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  • Kabupelanda
  • Kacangala. See Kajangala.
  • Kācaragāma, Kājaragāma, Kātaragāma
  • Kaccāna
  • Kaccānā
  • Kaccāna Peyyāla/Sutta
  • Kaccānī 1. The old woman whose story is related in the story of the past in the Kaccāni Jātaka.
  • Kaccānī 2.See also Kātiyānī.
  • Kaccāni Jātaka (No. 417)
  • Kaccāni Vagga. The first section of the Atthaka Nipāta of the Jātakattakathā. J.iii.422-28.
  • Kaccāyana
  • Kaccāyanabheda
  • Kaccāyanagandha. One of the six books ascribed to Mahā Kaccāyana (Gv.59); it probably refers to the Kaccāyana-vyākarana.
  • Kaccāyanasāra
  • Kaccāyanavannanā. A commentary on Kaccāyana's grammar by a thera of Ceylon, named Vijitāvī (Svd.1242). It deals with the sections on Sandhikappa. Bode, 46.
  • Kaccāyana-vyākarana
  • Kaccāyanayoga. A name given to the aphorisms in Kaccāyana-vyākarana. Bode, op. cit., p.21.
  • Kacchaka-(Kaccha-)tittha
  • Kacchakadaha
  • Kacchapa Jātaka (No. 178, 215, 273)
  • Kacchapagiri. Another name, according to the Mahāvamsa Tika (MT.652) for the Issarasamana-vihāra. It is perhaps a variation of Kassapagiri.
  • Kacchavāla. A monastery built for the Pamsukalikas by Vajira, general of Dappula II. Cv.xlix.80.
  • Kadakudda
  • Kadalīgāma
  • Kadalīnivātaka
  • Kadalīpattagāma. A village in Rohana near the ford called Nīlavalā, and close to the modern Mātara. Cv.lxxv.49; Cv.Trs.ii.48, n.2.
  • Kadalīphaladāyaka Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he saw a Buddha and gave him a banana fruit (Ap.i.297). He is probably identical with Cūlaka Thera (ThagA.ii.334).
  • Kadalīpupphiya. See Kandalīpupphiya.
  • Kadalisālagāma. A village in Ceylon, the residence of Vilasa (q.v.).
  • Kadalīvāta. One of the Vanni kings of Ceylon, head of the mercenary soldiers who were driven out of Ceylon by Bhuvanekabāhu I. (Cv.xc.33).
  • Kadamba, Kadambaka
  • Kadambagona. A vihāra built by Aggabodhi V. in Mahāthala, and probably presented to the Pamsukūlins. Cv.xlviii.3; Cv.Trs.i.110, n.1.
  • Kadambapupphiya Thera
  • Kaddamadaha. A lake, on the bank of which was Vāranā, where Mahā-Kaccāna once stayed, and where he was visited by the brahmin Ārāmadanda. A.i.65.
  • Kaddūragāma. A village near Ālisāra; the village entrenchment was captured by Māyāgeha, general of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.165.
  • Kaddūravaddhamāna
  • Kadiliya. A Tamil chief who was defeated by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. at Kundayankotta. Cv.lxxvi.177.
  • Kāhallivāpi. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.37.
  • Kājagallaka. A village in Ceylon, probably near modern Kurunegala. An elephant-stable was there, from which Bhuvanekabāhu I. took an elephant. Cv.xc.9.
  • Kajangalā
  • Kajangala (Kajangalā)
  • Kāka
  • Kāka Jātaka (No.140, 146, 395)
  • Kāka Sutta. The wicked monk is like a crow in that he possesses the same ten qualities: offensiveness, recklessness, shamelessness, excessive greed, cruelty, gruesomeness, want of strength, "earthyness" (? oravitā), bewilderment and meanness. A.v.149; see also G.S.v.101.
  • Kakacūpama Sutta
  • Kākadīpa
  • Kākālaya. A village in Ceylon where there was a Tamil stronghold captured by Parakkamabāhu II. Cv.lxxxiii.12.
  • Kākanda, Kākandī. The commentaries speak of Kākanda as a sage of yore and mention him in the company of Savattha and Kusumba. His residence later came to be called Kākandī. SnA.i.300; cp. KhpA.110; UdA.55.
  • Kākandaka. A brahmin, father of Yasa Thera, the latter being generally referred to as Yasa Kākandakaputta (q.v.). Mhv.iv.12, 49, 57, etc.; Dpv. v.23; Mbv.96.
  • Kākaneru. One of the highest mountains in the world; mentioned together with Mālāgiri, Himavā, Gijjha, Sudassana and Nisabha. J. vi.204, 212.
  • Kākannādu. A district in South India subdued by the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.262.
  • Kakantaka Jātaka. The same as the Kakantaka-Pańha.
  • Kakantaka-Pańha
  • Kakantaka Vagga. The fifteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J. i.487-511.
  • Kākātī Jātaka (No.327)
  • Kākātī. Chief queen of the Bodhisatta, in one of his births as king of Benares. See Kākātī Jātaka.
  • Kākavaliya, Kākavalliya
  • Kākavanna-Tissa
  • Kakkara Jātaka (No. 209)
  • Kakkarapatta. A township of the Koliyans. It was while the Buddha was staying there that the Koliyan Dīghajānu came to see him. A.iv.281.
  • Kakkāru Jātaka (No. 326)
  • Kakkārupūjaka Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a deva and offered a kakkāru-flower to the Buddha Sikhī. Nine kappas ago he was a king named Sattuttama (Ap.i.177). He is evidently identical with Jenta Thera. ThagA.i.219.
  • Kakkārupupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he was a deva in the Yāma-world and, approaching the Pacceka Buddha Gotama, offered him a kakkāru-flower. v.l. Kekkāru°. Ap.i.286.
  • Kakkata
  • Kakkata Jātaka (No. 267)
  • Kakkatarasadāyaka-vimāna Vatthu
  • Kakkhala
  • Kakkhalavitthi. A village given by Jetthatissa III. for the maintenance of the Veluvana-vihāra (near Anurādhapura). Cv.xliv.99.
  • Kakkola. A district in South India which supplied soldiers to Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.2.
  • Kākola. A hell; beings born there are dragged about by flocks of ravens, vultures and hawks, and eaten alive. J. vi.247.
  • Kakubandhagāma. A village in Rohana. Ras.ii.188.
  • Kakubandhakandara. A stream, near Pāsānavāpigāma. Ras.i.103.
  • Kakudha
  • Kakudha Sutta
  • Kakudha Vagga. The tenth chapter of the Pańcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.118-26.
  • Kakusandha
  • Kakusandha Sutta. To Kakusandha, as to the Buddha before he was enlightened, came thoughts of the suffering in the world and of how it could be stopped. S. ii.9.
  • Kakutthā (Kakutthā, Kukutthā)
  • Kāla
  • Kāla Sutta
  • Kālabāhu Jātaka (No.329)
  • Kālabāhu. A monkey, a previous birth of Devadatta. See the Kālabāhu Jātaka. J.iii.97ff
  • Kāla-bhikkhu Sutta. See Kālaka(-bhikkhu) Sutta.
  • Kalābu
  • Kāla-Buddharakkhita
  • Kālacampā
  • Kāladāna Sutta. The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 1) for Kāla Sutta (3).
  • Kāladeva
  • Kāladevala
  • Kāladīghagāma
  • Kāladīghavāpi
  • Kāladīghāvika. A padhānaghara built by Hatthadātha. Cv.xlvi.46.
  • Kālagāma. A village in Ceylon. A minister of this village is given as an example of a man who committed suicide in remorse (vippatisārī). SnA.i.30.
  • Kālagiri, Kālāgiri. See Kālapabbata.
  • Kālagiribhanda. A district in Ceylon. The forces of Parakkamabāhu I. fought there twenty battles before it could be brought under subjection (Cv.lxxii.62). It is identified with the modern Kalugalboda-rata. Cv.Trs.i.325, n.1.
