Pali Proper Names

• Sará Sutta. Records a conversation between a deva and the Buddha - where the four elements find no further footing, the flood ebbs, and there is no whirlpool. S.i.15.
• Sarabba Játaka. See the Sarabhamiga Játaka.
• Sarabha
• Sarabha Sutta. Relates the story of the Buddha's visit to Sarabha at the Paribbájakáráma. A.i.185f.
• Sarabhamiga Játaka (No. 483)
• Sarabhanga
• Sarabhanga Játaka (No. 522)
• Sarabhavatí. A city, the capital of King Sudassana (the Bodhisatta). It was visited by Vessabhú Buddha, who preached to the king. BuA. 207.
• Sarabhú
• Sarada 1. The name of Sáriputta in the time of Anomadassí Buddha. DhA.i.89; but see Ap.i.21, where he is called Suruci.
• Sarada 2. An ascetic who, with his large following, was converted by Padumuttara Buddha. BuA.160.
• Sáradassí
• Sarága Sutta. Four persons are found in the world: the lustful, the hateful, the deluded, the proud. A.ii.71.
• Saraggáma. A village in the district of Mahátila, in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxvi.71; lxvii.59,79.
• Sarájita. A Niraya in which those who die in battle are born (S.iv.311). The Commentary (SA.iii.100) says that it is not a distinctive purgatory, but a part of Avíci, where fighters of all sorts fight in imagination. Cf. Sarañjita.
• Sárajja Sutta
• Sarakáni
• Sarakáni (v.l. Saranáni) Vagga. The third chapter of the sotápatti Samyutta. S.v.369-91.
• Sárakappa. The name given to a kappa in which only one Buddha is born. BuA.158.
• Sáramandakappa. The name given to a kappa in which four Buddhas are born. BuA.159.
• Sárambha Játaka (No. 88)
• Sárambha. The Bodhisatta, born as an ox. See the Sárambha Játaka.
• Sarana
• Sarana Sutta. The Buddha teaches the "refuge" and the Path thereto. S.v.372.
• Sarana Thera.-A monk. He was given the name because, when he was in his mother's womb, she was rescued from death by her virtue. She was the daughter of Sumana and Sujampatiká of Sávatthi. Sarana later became an arahant. For details see Ras.i.15f.
• Saranágamaniya Thera. An arahant. Thirty one kappas ago, while he was travelling by sea with a monk and an Ájívaka, the boat capsized and the monk gave him the Refuges. Ap.i.285=ii.455.
• Saranankara
• Saranattaya. The, first section of the Khuddaka-Pátha.
• Sárandada
• Sáráníya Sutta
• Sáráníya Vagga. The second chapter of the Chakka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iii.288 308.
• Sarañjita. A class of Devas (the gods of "Passionate Delight"). According to the belief of some, a man who dies fighting is born among them. S.iv.308.
• Sarasigáma.-A village of Ceylon, the centre of a monastic establishment and the headquarter of the Vilgammúla (Sarasigámamúla) fraternity. See below, Sarogámatittha. P.L.C. 253.
• Sarassatí
• Sarassatímandapa. A building, erected by Parakkamabáhu I. near his palace at Pulatthipura. It was devoted to the arts of the Muses and was adorned with frescoes dealing with the life of the king. Cv.lxxiii.83 f.
• Sáratthadípaní
• Sáratthamañjúsá. A Tíká on the Anguttara Nikáya, attributed to Sáriputta of Ceylon. Gv.61; SadS.61; P.L.C.192. All the Múla-Tíká on the Sutta Pitaka seem to have borne this name. See SadS.59.
• Sáratthappakásiní. Buddhaghosa's Commentary on the Samyutta Nikáya, written at the, request of Jotipála, a monk. Gv.59; SadS.58.
• Sáratthasáliní. A Nava tíká on Dhammapála’s Saccasankhepa, by Sumangala, pupil of Sáriputta of Ceylon. P.L.C.200.
