1. Pingala. See Mahá Pingala.
2. Pingala. A cow killing huntsman, a former birth of Aláta. J.vi.227.
3. Pingala. King of Surattha, contemporary of Dhammásoka, whose adviser he was. One day, as Pingala was returning from Dhammásoka's court, the peta Nandaka, father of Uttará, revealed himself and instructed him to follow the Buddha's teaching. Pv.iv.3; PvA.244ff.
4. Pingala. A race of elephants (MA.i.262; VibhA.397; UdA.403; AA.ii.822), each having the strength of one hundred thousand men. BuA.37.