  • Kālāgiri-khana. That section of the Vidhurapandita Jātaka which ends with the bringing of Vidhura by Punnaka to the realm of the Nāgas. J. vi.314.
  • Kalahanagara. A village built on the spot where Pandukābhaya defeated the soldiers sent by the father of Suvannapālī to rescue her. Mhv.x.42; see also Mhv.Trs.71, n.1, for its identification.
  • Kālahatthi
  • Kalahavivāda Sutta
  • Kalahayinādu. A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
  • Kālaka
  • Kālaka Sutta
  • Kalakacchagāma. A village in Ceylon, near Kalyānī. At the Nāga-mahā-vihāra there the thera Maliyadeva preached the Cha-chakka Sutta; sixty monks heard it and became arahants. MA.ii.1025.
  • Kālakagāma. A village in Ceylon in which was the Mandalārāma, the residence of the Elder Mahāsona (q.v.). VibhA.448. It was evidently the same as Kallagama (q.v.).
  • Kālakańjakā
  • Kālakannī
  • Kālakannī Jātaka (No.83)
  • Kālakārāma Sutta. See Kālaka Sutta.
  • Kālakārāma
  • Kālakhemaka
  • Kālakūta. One of the five mountain ranges surrounding Anotatta. It has the colour of ańjana (collyrium). SnA.ii.437; UdA.300; AA.ii.759; MA.ii.585.
  • Kalalahallika. A village and tank near Ālisāra. There was a fortification there.. The tank was restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.48; lxx.73, 163; also Cv. Trs.i.301, n.1.
  • Kālāma
  • Kālamahī. A branch of the river Mahā-Mahī, which it later rejoins. SnA.i.27.
  • Kālamattika. A tank given by Jetthatissa for the use of the Cetiyapabbata-vihāra. Mhv.xxxvi.130.
  • Kālamattiya, Kālamattika. A forest. Mutthika, after his death, was born as a goblin in this forest, and when Baladeva reached the spot during his flight, Mutthika challenged him to a wrestling match and ate him up "like a radish-bulb." J. iv.82, 88.
  • Kalamba. A river near Anurādhapura, probably identical with Kadamba (Sp.ii.474) (q.v.). The river was to the east of Anurādhapura. MA.ii.653.
  • Kalambadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he met a Pacceka Buddha named Romasa and gave him a radish (kalamba). Ap.ii.393.
  • Kalambaka-Vihāra. A monastery built by King Saddhātissa. Mhv.Xxxvii.8.
  • Kalambatittha-Vihāra
  • Kālanadī. A river in Ceylon, the present Kaluganga. Devapatirāja built over the river a bridge of eighty-six cubits and laid out a garden of coco palms from the river to Bhīmatittha-vihāra. Cv.xlvi.40, 44.
  • Kālanāga. See Mahā-Kāla.
  • Kālanāgara. The family to which the general Parakkama belonged. Cv.lxxx.49.
  • Kalandagāma. A brahmin village in Ceylon, where King Mahāsena built a vihāra on the site of an old Hindu temple. Mhv.Xxxvii.41.
  • Kalandakagāma. A village near Vesāli; it was the birthplace of Sudinna (Vin.iii.11). Buddhaghosa (Sp.i.202) says the name was given because of the squirrels who lived there.
  • Kalandakanivāpa
  • Kalandakaputta. See Sudinna. Kalanda or Kalandaka was the name, not of his father, but of his village. Sp.i.202.
  • Kalanda-Vihāra
  • Kalanduka Jātaka (No.127)
  • Kalanduka. A servant of the Treasurer of Benares (Bārānasī-setthi). See Kalanduka Jātaka.
  • Kālapabbata
  • Kālapāsāna(-pāsāda)-parivena
  • Kālapāsāna. A tank in Ceylon; one of sixteen tanks built by King Nabāsena. Mhv..xxxvii.49.
  • Kālapilla. A locality in Rohana in Ceylon. There the troops of Parakkamabāhu I. defeated those of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.325.
  • Kalāra Sutta
  • Kālārajanaka
  • Kalārakhattiya Vagga. The fourth chapter of the Nidāna Samyutta. S. ii.47-68.
  • Kalārakkhattiya. A monk. He visits Sāriputta and tells him of Moliya-Phagguna's secession from the Order. The account of the incident is included in the Kalāra Sutta (q.v.).
  • Kalāramatthuka
  • Kālasela. A statue of the Buddha. See Silāsambuddha.
  • Kālasena
  • Kalasigāma. The birthplace of Milinda in the Island of Alasandā (or Alexandria) in the Indus (Mil..83). Rhys Davids (Mil.inda Questions, i., p.xxiii) thinks that the name is identical with that of the Greek settlement Karisi.
  • Kālasilā
  • Kālāsoka
  • Kālasumana. Thera. One of those responsible for preserving the Vinaya in Ceylon after the death of Mahinda. Vin.v.3; Sp.i.104.
  • Kālasutta. One of the principal hells (J.v.266, 267, 268). Beings born there are placed on a floor of heated iron, marked with a black thread made red hot, and then cut into pieces along the markings (J.v.270).
  • Kālatinduka Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.165.
  • Kālatittha. A locality in Rohana. There Vikkamapandu had his seat of government (Cv.lvi.12). It is identified with the modern Kalutara, at the mouth of the Kaluganga.
  • Kālāvaka. The tribe of ordinary elephants, each one of which possesses the strength of ten men. MA.i.263; UdA.403; VibhA.397; BuA.37, etc.
  • Kālavalli. A tank repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiz.36.
  • Kālavallimandapa. A vihāra in Ceylon, the residence of the Elder Mahānāga (DA.i.190, 191; SnA.i.56; VbhA.352, 353; J.iv.490; MT.606). It was near the village Nakulanagara (DhSA.339) and was situated in Rohana (AA.i.384).
  • Kālavela
  • Kālavilangika. See Mahā Kassapa.
  • Kalāyamutthi Jātaka (No.176)
  • Kālāyanakannika. A locality in Rohana. There Mahādāthika Mahānāga built two vihāras, Manināgapabbata and Kalanda. Mhv.xxxiv.89; MT.637.
  • Kālī
  • Kāli Sutta
  • Kālī Sutta. Kālī Kururaghara visits Mahā-Kaccāna and asks him for a detailed exposition of one of the stanzas in the Kumāripańhas. (The stanza occurs at S. i.126). Mahā-Kaccāna explains, and his explanation deals with the ten kasinas. A.v.46f
  • Kāli. A tank in Ceylon, built by King Vasabha (Mhv.Xxxv.95). It was among those repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.45.
  • Kāligodhā
  • Kāligotamī. See Gotamī (1).
  • Kālikā. See Kālī (9).
  • Kalikāla. A Tamil chieftain, conquered by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.214f.
  • Kalikāla-sāhicca-sabbańńupandita. A honorific ("all-knowing scholar of the Dark Age") given to Parakkamabāhu II. on account of his vast erudition. Cv.lxxxii.3.
  • Kālikarakkhiya. An ancient sage mentioned in a list of sages, together with Samudda, Bharata, Angīrasa, Kassapa, Kisavaccha and Akitti. J. vi.99.
  • Kalimbha Thera (Kalimma)
  • Kālindī. A channel in the irrigation system of Parakkamabāhu I., flowing southward from the Manihīra tank. Cv.lxxix.54.
  • Kālinga, Kalinga
  • Kālinga-bhāradvāja. The chaplain of King Kālinga. See the Kālingabodhi Jātaka. He was the Bodhisatta, and is sometimes called Kālinga-brāhmana (E.g., J. iv.235).
  • Kālingabodhi Jātaka (No.479)
  • Kalingara Sutta
  • Kālingārańńa. See Kālinga (2).
  • Kallagāma. A village in Ceylon. In the village was the Mandālārāmaka-vihāra (q.v.). AA.i.22, 52.
  • Kallakālena. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Saddhātissa. Mhv.Xxxiii.7.