• Sáratthasamuccaya. The name given to the Catubhánaváratthakathá. It was written by a pupil of Ananda at the request of Vanaratana Thera of Ceylon. Published in Hewavitarne Bequest Series (Colombo), vol. xxvii.
• Sáratthasangaha
• Sáratthavikásiní. A tika on Kaccáyana's Páli grammar by Ariyálankára of Ava. Bode, op. cit., 37 n.2; 55.
• Sáratthavilásiní or Susaddasiddhi. A tíká on the Moggallána pañjiká by Sangharakkhita of Ceylon. P.L.C. 200.
• Sareheru. A tank in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabáhu I. Cv.ix.48.
• Sárí. A brahminee, mother of Sáriputta (1) (q.v.). Her full name was Rúpasárí.
• Sáriputta
• Sáriputta Samyutta. The twenty eighth division of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.iii.236 40.
• Sáriputta Sutta
• Sarírattha Sutta. Ten conditions inherent in the body: cold and heat, hunger and thirst, evacuation and urination, restraint of body, speech, living, and the aggregate that produces becoming (bhavasankhára). A.v.88.
• Saritacchadana. A king of eighty seven kappas ago, a previous birth of Sammukháthavika Thera. Ap.i.159.
• Sarívaggapitthi. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Vijayabáhu I. Cv.lvii.53.
• Sarogámatittha. A ford on the Maháválikanadí, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabáhu I. It is probably identical with Sarasigáma. Cv.lxxi.18; lxxii.1, 31; see also Cv.Trs.i.316, n.2.
• Sáropama Sutta. See Cúla Saropama and Mahá Sáropama Suttas.
• Sáruppa Sutta. On the proper way of approach to the uprooting of all conceits. S.iv.21.
• Sasa( pandita) Játaka (No. 316)
• Sásana Sutta. The Buddha tells Upáli in brief as to how various doctrines can be regarded as belonging to the Dhamma or otherwise. A.iv.143.
• Sásanavamsa
• Sasankhára Sutta
• Sásapa Sutta
• Sátá. An eminent Therí of Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.16.
• Satacakkhu. A king of thirty four kappas ago, a, previous birth of Pañcadípaka Thera. Ap.i.108.
• Satadhamma Játaka (No. 179)
• Satadhamma, Santadhamma. A youth of Benares. See the Sata-dhamma Játaka.
• Sátágira
• Sátágira Sutta. Another name for the Hemavata Sutta (q.v.). SNA.i.194.
• Sátapabbata. A mountain in Majjhimadesa, the abode of Sátágira (SNA.i.197). Many other Yakkas also lived there, three thousand of whom were present at the preaching of the Mahásamaya Sutta. D.ii.257.
• Satapatta 1. A king of seventy three kappas ago, a previous birth of Nalinakesariya Thera. Ap.i.223.
• Satapatta 2. A palace, once occupied by Ukkhittapadumiya Thera. Ap.i.275.
• Satapatta Játaka (No. 279)
• Sataporisa. A Niraya, meant especially for matricides. It is filled with decaying corpses. J.v.269, 274.
• Sataramsi
• Sataramsika Thera. An arahant. In the past he saw Padumuttara Buddha and worshipped him. In this life he joined the Order at the age of seven, and rays constantly issued from his body. Sixty thousand kappas ago he was king four times under the name of Roma. Ap.i.104f.
• Satarasa. A kind of food which Paripunnaka Thera was in the habit of eating before joining the Order (ThagA.i.190). It was probably made of one hundred essences.
• Sataruddhá. A canal flowing eastward from the Aciravatí Channel in Ceylon. Cv.lxxix.53.
• Sátaváhana
• Satayha Sutta. See Ogadha Sutta.
• Sati Sutta 1. Mindfulness ifs necessary for one who sees not things as they really are. A.ii.132.
