisindhava Játaka.
• Kundalá
• Kundala (v.l. Kulakundala) Thera
• Kundalakesá, Kundalakesí.-See Bhaddá Kundalakesí.
• Kundalakesittheri Vatthu.-The story of Bhaddá Kundalakesí (q.v.). DhA.ii.217ff.
• Kundalí
• Kundalí Sutta.-Records the visit of Kundaliya to the Buddha. S.v.73ff.
• Kundaliní.-The name given to the offspring of the sáriká(myna)-bird in the Tesakuna Játaka. She is identified with Uppalavanná. J.v.125.
• Kundaliní-pañha.-The questions asked by the king and the answers given by Kundaliní, as stated in the Tesakuna Játaka. J.v.120.
• Kundaliya
• Kundaráyana.-See Kandaráyana.
• Kundasálá.-A suburb of Sirivaddhanapura (Kandy), on the banks of the Maháváluka-gangá. It was laid out by King Narindasíha, who made it his favourite residence (Cv.xcvii.34). Kittisirirájasíha planned its garden and erected a vihára. Cv.c.216f.
• Kundavana.-See Gundávana.
• Kundayamutta.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. He was defeated in battle by Lankápura. Cv.lxxvi.94, 177.
• Kundayankotta (?). A locality in South India, where Lankápura once pitched his camp (Cv.lxxvi.176).
• Kundi, Kundiya
• Kundinagariya Thera.-The name given to Potthapáda because he was born and brought up in Kundi. He lived in the Sánavásípabbata nearby. Pv.iii.2; PvA.177ff.
• Kunditthâna.-See Kundadhána.
• Kundiyá.-See Kundadhánavana.
• Kundukála
• Kunhána.-See Kundadhána.
• Kuñjara 1.-Devánampiyatissa's elephant, tied to the plough which marked the símá of the Mahávihára. Dpv.xiv.28; Mbv.134; see also Mhv., p.331.
• Kuñjara 2.-One of the chief lay patrons of Revata Buddha. Bu.vi.23.
• Kuñjarahinaka.-A monastery built by Lañjatissa. Mhv.xxxiii.27.
• Kunta.-A throne (for an image) which was originally in the Pácina-vihára of the Theravádins, and was later set up beside the Bodhi-tree of the Abhayagiri-vihára by Silákála (Cv.xli.31).
• Kuntamálaka.-A locality near Anurádhapura through which passed the boundary of the Mahá-vihára. It was the point from which the king started to mark the símá. v.l. Kotthamálaka. (Mhv., p.331; Mbv.134; Dpv.xiv.28, 33).
• Kuntani Játaka (No.343)
• Kuntavará.-The soldiers of a district in South India who fought against the Sinhalese force that invaded their territory (Cv.lxxvi.246). They were subdued by the Kesa-dhátu Kitti (Cv.lxxvi.259).
• Kuntí.-A kinnarí, mother of the theras Tissa and Sumitta. Their father was a former inhabitant of Pátaliputta."
• Kupikkala.-The birthplace of the Elder Mahá-Tissa. v.l. Kuvikkala, Kubbikála, Kutthikula. Mhv.xxxiii.49.
• Kuppa Sutta.-The monk who has the four patisambhidá and has an emancipated mind realises that which is unshakable (akuppa). A.iii.119f.
• Kupuvena.-A village and a monastery. The story of a sámanera of the monastery, as given in the Majjhima Commentary (MA.ii.700), is similar, except in regard to the names, to the story given under Kabupelanda (q.v.).
• Kurandaka
• Kurangaví
• Kuraragham-Papáta-pabbata.-See Papáta-pabbata.
• Kuraraghara
• Kuraraghariká.-See Kálí (2).
• Kuraraghariya-Sona.-The name by which Sona Kutikanna is some-times referred to. E.g., J.vi.15.
• Kuravakagalla.-A place in Rohana where Damiládhikárí Rakkha defeated his enemies. Cv.lxxv.137.
• Kureñjiyaphaladáyaka (Kuruñjiya°) Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a hunter, and having seen the Buddha Sikhí in the forest, he gave him a kureñjiya-fruit (Ap.ii.448f). He is evidently identical with Sona-Setthiputta Thera (ThagA.i.316f).