  • Kallakavelāra. A Tamil chief, brother of Tondamāna's wife. He was slain by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.40, 50.
  • Kallaka-vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, near Bhokkantagāma. There Sumanā, wife of Lakuntaka Atimbam, heard the preaching of the Āsīvisopama Sutta and became an arahant. DhA.iv.51.
  • Kallara. A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.246, 259.
  • Kallavā Sutta. Of those who meditate some are clever in concentration but are not fully expert in meditation, some are the reverse, some have neither quality, while others have both. S. iii.265.
  • Kallavāla, Kanavālamutta
  • Kallita Sutta. A man may be skilled in ease in concentration, but not in the range thereof, nor in resolve, zeal, perseverance, or profit. S. iii.275.
  • Kāludāyī Thera
  • Kālūla. A monastery in Ceylon. Aggabodhi VIII, gave a village for its maintenance. Cv.xlix.47.
  • Kālūpakāla. The name of the warders in charge of a hell bearing the same name. They smite their victims with arrows and spears.
  • Kālussa. A village given by Udaya I, to the Nīlārāma (Cv.xlix.16).
  • Kalyāna (Kalyānaka)
  • Kalyānabhatta-tissa. See Ariyagāla-tissa.
  • Kalyāna-dhamma Jātaka (No.171)
  • Kalyāna-dhamma Vagga. The third chapter of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātaka. J. ii.63-86.
  • Kalyānamitta Sutta
  • Kalyānamitta Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.14f.
  • Kalyānavatī
  • Kalyānī
  • Kalyānī Sutta. No beautiful woman (janapadakalyānī) can persistently possess the heart of a man who is fond of gain, favours, and flattery. S. ii.235.
  • Kalyāni-(Kalyānika)-vihāra
  • Kalyāni-Cetiya
  • Kalyanigāma. A village, probably in or near Kalyānī; it was the residence of Mahātissa Thera. SnA.i.6.
  • Kalyānippakarana. A record of the famous Kalyāni inscriptions set up near Pegu by Dhammaceti, giving details of the consecration of the Kalyānisīmā in Pegu by the monks who received their ordination at the Kalyāni-vihāra in Ceylon. Bode, 23, 38f.; P.L.C.257f.
  • Kalyāni-Tissa. A king of Kalyānī, father of Vihāramahādevī (Mhv.Xxii.12ff). He was great-grandson of Mutasīva and grandson of Uttiya. His younger brother was called Ayya-Uttiya (MT.431).
  • Kāma Jātaka (No.467)
  • Kāma Sutta
  • Kāmabhogī Sutta
  • Kāmabhū
  • Kāmabhū Sutta
  • Kāmada
  • Kāmada Sutta. Contains the account of Kāmada's visit to the Buddha (S.i.48). It is quoted in the Nettippakarana p.148.
  • Kāmānākkotta. A fortress in South India, which was occupied by the Tamil chiefs Pandimandala, Vīraganga and Kangakonda. Cv.lxxvi.180.
  • Kāmandā
  • Kāmanīta Jātaka, (No.228)
  • Kāmanīta. The name by which the brahmin, mentioned in connection with the Kāma Jātaka, the Kāma Sutta and the Kāmanīta Jātaka, is referred to. J. ii.212.
  • Kāmasettha
  • Kāmavilāpa Jātaka (No.297)
  • Kambala. A tribe of Nāgas. They were present at the Mahāsamaya (D.ii.258), and are mentioned with the Assataras as living at the foot of Sineru (J.vi.165).
  • Kambaladāyaka-Tissa
  • Kamboja (Kambojaka)
  • Kāmboja. See Kamboja.
  • Kambugallaka. See Hambugallaka.
  • Kamma Sutta
  • Kamma Vagga. The twenty-fourth chapter of the Catukka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It contains ten suttas on various kinds of deeds, the four classes of ascetics and the blessings of a good man (A.ii.230-9). The Commentary calls it Magga-vagga.
  • Kammahārattaka. General of King Khallātanāga. He led a revolution against the king and killed him in the capital. The king's brother Vattagāmani, however, killed the general and took over the government (Mhv.Xxxiii.33; see also MT.612).
  • Kammakārana Vagga. A group of ten suttas, forming the first section of the Duka Nipāta, on various subjects, such as faults and their punishment, worldly and spiritual striving, the two things (fear and shame) which guard the world, etc. A.ii.47ff
  • Kammakathā. The seventh chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. Ps.ii.78-80.
  • Kammakkhandha. The first section of the Cullavagga of the Vinaya Pitaka (Vin.ii.1-28).
  • Kammapatha Vagga. The third chapter of the Dhātu Samyutta. S. ii.111f.
  • Kammāradeva. A locality in Anurādhapura, included in the sīmā marked out by Devānampiya-Tissa. On its left was the cemetery for the lower castes (Mbv.135; also Mhv.xv.13, see Geiger's edition, p.332).
  • Kammāragāma. A village in Rohana, identified with modern Kamburugamuva. It was one of the places passed by the Kańcukināyaka of Parakkamabāhu I, in his victorious progress (Cv.lxxv.47; Cv.Trs.ii.48, n.2).
  • Kammāsa. See Kammāsapada.
  • Kammāsadamma, Kammāsadhamma (v.l. Kammasa°)
  • Kammāsapāda
  • Kammassadhamma. See Kammāsadamma
  • Kammavācā. A compilation of the rules and the ritual regarding admission into the Sangha ( Bode: op. cit., 6f).
  • Kammavibhanga Sutta. See Cūla Kammavibhanga Sutta and Mahā Kammavibhanga Sutta.
  • Kammupelanda. See Kabupelanda.
  • Kampilla (Kampillaka, Kampilliya)
  • Kamsa
  • Kamsabhoga. A division of Uttarāpatha, its capital being Asitańjana, where Mahākamsa and his successors ruled. J.iv.79; PvA.111.
  • Kamsavamsa. The race of Mahākamsa; this race was destroyed by the sons of Devagabbhā. J. iv.79.
  • Kānā
  • Kanāda. A teacher of philosophy, mentioned with Kapila, as teaching that the soul was limitless (na antavā). UdA.339.
  • Kānagāma. A village and tank in Rohana. There Aggabodhi of Rohana built three hospitals for the blind and the sick and a large image house in the Patimā-vihāra (Cv.xlv.43). Parakkamabāhu I. repaired the tank. Cv.lxxix.35.
  • Kanakadattā. A nun, disciple of Konāgamana, who brought a branch of the Buddha's udumbara-bodhi to Ceylon. She, with her following, was left behind by the Buddha. v.l. Kantakānandā and Kandanandā. Dpv. xvii.17.
  • Kanakāgamana. See Konāgamana.
  • Kanakāgamana. See Konāgamana.
  • Kanakamuni. See Konāgamana.
  • Kanakapabbata
  • Kānamātā. A pious lay woman of Sāvatthi, mother of Kānā.
  • Kānamūla. A locality in Ceylon, near the Kālavāpi. Cv.lxxii.183.
  • Kānapaddāvuda. A locality in Ceylon. There a she-bear attacked Parakkamabāhu I. (then the Ādipāda), but was killed by him. Cv.1xvii.40.
  • Kānārittha
  • Kanasiya. A Tamil. chief, conquered by Lankāpura at Tirivekambama (Cv.lxxvi.238).
  • Kānatālavana-tittha. A ford in the Mahāvāluka-gangā, a point of strategic importance. Cv.lxxii.19.
  • Kānavāpī. A tank near the Cetiyagiri, given by Sena I. for the use of the monks there (Cv.l.72). Sena II. built a dam across it at Katthantanagara (Cv.li.73), and both Vijayabāhu I (Cv.lx.50) and Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxxix.34) restored it.
  • Kanavera Jātaka (No.318)
  • Kanaverapupphiya Thera
  • Kańcamba. A Tamil chieftain who fought against Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.17.