• Sati Sutta 2. When mindfulness and self possession are lacking, various evil results follow, as in the case of a tree which is devoid of branches and foliage. A.iv.336f.
• Sáti Thera
• Sati Vagga. The ninth chapter of the Atthaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iv.336 50.
• Sátimattiya Thera
• Satipatthána Samyutta. The forty seventh section of the Samyutta Nikáya. S.v.141 2.
• Satipatthána Sutta
• Satipatthána Vagga. The seventh chapter of the Navaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iv.457-61.
• Satipatthánakathá. The eighth chapter of the Paññá Vagga of the Pathisambhidá-Magga. PS.ii.232 6.
• Satisambodhi Thera.-A monk of Piyangudípa. See Ariyagálatissa.
• Sato Sutta
• Sátodíká. A river in Surattha (Surat). Sálissara lived in a hermitage on its banks after he left the Kavitthaka hermitage. J.iii.463; but at J.v.133 it is Mendissara who lived there.
• Satta Sutta
• Satta vassáni Sutta
• Sattabhariyá Sutta
• Sattabhú. The king of the Kálingas in the time of Renu. His purohita was Jotipála, and his capital, Dantapura. D.ii.236.
• Sattadáraka pañha. A section of the Maháummagga Játaka, dealing with seven riddles solved by Mahosadha. J.vi.339.
• Sattáhapabbajita Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he had a quarrel with his kinsmen and joined the Order under Vipassí Buddha for seven days. Sixty seven kappas ago he was king seven times, under the name of Sunikkhamma. Ap.i.242.
• Sattakadambapupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he met seven Pacceka Buddhas on Kadamba Mountain and offered them seven garlands of kadamba flowers. Ap.i.382f.
• Sattakammapatha Sutta. On seven courses of action. S.ii.167.
• Sattamba, Sattambaka
• Sattanása Sutta. On the unworthy man and the still more unworthy; the worthy man and the still more worthy. A.ii.218.
• Sattánisamsa Sutta. Seven advantages resulting from the cultivation of the five indriyas. S.v.237.
• Sattapaduminiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he was a brahmin, named Nesáda, and, seeing Siddhattha Buddha in the forest, he swept his hut and offered lotus flowers. Seven kappas ago he was king four times, under the name of Pádapávara. Ap.i.254.
• Sattapannaka pásáda. A building in Anurádhapura for the residence of the monks, evidently built by Vohárikatissa (Mhv.xxxvi.32). The Mahá Vamsa Commentary (MT. 662) says that it was attached to the palace.
• Sattapanniguhá
• Sattapanniya Thera. An arahant. One hundred thousand kappas ago he offered a  sattapanni flower to Sumana Buddha. Ap.i.292.
• Sattapátaliya Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he saw the Buddha (Siddhattha?) and offered him pátali flowers. Ap.i.227.
• Sattaputtakhádaká. A petí who ate seven of her children because of a false oaths worn by her in a previous birth. Cf. Pañcaputtakhádaká. Pv.i.7; PvA.36f.
• Sattarasavaggiyá. A group of monks in the Buddha's time, who seem to have incurred the enmity of the Chabbaggíyas. The latter turned them out of a vihára as soon as they had prepared it, and were violent towards them. Vin.ii.166; cf, DhA.iii.48f.
• Sattasatikakhandhaka. The twelfth chapter of the Culla Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. It gives an account of the Second Council. Vin.ii.294f.
• Sattasirísaka. A group of seven sirísaka trees, near Benares, where the Buddha preached to the Nága king Erakaputta (q.v.). DhA.iii.230, 232.
• Sattasuriya Sutta. Mentioned in the scholiast to the Ayoghara Játaka (J.iv.498). The reference is evidently to the Suriya Sutta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iv.100f.; see Suriya Sutta (1).
• Sattatthána Sutta. Seven points, skill in which makes a monk who is an investigator in three separate ways claim to accomplish in the Dhamma-vinaya, one who has reached mastership (vusitavá), a superman (uttamapuriso). S.iii.61f.