• Kuru
• Kurudeva.-A poor man, who lived in Vattura Vihára, eating large quantities of food and doing no work. Listening to the advice of a monk, he took the five precepts and fed fishes with a part of his meal. He was later born as Mahánela.
• Kurudhamma = the pañcasíla
• Kurudhamma Játaka (No.276)
• Kurukaccha.-Probably a wrong reading for Bhárukaccha.
• Kurukhetta.-Another name for the country of the Kurús. J.vi.291.
• Kurumba.-A Damila chief, subdued by Lankápura. Cv.lxxvii.14f.
• Kurumbándanakali.-A locality in South India, where a great battle was fought between Lankápura and Kulasekhara (Cv.lxxvi.157).
• Kurundacullaka.-A parivena in the Jetavana-vihára in Ceylon, the residence of Dáthávedhaka. MT.176.
• Kurundankundiya.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.236, 266.
• Kurundapillaka.-A monastery in Ceylon. Potthakuttha erected a pásáda there (Cv.xlvi.21).
• Kurundavápi.-A tank built by Aggabodhi I. (Cv.xlii.15; Cv.Trs.i.66, n.6).
• Kurundavásoka-Vihára.-A monastery built by Khallátanága (Mhv.xxxiii.32).
• Kurundavelu.-A vihára in Ceylon, where was compiled the Kurundí-Atthakathá.
• Kurunda-Vihára.-A monastery built by Aggabodhi I. and dedicated to all three fraternities (Cv.xlii.15).
• Kurundí.-A village in Ceylon. Cv.lxxxiii.16; lxxxviii.64; Cv.Trs.ii.149, n.9.
• Kurundí-Atthakathá
• Kurundírattha.-See Kurundí above.
• Kurundiya-Vihára.-A monastery repaired by Vijayabáhu I. (Cv.lx.60); probably identical with Kurunda-Vihára.
• Kurungamiga Játaka (No.21, 206)
• Kurungamiga Vagga.-The third section of the Eka Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.i.173-98.
• Kuruvaka-tittha.-A secluded bathing-place in a large pond near the Cittalapabbata-vihára (MA.ii.1025).
• Kusa
• Kusa Játaka (No.531)
• Kusaghara.-A city (?). The Buddha's lower robe (nivásana) was deposited there after his death. Bu.xxviii.8.
• Kusalá Sutta 1.-Conditions which are on the side of goodness have their root in earnestness (appamáda); the earnest monk cultivates the seven bojjhangas. S.v.91.
• Kusalá Sutta 2. Similar to No.1. The conditions have their root in yoniso-manasikára. S.v.92.
• Kusalarási Sutta 1.-The five hindrances (nivarana) could rightly be called a heap of demerit and the five satipatthánas a heap of merit. S.v.145.
• Kusalarási Sutta 2.-The four satipatthánas could rightly be called a heap of merit. S.v.186.
• Kusamáli.-One of the seas through which the mariner Suppáraka (q.v.) piloted his ship. It was full of emeralds and looked like an expanse of dark kusa-grass. Its full name was Nílavanna Kusamála. J.iv.140.
• Kusamba (Kusumba).-A sage (isi), on the site of whose hermitage was built the city which came, for that reason, to be called Kosambí. SNA.i.300; MA.ii.539; UdA.248; PsA.413; see also Rámáyana i.34.
• Kusanáli Játaka (No.121)
• Kusanáli Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Eka Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.i.441-65.
• Kusatthakadáyaka Thera.-An arahant. In the time of Kassapa Buddha he was a brahmin and gave the Buddha kusatthaka (eight handfuls of kusa-grass?) (Ap.ii.416). He is evidently to be identified with Migasira Thera. ThagA.i.306.
• Kusávátí
• Kusima.-See Kusumí below.
• Kusinárá
• Kusinárá Sutta
• Kusinárá Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Tíká Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.i.274-84; for a summary of its contents see A.v.381.
• Kusinárá Vihára.-A monastery built by Parakkamabáhu I. in a suburb of Pulatthipura, called Síhapura. It consisted of three image houses, each containing three storeys, six pásádas, etc. Cv.lxxiii.152; lxxviii.84; also Cv.Trs.ii.18, n.3.
• Kusinátá.-One of the cities of Uttarakuru (D.iii.200).