  • Kańcana
  • Kańcanadevī
  • Kańcanagiri. See Kańcanapabbata.
  • Kańcanaguhā
  • Kańcanakkhandha Jātaka (No. 56)
  • Kańcanamālā. Probably the name of Sakka's white parasol. It was five leagues in circumference. J. v.386.
  • Kańcanamānava. The name given to Mahā Kaccāna by his parents, Kaccāna being the family name. He was called Kańcana because his body was of a golden colour. ThagA.483; AA.i.116.
  • Kańcanapabbata
  • Kańcanapattī. The hut in the Kańcanapabbata, where lived the ascetic Jotirasa, friend of Vessavana. J. ii.399.
  • Kańcanavana. A pleasance near Ujjeni, where Mahā Kaccāna lived on his return to Ujjeni after his ordination. AA.i.118.
  • Kańcanavela. Son of Piyadassī Buddha, his mother being Vimalā (Bu.xiv.17). The Buddhavamsa Commentary (p.172) calls him Kańcana.
  • Kańcanavelu. The city in which Siddattha Buddha died, in the park Anoma (BuA.188).
  • Kāńcipura (v.l. Kāńcīpura)
  • Kańcīpura. See Kāńcipura.
  • Kandadevamālava. A Tamil chief who fought against Parakkamabāhu's general Lankāpura, and was defeated at Mundikkāra. Later, when Kandadevamālava owned allegiance to Parakkamabāhu, Lankāpura restored Mundikkāra to him and appointed him chief of the two districts of Mangala. Cv.lxxvi.187, 208, 210.
  • Kandagalaka Jātaka (No.210)
  • Kandagalaka. A bird, a former birth of Devadatta. See the Kandagalaka Jātaka.
  • Kandaka. See Kantaka.
  • Kandakā. See Kantakā.
  • Kandakī. See Kantakī.
  • Kandalīpupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he was a farmer on the banks of the Sindhū, and seeing the Buddha Siddhattha wrapt in meditation, offered him seven kandalī-flowers and paid him homage (Ap.i.257). v.l. Kadalī.
  • Kandamba. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.55, 80, 90.
  • Kandanagara. A locality in Ceylon; to the north of it was the Girinelavāhanaka Vihāra, built by Sūratissa. Mhv.xxi.8.
  • Kandanandā. See Kanakadattā.
  • Kandara Vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Thūlanātha, younger son of Saddhātissa (Mhv.Xxxiii.15). According to the Mahāvamsa Tika (p.442), the vihāra was in Rohana.
  • Kandaraggisāma. A celebrated physician, mentioned in a list of such. Mil.272.
  • Kandarājika. A village in Rājarattha in Ceylon. See Tambasumana.
  • Kandaraka Sutta
  • Kandaraka
  • Kandaramasuka. See Kalāramatthuka.
  • Kandarasāla. See Katthaka.
  • Kandarāyana
  • Kandari Jātaka (No.341)
  • Kandari. King of Benares; his story is given in the Kandari Jātaka.
  • Kandina Jātaka (No.13)
  • Kandiyūru. A Tamil chieftain and ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.140.
  • Kandula
  • Kandula. The Rasavāhinī contains a story of how he once looked after the monks of Mahānijjhara Vihāra. Ras.ii.29.
  • Kanduvethi. A city in India, the capital of Narasīha; perhaps a variant reading of Kanduvetti (Cv.xlvii.7). Hultszch says (J.R.A.S.1913, p.527) that both names are synonyms with Kādavarū, a designation of the Pallava kings.
  • Kanduvetti. A Tamil chief and vassal prince of South India, ally of Kulasekhera. Cv.lxxvii.79.
  • Kangakondakalappa. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.75.
  • Kangakondāna. A fortress in South India. Cv.lxxvi.183.
  • Kangakondapperayara. A Tamil chief, subdued by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.179.
  • Kangayara. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara; he was vanquished by Lankāpura, general of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.140, 280, 318; lxxvii.15.
  • Kanha
  • Kanhā
  • Kanha Jātaka (No.29, 440)
  • Kanhadāsa. The donor of the vihāra in Kāveripattana, where lived Buddhadatta, author of Madhuratthavilāsinī, the commentary on the Buddhavamsa. BuA.249.
  • Kanhadevala. Another name for Asita. SnA.ii.487.
  • Kanhadinna Thera
  • Kanhadīpāyana
  • Kanhadīpāyana Jātaka (No.444)
  • Kanhagangā. The name of one part of the river which flows from Anotatta. This part is sixty leagues long and flows over a rocky bed. SnA.ii.439; AA.ii.760; UdA.302; MA.ii.586, etc.
  • Kanhāgotamakā, Kanhāgotamikā. A royal family of Nāgas. A.ii.72; J. ii.145.
  • Kanhagundāvana. See Gundāvana.
  • Kanhājinā
  • Kanhamitta. The real name of the thera Valliya (q.v.) of Vesāil. v.l. Gandimitta.
  • Kanhanadī. Another name for Kālanadī, the river forming the boundary of Rohana. (Cv.liii.20; Cv.Trs.i.173, n.5)
  • Kanhapakka Vagga. The first chapter of the Mātugāma Samyutta. S. iv.238-43.
  • Kanhasiri. Another name for Asita. Sn.v.689.
  • Kanhausabha Jātaka. See Kanha Jātaka (1).
  • Kanhavāta. A locality in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.174.
  • Kanhayāna
  • Kanikāracchadaniya Thera
  • Kanikārapadhānaghara. A meditation-hall in Khandacela Vihāra, where lived Padhāniya Thera. MA.i.65.
  • Kanikārapupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he saw the Buddha Tissa and offered him a kanikāra-flower. Thirty-five kappas ago he was a king named Arunapāla (v.l. Arunabala) (Ap.i.203). He is probably identical with Ujjaya Thera. ThagA.i.118f.
  • Kanikāravālikasamudda Vihāra. The residence of the Thera Sāketa-Tissa, during a whole rainy season. AA.i.44; MA.i.350; DA.iii.1061.
  • Kanikāra-Vimāna. A palace in Tāvatimsa, sixty leagues high and thirty broad, which Uttara Thera occupied as a result of having, in a previous birth, offered a kanikāra-flower to Sumedha Buddha. ThagA.i.241.
  • Kanirajānu Tissa
  • Kanira-pabbhāra. A cave, probably in the side of the Cetiyagiri, into which King Kanirajānu Tissa ordered sixty monks to be flung, they having been found guilty of high treason (Mhv.Xxxv.11).
  • Kaniska
  • Kanittha-Tissa, Kanittha-Tissaka
  • Kanjin.
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  • Kankhā-Revata Thera
  • Kankhāvitaranī
  • Kankheyya Sutta
  • Kannagoccha, Kannagotta. See Kannakujja.
  • Kannakatthala Sutta
  • Kannakatthala. A deer-park in Ujuńńā. There the Buddha sometimes stayed; he was once visited there by Acela Kassapa, to whom he preached the Kassapasīhanāda Sutta (D.i.161), and again by Pasenadi, king of Kosala; to him he preached the Kannakatthala Sutta. M.ii.125.
  • Kannakujja
  • Kannamunda, Kannakatthala. See Kannnamunda, etc.
  • Kannamunda, Kannamundaka
  • Kannapennā
  • Kannāta. The name given in the Cūlavamsa to the Kanarese of South India. They are often mentioned as mercenary soldiers in Ceylon. E.g., Cv.lv.12; lx.24, 26; lxx.230.
  • Kannāvadhamāna. A mountain in Ceylon, the residence of the Nāga-king, father of Cūlodara and brother-in-law of Mahodara. Mhv.i.49; but see my edition of the Mahāvamsa-Tīkā, where I take the name of the mountain to be Vaddhamāna.
  • Kannikāragalla. A tank in Ceylon, restored by Gajabāhu. Cv.lxviii.45.
  • Kantaka (v.l. Kandaka)
  • Kantakā (v.l. Kandakā). A nun who was guilty of unchastity with the novice Kantaka (Vin.i.85).