• Sattávása Vagga. The third chapter of the Navaka Nipáta of the Anguttara Nikáya. A.iv.390-409.
• Satthá. A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.70; MA.ii.890.
• Satthaváha. Son of Konágamana Buddha in his last lay life. His mother was Rucigattá. Bu.xxiv.19; DA.ii.422.
• Satthikúta(sahassa)peta
• Satthipeyyála. A series of short suttas, forming the seventeenth chapter of the Saláyatana Samyutta. S.iv.148 57.
• Satthuka. See Sattuka (2).
• Satti Sutta. Attempts to overthrow a mind which had developed liberation of the will through love are as futile as the attempt to double up a sharp spear. S.ii.265.
• Satti Vagga. The third chapter of the Devatá Samyutta. S.i.13 16.
• Sattigumba Játaka (No. 503)
• Sattigumba. Devadatta born as a parrot. See the Sattigumba Játaka.
• Sattimágaví Sutta. The story of a peta seen by Moggallána, going through the air while javelins kept rising and falling on his body. He had been a deer hunter in Rájagaha. S.ii.257.
• Sattipanniya Thera
• Sattisata Sutta.-A wise householder should be glad if an offer were made to him that he should comprehend the Four Noble Truths after being tormented with one hundred spears three times a day for one hundred years. For incalculable is samsára. S.v.440.
• Sattisúla. A Niraya. Ajjuna was once born there because he tortured Angirasa Gotama. His body was three leagues in height. The attendants pierced him with red hot stakes and made him mount a heated iron mountain. From there a wind threw him down on to a stake. J.v.143, 145.
• Sattiyá Sutta. The Buddha tells a deva that sakkáya-ditthi should be got rid of by a monk as though he were smitten down by an impending sword. S.i.13.
• Sattubhasta Játaka (No. 402)
• Sattuka
• Sattuppalamáliká Therí. An Arahant (Ap.ii.517). Evidently identical with Abhayá Therí. ThigA.42f.
• Sattuttama. A Cakkavatti of nine kappas ago, a previous birth of Kakkárupupphiya (Jenta) Thera. Ap.i.177; ThagA.i.220.
• Satulakáyí
• Satullapakáyiká
• Sava. A stronghold in Rohana. Cv.lxxiv.60.
• Sávajja Sutta
• Savanaviyala. A place in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.2.
• Savara. See Sapara. In the Milinda (p.191), Savara is mentioned as a place where people are unable to appreciate the value of red sandal wood. Tradition calls it a city of Candálas. See Milinda Questions, i.267, n.1.
• Saváraka. A village where Rukkha, a kinsman of Kassapa IV., built a vihára, which he handed over to the Mahávihára. Cv.lii.31.
• Savattha. A sage. Sávatthi was founded on the site of his hermitage. SNA.i.300; PSA. 367.
• Sávatthi
• Savittha Thera
• Savitthaka 1. An example of a low family name. Vin.iv.8,13.
• Savitthaka 2. Devadatta born as a crow. See the Víraka Játaka.
• Sávitti
• Sayahattaka. A locality in the Malaya district of Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxx.15.
• Sayam kata Sutta. When one has right view, one knows that weal and woe are self wrought, etc. A.iii.440.
• Sayampabhá
• Sayampabha. A king of seventy two kappas ago, a previous birth of Pañcanguliya Thera. Ap.i.186.
• Sayampatibhániya Thera. An arahant. He is evidently to be identified with Khujjasobhita Thera. Ap.ii.410f.
• Sayana Sutta. Few are they who abstain from high and low beds. S.v.471.
• Sayanadáyaka Thera
• Sayanakalaha. The name given to a quarrel between Malliká and Pasenadi. See the Sujáta Játaka (No. 306).
• Sayha
• Sayha Játaka (No. 310)
• Sayhaka Sutta. See Abhisanda Sutta (2).