• Kusíta Sutta 1.-A woman who is faithless, shameless, unscrupulous, indolent and of weak wisdom is reborn in purgatory. S.iv.242.
• Kusíta Sutta 2.-Eight occasions on which a monk is apt to become indolent (A.iv.332f).
• Kusumamúlagáma.-A village near Padumanagara, residence of the Thera Dhammadhara. (Sás.163)
• Kusumanagara.-The Páli name for the city now known as Bassein, in Burma (Bode, op. cit., 24). Near the city was the birthplace of Chapata. Sás.74; see also pp.41, 43, 147; Ind. Ant. 1893, xxi.17.
• Kusumapura.-See Pátaliputta.
• Kusumáráma.-Another name for Puppháráma. (Cv. ci.7)
• Kusumásaniya Thera
• Kusumí.-A seaport in Rámañña where a part of the Sinhalese expeditionary force sent by Parakkamabáhu I. landed in five ships (Cv.lxxvi.59). It is probably the same as Kusumatittha mentioned in the Sásanavamsa (E.g., pp.66, 90) as a seaport. v.l. Kusima.
• Kúta Sutta
• Kútadanta
• Kútadanta Sutta
• Kútágárasálá
• Kutajapupphiya Thera
• Kutakannatissa (Kutikannatissa)
• Kútáli Vihára.-A monastery in Rohana, founded by Kákavannatissa (Mhv.xxii.23). There Malaya-Deva Thera once preached the Cha-Cakka Sutta, and sixty monks who listened to him became arahants (MA.ii.1024). This may be identical with the Kutelitissa Vihára (q.v.).
• Kútatissa Vihára.-A monastery in Ceylon. Sena II gave to it a maintenance village. Cv.li.74. In the pillar inscription of Mahinda IV. in Polonnaruva it is mentioned as the Kututisa-rad-maha-veher (Ep. Zey.ii.50).
• Kútavánija Játaka (No. 98, 218)
• Kútavinicchayaka-peta
• Kutelitissamahá-vihára
• Kutendu.-A vassal of the Cátummahárájikas, present at the preaching of the Mahá Samaya Sutta. D.ii.258.
• Kuthárasabhá.-Some sort of council chamber, probably attached to the Court in Ceylon. Kittisirimegha is mentioned as employing the services of the head of the sabhá to fetch the prince Parakkamabáhu from his retreat (Cv.lxvi.61).
• Kuthári-vihára.-A monastery in Ambatthakola used by Moggallána I. as his headquarters in his campaign against Kassapa I. Cv.xxxix.21.
• Kutidáyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he made a hut for a Buddha. Thirty-eight kappas ago he was king sixteen times under the name of Sabbattha-abhivassí. Ap.i.229.
• Kutidhúpaka Thera.-An arahant. In a past birth he looked after the cell of Siddhattha Buddha and burnt incense in it from time to time. Ap.i.223f.
• Kutidúsaka Játaka (No.321)
• Kutidúsaka Vagga.-The third chapter of the Catukka Nipáta of the Játaka Commentary. J.iii.71-102.
• Kutivihárí Thera
• Kuttándára.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara, defeated by Lankápura. Cv.lxxvi.182, 190.
• Kuttapiti.-A large village given by Kittisirirájasíha for the maintenance of the sacred Footprint in Samanakúta. Cv.c.225.
• Kutthuka.-The general of Sena II. He built the parivena, which was called Senasenápati (Cv.li.88). See also Potthakuttha.
• Kutúhalasálá Sutta
• Kutumbariya
• Kutumbiya Vihára.-A monastery in Ceylon. It was once the residence of Tissamahánága Thera (q.v.).
• Kutumbiyangana.-A village in Ceylon in the district of Giri. It was the birthplace of Velusumana. v.l. Kumbiyangana. Mhv.xxiii.68.
• Kutumbiyaputta-Tissa
• Kuvanná
• Kuvera (Kubera)
• Kuveradvára.-One of the fourteen gates of Pulatthipura, erected by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxiii.161.
• Kuvera-náliní.-A name given to Dharaní. D.iii.202; DA.iii.968.
• Kyánagáma.-A village in the Malaya country, not far from Pulatthipura. Lankádhikári Kitti once encamped there (Cv.lxx.283, 300; lxxii.207), and Parakkamabáhu I. went there disguised as a musician. Cv.lxxii.264.