  • Kantaka Sutta.
  • Kantaka-cetiya. A building on the Cetiyapabbata. Near it were many rock cells, sixty-eight of which were built by Devānampiya-Tissa (Mhv.Xvi.12). Can this be the same as Kantaka-cetiya (q.v.)? See also Katthaka.
  • Kantakacetiya. A cetiya on Cetiyapabbata. Here Kāla-Buddharakkhita Thera (q.v.) preached the Kālakārāma Sutta (MA.i.469f). See also Katthaka and Kantaka.
  • Kantakadvāravāta. A village in Rohana where the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. inflicted a severe defeat on their enemies (Cv.lxxiv.85). It is identified with the modern Katupelella. Cv.Trs.ii.29, n.3.
  • Kantakānandā. See Kanakadattā.
  • Kantakapetaka. A district on the frontier of the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, probably to the east or north-east of Matale (Cv.lxix.10; Cv.Trs.283, n.2).
  • Kantakavana. A locality in Rohana where the general Rakkha built a stronghold and attacked the enemy forces. Cv.lxxiv.56.
  • Kantakī Sutta
  • Kantakīvana
  • Kanthaka (v.l. Kannthaka)
  • Kanthaka. See Kanthaka.
  • Kanthakanivatta-cetiya. See Kanthaka.
  • Kanthakasāla-parivena. See Kanthaka.
  • Kanthapitthi. An important village, among those given by Aggabodhi IX. to a number of small vihāras in order that the monks of these vihāras could obtain rice-gruel without going, as formerly, to the Mahāvihāra. Cv.xlix.89.
  • Kapālanāga. A vihāra built by Dāthā, wife of Aggabodhi II. Cv.xlii.65.
  • Kapallakkhanda. A locality in Ceylon on the field of Hankārapitthi. Here was fought a fierce battle between Ilanāga and the Lambakannas, in which the latter were slain in large numbers (Mhv.Xxxv.34).
  • Kapallapūva
  • Kāpathika (v.l. Kāpatika)
  • Kapi Jātaka (No.250, 404)
  • Kāpi. Son of Kotūhalaka and his wife Kālī. When his parents fled from Ajītarattha to Kosambī from fear of the plague, they, being starved, found it very difficult to carry the child. Seven times the father tried to abandon the child, but the mother prevented him. DhA.i.169f
  • Kapila
  • Kapila Sutta. Preached by the Buddha to the people assembled to hear his explanation of the golden colour of the fish, Kapila-maccha (see Kapila 4) (SnA.i.305f; DhA.iv.42: UdA.180; ThagA.i.356). The Sutta Nipāta calls it Dhammacariya Sutta.
  • Kapila-maccha Vatthu. The story of Kapila-maccha. DhA.iv.37ff
  • Kapila-maccha. See Kapila (4).
  • Kapila-nagara. See Kapila (6).
  • Kāpilānī-See Bhaddā Kāpīlānī.
  • Kapilapura. See Kapilavatthu.
  • Kapilavatthu
  • Kapila-vihāra. See Kapila 12.
  • Kapinaccanā
  • Kapisīsa
  • Kapittha. A village near Cittalapabbata-vihāra, the residence of Phussadeva (v.l. Gavita). Mhv.xxiii.82.
  • Kapitthaphaladāyaka Thera
  • Kapitthavana
  • Kapīvantā. A city to the north of Uttarakuru. D.iii.201.
  • Kapota Jātaka (No.42, 375)
  • Kapotakandara
  • Kappa
  • Kappa Sutta
  • Kappagallaka. A village in Rohana where Mahinda V. founded a town which, for some time, was the seat of his government (Cv.lv.11).
  • Kappaka. See Kappa (4).
  • Kappakagāma (Kappukagāma). A vihāra in Ceylon, the residence of the thera Deva. It was from him that King Vohārika-Tissa heard the Doctrine and, as a mark of favour, the king restored five buildings belonging to the Kappakagāma monastery (Mhv.Xxxvi.29).
  • Kappakandara (v.l. Kappukandara)
  • Kapparukkhiya Thera
  • Kappāsagāma. A village in Ceylon. There Kittī, queen consort of Mahinda IV., built a bathing tank for the monks. Cv.liv.51.
  • Kappāsika (Kappāsiya)-Vanasanda
  • Kappata
  • Kappatakura Thera
  • Kappāyana. A name of Nigrodha-Kappa (Sn.v.354); given out of respect for him, says the Commentary. SnA.i.350.
  • Kappina Sutta
  • Kappina. See Mahā-Kappina.
  • Kappińcimpekula. A Tamil chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvii.79.
  • Kappitaka Thera
  • Kappuka°. See Kappaka°.
  • Kappūramūlāyatana. This probably refers to the Kappūra-parivena (Geiger: Cv.Trs.i.222, n.7). Yasodharā, daughter of Vijayabāhu I., built there a large and beautiful image house. Cv.lx.83.
  • Kappūra-parivena. A building in the Abhayagiri-vihāra, erected by Dāthopatissa II. (Cv.xlv.29). Later, Aggabodhi II. built a pāsāda there (Cv.xlvi.21), and Sena I. erected a pariccheda (probably rows of single cells). (Cv.l.77) (See also Kappfirar muliyatana).
  • Kapulpelanda. See Kabupelanda.
  • Kāradīpa. An island in the Tamil country, near Nāgadīpa. Its original name was Ahidīpa. Akitti took up his residence there and lived on the leaves and fruits of the kāra-tree which grew there. On account of this the island came by its new name. J.iv.238.
  • Kāragangā
  • Karajakāya Vagga. The twenty-first chapter of the Dasaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. It contains suttas on ten conditions which lead beings to hell, the ten conditions which give a lay-woman confidence in her house, etc. (A.v.283-303)
  • Kāraka. A village in Ceylon, near Serisara. Ras.ii.183.
  • Karakanda, Karakandaka
  • Kārakapupphamańjarī. A work on Pāli grammar, written by Attaragama Bandāra-Rājaguru in the eighteenth century, dealing with kāraka or case-relations - i.e., syntax. P.L.C.283.
  • Kāraliyagiri. A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of a thera named Nāga, who taught the monks the Dhātukathā after having given up the study of the scriptures for eighteen years. Vsm.i.96.
  • Karamba. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.139.
  • Kārambhiya 1.See Kāranvī below.
  • Kārambhiya 2.See Karambiya.
  • Karambiya
  • Kāranapālī
  • Kāranapālī Sutta. Records the meeting mentioned above of Kāranapālī with Pingiyānī. A.iii.236-9.
  • Karandaka
  • Karandaka Jātaka. See Samugga Jātaka.
  • Kārandava Sutta
  • Kārandiya (Kārandiya). A brahmin student, the Bodhisatta. His story is given in the Kārandiya Jātaka.
  • Kārandiya Jātaka (No.356)
  • Karandu (v.l. Karakanda, Karandaka, Karakandaka)
  • Karanīyametta Sutta. See Metta Sutta.
  • Karanīyavimāna
  • Kāranvī. A wood in which the Elder Cittaka sojourned for some time (Thag.v.22). The Commentary suggests (ThagA.ii.78) that kāram is the name of a tree and that from this tree the wood was named. v.l. Kārambhiya.
  • Kārapitthi. A village in Ceylon. Moggallāna III. built there the Mogallāna-vihāra. Cv.xliv.50.
  • Karatiya. A Yakkha, mentioned in the Ātānātiya Sutta as being one of the chief Yakkhas who should be invoked by followers of the Buddha when they need protection. D.iii.204.
  • Karavālagiri. A locality in Ceylon where once Parakkamabāhu I. set up his camp. Cv.lxxii.134.
  • Karavīka
  • Karavitthavilatta. A tank in Ceylon. It was restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.48.
  • Kārāyana. See Dīgha-kārāyana.
  • Karerikutikā
  • Karerimandalamālā
  • Kārikā. A grammatical work in Pall, written by the Elder Dhammasenāpati at the Ananda-vihāra in Pagan. A tika on the work is ascribed to the same author. Gv. p.63, 73; Bode, op. cit., 16 and n.1.
  • Karindaka. A mountain, headquarters of Dāthāpabhuti in his fight against Moggallāna. Cv.xli.45.
  • Karinda-nadī.A river in South Ceylon. Near its source was the Panjalipabbata. Mhv..xxiii.14; also Mhv..Trs.221, n.1.
  • Karoti
  • Karoto Sutta. Discussion of the view that there is neither merit nor demerit in any kind of action whatsoever, whether good or bad (S.iii.208). The reference is evidently to the heresy of Pūrana Kassapa (C.p. D.i.52).
  • Karumbūlatta, Kurummalatta. A Tamil chief, ally of Kulasekhara. He was subdued by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.139, 216.
  • Karumhā. A class of spirits, present at the Mahāsamaya. D.ii.260.
  • Karunā Sutta. The idea of karunā (pity), if cultivated, is very fruitful. S. v.131.
  • Kārusā. Mentioned with the Bhaggas in a list of tribes. Ap.ii.359.
  • Kāsagalla. A monastery which was repaired by Vijayabāhu I. v.l. Kāyagalla. Cv.lx.61.
  • Kasagāma. A village in Ceylon, given to the Moraparivena by Dāthopatissa II. Cv.xlv.28.
  • Kasālla. A tank in South Ceylon repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxviii.48) A fortress of this name is also mentioned, where Gokanna was defeated (Cv.lxx.72).
  • Kāsapabbata. A mountain in Ceylon, once the headquarters of Pandukābhaya (Mhv.X.27). It lay on the way from Vijitapura to Anurādhapura. Dutthagāmanī encamped there and constructed a tank near by. Mhv.xxv.50; see also Mhv.Trs.70 n.
  • Kāsāva Jātaka (No.221)
  • Kāsāva Vagga. The eighth section of the Duka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J. ii.196-221.
  • Kāsaya. Inhabitant of Kāsi (J.ii.402). Cf. Kāsiyo.
  • Kāsi (Kāsika)
  • Kasī Bhāradvāja Sutta
  • Kasī Sutta. See Kasī-Bhāradvāja.
  • Kasī-Bhāradvāja
  • Kāsigāma, Kāsinigama
  • Kāsika. A city. Sixty-five kappas ago the Thera Bodhighariya lived there as cakkavatti. The city was built by Vissakamma and was ten leagues in length and eight in width. It was built entirely of precious metals. The king's palace was called Mangala. Ap.ii.401.
  • Kāsika. The name of a tribe; probably the inhabitants of Kāsi. Ap.ii.359.
  • Kāsikhanda. A district in Ceylon; in it was the Mahādevarattakurara-vihāra. Cv.xli.101.
  • Kasina Sutta. The ten spheres of kasina (kasināyatanāni) - e.g., pathavi, Āpo, tejo, etc. (A.v.46)
  • Kāsipura. See Kāsi (2).
  • Kāsiyo. The inhabitants of Kāsi. J.v.377, etc.
  • Kasmīra
  • Kāsmīra. See Kasmīra.
  • Kassaka Sutta
  • Kassakagiri. See Kassapagiri.
  • Kassakalena. A cave (probably in Ceylon), which was the residence of the Elder Mahāmitta (q.v.). VibhA.279f.; SA.iii.136f.
  • Kassapa
  • Kassapa Samyutta
  • Kassapa Sutta
  • Kassapagiri
  • Kassapagotta
  • Kassapagotta or Cheta Sutta. Relates the story of the attempt made by Kassapagotta (4) to convert a huntsman. S.i.198f
  • Kassapakārāma (Kassapārāma)
  • Kassapamandiya Jātaka (No.312)
  • Kassapapāsāda. A building attached to the Abhayagiri-vihāra and erected by Kassapa IV. A village was made over for its maintenance (Cv.lii.13). It is identified with the "Kasub-vad-mahapahā" mentioned in an inscription of Mahinda IV. in the Jetavanārāma. Ep.Zey.i.216.
  • Kassaparājaka. A monastery begun by a young prince, called Kassapa, in the time of King Dappula and finished by Sena I (Cv.l.81). An inscription (Ep.Zey.i.42ff) mentions that a "Kasubraja-vehara" (probably the same as the above), was restored by Kassapa V.
  • Kassapasena. A monastery built by the Senāpati of Kassapa IV. It was given to the Sāgalikas (Cv.lii.17). It was restored by Kassapa V. (Ep.Zey.ii.40).
  • Kassapasīhanāda Sutta
  • Kassapa-vihāra. A monastery to which Dāthopatissa II. gave the village of Senāmagāma (Cv.xlv.27). This monastery is probably to be identified with Kassapagiri-vihāra.
  • Kassapiyā, Kassapikā
  • Kassipitthika-vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, built by King Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.49.
  • Kāsumāriphalakadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he gave a kāsumāri-fruit to the Buddha (Ap.i.294). He is probably to be identified with Sīvaka Sāmanera (ThagA.ii.61).
  • Kāsumāriphaliya Thera. An arahant. The verses attributed to him are the same as those of Kāsumāriphaladāyaka. He is probably to be identified with Jotidāsa Thera (Ap.ii.445).
  • Katacchubhikkhadāyikā Therī
  • Katadorāvāda (?). A village in Rohana in South Ceylon (Cv.lxxiv.164). It may be the same as Kantakadvāravāta. Geiger, Cv.Trs.ii.36, n.3.
  • Katagāma. A village in which the Ādipāda Vikkamabāhu defeated Jayabāhu and his brothers. Cv.lxi.16.
  • Katāhaka Jātaka (No.125)
  • Katāhaka. The son of a female slave of the Bodhisatta when he was a rich treasurer in Benares. For his story, see the Katāhaka Jātaka.
  • Kataka. A village in Ceylon granted by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the padhanāghara, which he built for the Elder Dāthāsiva. Cv.xlvi.12.
  • Katakandhakāra
  • Katamorakatissa (Katamorakatissaka)
  • Katandhakāra. See Katakandhakāra.
  • Katattha. One of the Yakkhas who guarded Jotika's palace. He was at the sixth gate and had six thousand Yakkhas with him. DhA.iv.209.
  • Kathā Sutta
  • Kathāvatthu
  • Kathāvatthu Sutta
  • Kathāvivarana. A book mentioned in the Gandhavamsa (p.65).
  • Kathika Sutta. The true preacher is one who preaches revulsion from the body, its fading away and its cessation. S.iii.163.
  • Kathina Vagga 1. The first section of the Mahā Vibhanga of the Parivārapāthā. Vin.v.1-10.
  • Kathina Vagga 2. The first section of the Nissagiya. Vin.iii.195-223.
  • Kathinakkhandha. The seventh chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.i.253-67.
  • Kati chinde Sutta. Preached in answer to a deva's question as to how many bonds an arahant should cut. Five, says the Buddha. S. i.3.
  • Katissabha
  • Katissaha
  • Kativāpi. One of the tanks repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.34.
  • Katiyāgāma. A village in Ceylon where Gajabāhu's officers slew large numbers of his enemies (Cv.lxx.67).
  • Kātiyāna
  • Kātiyānī (v.l. Kaccānī)
  • Kattala. A village in South India belonging to Tondamāna. Cv.lxxvii.51.
  • Kattha Sutta. On the five evil results of not using a toothbrush, and the five advantages of using one. A.iii.250.
  • Katthahāla-parivena. A monastic residence in or near Anurādhapura. A monk from Piyangalla, who was asked to participate in the building of the Mahā Thūpa, stayed in the parivena during his visit to Anurādhapura. Mhv.xxx.34.
  • Katthahāra Sutta
  • Katthahāra-Bhāradvāja. See Katthahāra Sutta.
  • Katthahāri Jātaka (No.7)
  • Katthaka Cetiya
  • Katthakā A class of devas present at the Mahāsamaya (D.ii.261). v.l. Kathakā.
  • Katthakasāla. See Katthaka Cetiya.
  • Katthantanagara. A town near the Kānavāpi tank. It was here that King Sena II. had the dam of the tank repaired. Cv.li.73.
  • Katthavāhana
  • Katthavāhananagara. The city of king Katthavāhana (1) (SnA.ii.576). It was one whole day's journey from Benares and twenty yojanas from Sāvatthi (SnA.ii.579).
  • Katthī Sutta. Preached to the monks at Sahajātī by Mahā-Cunda. It deals with ten qualities of which a monk should rid himself if he is to increase and prosper in the dhammavinaya. A.v.157ff
  • Kattikā
  • Kattikapabbata. A village in Rohana given by Dappula I. to the Tissavihāra. Cv.xlv.59.
  • Katunnarū. A tank in South Ceylon repaired by Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.48) and again by Parakkamabāhu I. before his ascent to the throne. Cv.lxviii.46.
  • Katuvandu. A locality near Anurādhapura (Cv.lxxii.188).
  • Katuviya Sutta
  • Kāveri
  • Kavi Sutta
  • Kāvinda
  • Kāvīra. A seaport in the Tamil country. Akitti lived in a park near by (J.iv.238). Sumanā, wife of Lakuntaka Atimbara, was once born in Kāvīra in a mariner's family. DhA.iv.50.
  • Kavisīsa. See Kapisīsa.
  • Kāya Sutta
  • Kāyaduccarita Sutta. On the five evil results of wickedness in bodily action. A.iii.267.
  • Kāyagalla. See Kāsagalla above.
  • Kāyagatāsati Sutta
  • Kayanibbinda Jātaka. See Kāyavicchinda.
  • Kāyasakkhi Sutta
  • Kāyasatti. A Thera, incumbent of the Vijayabāhu-parivena. King Parakkamabāhu IV. built for him a two-storied pasāda of great splendour and gave him the village of Sālaggāma. Cv.xc.91f
  • Kāyavicchandanaka Sutta.Another name for the Vijaya Sutta of the Sutta Nipāta. SnA.i.241.
  • Kāyavicchinda Jātaka (No.293)
  • Kayavikkaya Sutta. Few are they who abstain from buying and selling, more numerous they who do not (S.v.473).
  • Kāyaviratigāthā
  • Kebukā
  • Kehāla. See Kohāla.
  • Kehella. A village in Ceylon, the revenue from which Aggabodhi III. gave to the padhānaghara called Mahallarāja. Cv.xliv.120.
  • Keheta. A village in Ceylon, given by Jetthatissa III. for the maintenance of the Gangāmāti-vihāra. Cv.xliv.99.
  • Keka. A kingdom in Mahimsakarattha. Ajjuna Sahassabāhu once ruled there. v.l. Kekaka (J.v.145).
  • Kekaka. A city, regarded in ancient times as one of the three chief cities of Jambudīpa, the others being Uttarapańcāla and Indapatta. J. ii.213.
  • Kekakā. The people of Kekaka. J. ii.214; v.267, 273; vi.280, 281.
  • Kekarājā. The king of Kekaka. J. vi.280, 281.
  • Kekaya. Another name for Keka and Kekaka. J. ii.214.
  • Kekkhārupupphiya. See Kakkāru.
  • Kelāsa
  • Kelavāhā. See Telavāhā.
  • Kelisīla Jātaka (No.202)
  • Kelivāta. A district or village in Ceylon. Aggabodhi I. built there the Sumanapabbata-vihāra. Cv.xlii.19.
  • Keliya-tissa. See Ariyagāla-tissa.
  • Keniya (v.l. Kenniya)
  • Keralā
  • Kerala. A country in South India, along the Malabar coast. See Keralā.
  • Keralasīhamuttara. A Tamil chief, an ally of Kulasekhara (Cv.lxxvi.141). He later formed a friendship with Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.7.
  • Kesa. See Kesi.
  • Kesadhātu
  • Kesadhātuvamsa
  • Kesakambala Sutta
  • Kesakambala. See Ajita Kesakambala.
  • Kesakārī
  • Kesaputta. A township of the Kosalans and the residence of the Kālāmas. The Buddha once stayed there, on which occasion he preached the Kesaputtiya Sutta. A.i.188.
  • Kesaputtiya Sutta
  • Kesaputtiyā. The people of Kesaputta - the Kālāmas (A.i.188). It is suggested that they may be identical with the Kesins of the Satapatha Brāhman. Law: Geog. p.30 n.; PHAI.118.
  • Kesārāma. A park in the city of Sīlavatī. The Buddha Dhammadassī died there. Bu.xvi.25; BuA.185.
  • Kesarapupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a vijjādhara in Himavā, and having seen the Buddha Vessabhū, gave him three kesara-flowers. Ap.i.187.
  • Kesava
  • Kesava Jātaka (No.346)
  • Kesi (Vagga/Sutta)
  • Kesī. See Kesinī below.
  • Kesinī 1.One of the wives of Ekarāja. J. vi.134.
  • Kesinī 2.Mother of Buddhaghosa (Buddhaghosuppatti, p.38). The Sāsanavamsa (p.29) calls her Kesī.
  • Ketakapupphiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vipassī (?) on the banks of the Vinatā and gave him a ketaka-flower (Ap.ii.449f). His stanzas are given in the Theragāthā Commentary under two names: Abhaya and Kappatakura.
  • Ketakavana. A forest near Nalakapāna in Kosala. There the Buddha preached the Nalapāna Jātaka. J.i.170.
  • Ketumā. A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in a list of their names. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
  • Ketumatī
  • Ketumbarāga. The name of a Pacceka Buddha (M.iii.70; Ap.i.107).
  • Kevatta (v.l. Kevaddha)
  • Kevatta (v.l. Kevaddha) Sutta
  • Kevattadvāra. One of the gates of Benares. The village near it bore the same name and was the residence of Lakhumā. VvA.97f.
  • Kevattagambhīra. A village in Rohana, given by Dappula to the Nāga-vihāra. Cv.xlv.58.
  • Kevatta-Nanda. One of the Nava-Nandā.
  • Khadira Sutta. It is just as impossible to destroy dukkha without realising the Four Noble Truths as it is to make a leaf-basket of acacia leaves, etc., or to fetch water in such a basket, or to use the leaves for a fan. S. v.438.
  • Khadirangani. A village in Ceylon. Kitti (afterwards Vijayabāhu I.) once occupied a stronghold in the village and fought a successful battle near by. Cv.lvii.72; lviii.36.
  • Khadirangāra Jātaka (No.40)
  • Khadirāvali Vihāra. A monastery in Rohana. Dappula I, built it and offered it to the presiding deity of the place (probably Skanda). Cv.xlv.55; see also Cv. Trs.i.94, n.3.
  • Khadiravaniya. The name of the Bodhisatta when he was once born as a bird in a khadira-wood. See the Kandagalaka Jātaka. J. ii.162f.
  • Khadiravaniya-Revata. See Revata.
  • Khaggavisāna Sutta
  • Khajjakadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he gave a ripe panasa-fruit, with a coconut, to the Buddha Tissa; and thirteen kappas ago he was a king named Indasoma (Ap.i.182). He is probably identical with Setuccha Thera. ThagA.i.206f.
  • Khajjanīya Sutta
  • Khajjanīya Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Khandha Samyutta of the Samyutta Nikāya. S. iii.81-105.
  • Khajjanīya-pariyāya. See Khajjanīya Sutta.
  • Khajjopanaka Jātaka (No.364). See Khajjopanaka-Pańha.
  • Khajjopanaka-Pańha
  • Khajjotanadī. A river in Ceylon, tributary of the Mahāvāluka-nadī. Over it Devappatirāja built a bridge of thirty cubits. Cv.lxxxvi.22; see also Cv. Trs.ii.173, n.3.
  • Khajjūrakavaddhamāna. A tank in Ceylon. Cv.lxvii.39.
  • Khalātiya Petavatthu
  • Khallātanāga
  • Khaluggata. See Baluggata.
  • Khalunka Sutta 1. The eight defects of a horse and the corresponding eight defects of a man. A.iv.190f.
  • Khalunka Sutta 2. Three groups of three classes of horses and the corresponding three classes of men. A.iv.397f.
  • Khalupaccha Sutta. On the five kinds of monks found among those who refuse food offered them after the normal time ("Khalupacchā-bhattikā"). A.iii.220.
  • Khamā Sutta 1. The four modes of progress (patipadā); that which is impatient, that which is patient, that which tames, and that which calms. A.ii.152f.
  • Khamā Sutta 2. Similar to the above, but the practice of the patipadā is differently illustrated. A.ii.153f.
  • Khambhakata Vagga. The Third Section of the Sekhiyā of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.iv.188-91.
  • Khanda
  • Khandacela
  • Khandadeva
  • Khandadeviyāputta
  • Khandahāla Jātaka (No.542)
  • Khandahāla. A brahmin; a former birth of Devadatta. See the Khandahāla Jātaka.
  • Khandakavitthika. A village in Ceylon. The birthplace of Sūranimila (Mhv.Xxiii.19).
  • Khandaphulliya Thera
  • Khandarāja. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Upatissa II.  Cv.xxxvii.186.
  • Khandasīmā. A sacred space in Pulatthipura included in the sīmā marked out for the Sangha by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.68; see also Cv. Trs.ii. 110, n.5.
  • Khandasumana Thera
  • Khandavagga. A district in Rohana. The forces of the enemies of Parakkamabāhu I, once encamped there. Cv.1xxv.119-23.
  • Khandha Paritta/Vagga/Samyutta
  • Khandha Sutta
  • Khandhā Sutta 1. The five khandhas and the five upādānakkhandhas. S.iii.47.
  • Khandhā Sutta 2.It is for the full comprehension of the five upādānakkhandhas that the Noble Eightfold Path should be followed. S. v.60.
  • Khandhaka Thūpa. A cetiya (probably in the Cetiyapabbata). King Lańjaka Tissa caused a mantling of stone to be made for it. Mhv.xxxiii.25. v.l. Katthaka, Kanthaka Thūpa, Kantaka Thūpa. See also Katthaka.
  • Khandhakā
  • Khandhapura. The Pāli name for Myein Zaing in Burma ( Bode, op. cit., 40).
  • Khandhāvara. The family name of Ayasmanta (Cv.lxxx.37). They were worshippers of the god Skanda, and were an offshoot of the Moriyavamsa. According to the colophon of the Sinhalese poem, Sālalihinisandesa.
  • Khandhavatta Jātaka (No.203)
  • Khandhena Sutta
  • Khandigāma. A village in Ceylon. It contained a narrow pass where a battle took place between Gajabāhu and Lankāpura, in which the former was defeated. Later, the Adhikārin Nātha suffered defeat in the same place. Cv.lxx.216-81, 298; see also Cv. Trs.i.305, n.6.
  • Khańjadeva
  • Khanti Sutta. See Vepacitti Sutta.
  • Khantikakhipa. See Nāgita (2).
  • Khantivādī Jātaka (No.313)
  • Khantivādī. The title of the ascetic of the Khantivādī Jātaka.
  • Khantivanna Jātaka (No.225)
  • Khānu 1. A Tamil general whom Dutthagāmani conquered in his campaign. His stronghold was at Khānugāma. Mhv.xxv.14.
  • Khānu 2. A tank, probably at Khānugāma, built by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.47.
  • Khānu Kondańńa
  • Khānumata
  • Khara
  • Kharadāthika
  • Kharādiya Jātaka (No.15)
  • Kharādiyā. See the Kharādiya Jātaka.
  • Kharaputta Jātaka (No.386)
  • Kharassara Jātaka (No.79)
  • Khārodakā. A river in Avīci, flowing alongside the Asipattavana. M.iii.185; SnA.ii.479.
  • Khata Sutta
  • Khattiya Sutta
  • Khattiyānī or Velāmikā. Chief of the eighty-four thousand women who waited on the Bodhisatta when he was once a mighty king Mahāsudassana of Kusāvatī. S. iii.146; but see D.ii.188.
  • Khaya Sutta
  • Khema
  • Khemā
  • Khema Sutta
  • Khema Vagga. The sixth chapter of the Navaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iv.455f.
  • Khemābhirata. A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a nominal list (M.iii.70).
  • Khemaka
  • Khemankara
  • Khemappakarana
  • Khemārāma. A locality in Ceylon. Here Dutthagāmani, having vanquished eleven Tamil chiefs, distributed among his troops the booty rescued from them - hence the name (Mhv.Xxv.10; MT.474).
  • Khemātherī Sutta. Records the story of the visit of Pasenadi to Khemā (S.iv.374ff). See Khemā (1).
  • Khemavatī
  • Khemī. A pond, probably identical with Khema (8) (J.v.374).
  • Khemiyā. A class of gods, present at the preaching of the Mahā Samaya Sutta (D.ii.261).
  • Khemiyambavana. A mango grove near Benares. Udena once stayed there and preached the Ghotamukha Sutta. M.ii.157.
  • Khetta Sutta 1. The eight qualities of a bad field in which to sow grain and the corresponding qualities of a good field. Similarly with the recipients of gifts. A.iv.237f.
  • Khetta Sutta 2.Few abstain from accepting fields; many do not. S. v.473.
  • Khettūpama-peta Vatthu. The first story of the Peta Vatthu. Pv.i.1.
  • Khiddāpadosikā
  • Khila Sutta
  • Khīlā Sutta. The three mental obstructions - lust, hatred, and illusion - to the comprehension of the Noble Eightfold Path (S.v.57).
  • Khira Sutta. Preached at Sāvatthi. Incalculable is the beginning of samsāra. The milk drunk by a being during his wanderings in samsāra is more in quantity than the water of the four seas. S. ii.180.
  • Khīrabhatta-tissa.- See Ariyagāla-tissa.
  • Khīragāma
  • Khīrarukkha Sutta. Where lust, malice, and infatuation exist in a man, even trifling objects, cognisable by the senses, find their way into the mind, just as, in a sap-tree, sap flows out wherever man cuts it with an axe (S.iv.159f).
  • Khīravāpikagāma. A village in Ceylon, near the district of Ambavana (Cv.lxvi.85).
  • Khitaka Thera
  • Kholakkhiya. An image of the Buddha in Ceylon. King Udaya I. gave for its maintenance the village of Mahāmaga. Cv.xlix.14.
  • Khomadāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a merchant in Bandhumatī and, having seen Vipassī Buddha in the street, gave him a linen cloth (khoma). Twenty-seven kappas ago he was a king named Sindhavasandana. Ap.i.80f.
  • Khomadussa
  • Khomadussa Sutta
  • Khomadussaka. An inhabitant of Khomadussa. S. i.184.
  • Khudda-Aggabodhi. The name given to Aggabodhi II (Cv.xlii.40; xliv.2). He was also called Khuddarājā (Cv.xliv.138). See Aggabodhi (3).
  • Khuddaka Nikāya
  • Khuddaka Tissa (Khudda Tissa)
  • Khuddakā. Name of a tribe. Ap.ii.359.
  • Khuddaka. The name given to the section on Pācittiya which occurs in the Sutta Vibhanga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.iv.174, 345.
  • Khuddakańcakunda. A Tamil chief, generally referred to as Culla-kańcakunda. Cv.lxxvi.170.
  • Khuddakapātha
  • Khuddakavatthu-Khandhaka. The fifth chapter of the Culla Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.ii.105-43.
  • Khuddapārinda. A Tamil usurper. He was the brother of Parinda who had usurped Dhātusena's throne. He reigned for sixteen years (b