Pali Proper Names - K -

• Kubbikāla.-See Kupikala.
• Kubbugāma.-See Kumbugāma.
• Kubera.-See Kuvera.
• Kubukandanadī.-A river in Ceylon. On its banks was the Samudda-vihāra (Mhv.xxxiv.90).
• Kubūlagalla.-A locality in Rohana. It was one of the strongholds captured by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lviii.36.
• Kuddadhāna.-See Kundadhāna.
• Kuddāla (Kuddālaka)-pandita
• Kuddāla Jātaka (No.70)
• Kuddālamandala.-A village in Rohana. Here a battle took place between the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. and his enemies (Cv.lxxv.16).
• Kuddarajja.-Probably a district in Rohana. See also Mahāvāpi Vihāva.
• Kuddavātakapāsāna.-A rock in Pāsānatittha (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 Jātaka (No.89)
• Kuhaka Sutta.-Five qualities, such as deceitfulness, which make a monk disagreeable to his fellow monks. A.iii.111f.
• Kuhakābrāhmana Vatthu
• Kujjatissa Thera
• Kukku Jātaka (No.396)
• Kukku Vagga.-The first section of the Sutta Nipāta of the Jātaka 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 Jātaka (No 22)
• Kukkura.-A rock near Himavā. The Buddha Vipassī once visited it, and Pupphathūpiya lived there in a previous birth (Ap.i.158).
• Kukkuravatika Sutta
• Kukkurovāda.-See Kukkura Jātaka (1).
• Kukkuta
• Kukkuta Jātaka (No.383, 448)
• Kukkutagiri.-A place in Ceylon. Buddhaghosa says (SA.iii.50) that it was so called because it was there that Saddhātissa’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
• Kukkutandakhādikā Vatthu
• Kukkutārāma
• Kukkutārāma Sutta.-Three suttas which contain discussions between Ananda and Bhadda, at the Kukkutārāma in Pātaliputta, regarding the righteous life (S.v.15f).
• Kukkutasūkara Sutta.-Few abstain from accepting fowls and swine, many do not. S.v.472.
• Kukkutavatī
• Kukkutika.-See Gokulika.
• Kukkuttha.-See Kakudha (5).
• Kukkutthā.-See Kakutthā.
• Kukutthā.-A river; see Kakutthā.
• Kula Sutta
• Kula Thera.-See Kundala.
• Kulaghara.-See Kuraraghara.
• Kulagharanī Sutta.-See Ogālha Sutta.
• Kulālitissa.-A monastery in Ceylon. Over the thūpa in the monastery King Vohārika-Tissa erected a parasol. Mhv.xxxvi.33.
• Kulanta-vāpi (Kulattha-vāpi).-A tank to the south of Anurādhapura. In the battle between the forces of Dutthagāmanī and Elāra 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-dukkhā 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 (Mahā?) Kassapa. J.v.185, 192.
• Kulāvaka Jātaka (No.31)
• Kulāvaka Sutta.-The story of Sakka's flight from the Asuras. When he saw the Garulas crushed under his chariot wheels, he asked his driver, Mātali, to turn back and risk death at the hands of the Asuras. But the Asuras fled (S.i.224). cp. Kulāvaka Jātaka.
• Kulāvaka Vagga.-The fourth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātaka 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-kannikā.-A district in Ceylon; the birthplace of Mahā Sona (Mhv.xxiii.45). According to the Mahāvamsa Commentary it was in Rohana. MT.45.
• Kulupaka Sutta
• Kumā
• Kumāputta.-See Nanda Kumāputta. Mhv.v.212.
• Kumāputtasahāya.-See Sudatta (11).
• Kumāra 1.-Father of Bhārana. He lived in Kappakandara. Mhv.xxiii.64.
• Kumāra 2.-Name of the god Skanda. He rode on a peacock. It is said that Kumāra gave a boon to Mānavamma. Cv.lvii.7, 10; see also Hopkins: Epic Mythology, p.227.
• Kumāra Sutta
• Kumāradhātusena (Kumāradāsa).-Son of Moggallāna I, and king of Ceylon (513-522 A.C.). His son was Kittisena (Cv.xli.1f). Tradition tells of his friendship with a poet Kālidisa. The authorship of the Jānakīharana is generally ascribed to him (Cv.Trs.i.51, n.1).
• Kumāra-Kassapa
• Kumāra-Kassapa-thera Vatthu.-The story of Kumāra-Kassapa (q.v.) and his mother. DhA.iii.144ff.
• Kumārapabba.-The section of the Vessantara Jātaka which deals with the giving away of Vessantara's children to Jūjaka. J.vi.555.
• Kumārapañha
• Kumārapeta Vatthu
• Kumārasena.-Brother of Dhātusena. He helped Dhātusena to crush the Damilas, and was amply rewarded for his services. Cv.xxxviii.35, 53.
• Kumārasīha.-Son of Vimaladhammasūriya; he was adopted by King Senāratana and given the province of Uva. He died young. Cv.xcv.22; also Cv.Trs.ii.233, n.3.
• Kumāribhūta Vagga.-The eighth section of the Bhikkhunī Pācittiya. Vin.iv.327-37.
• Kumārīpañhā
• Kumāriya Sutta.-Few abstain from accepting women or girls, many do not. S.v.471.
• Kumba.-See Kumbagāma.
• Kumbagāma.-A Damila stronghold near Anurādhapura, which was captured by Dutthagāmani. It was commanded by Kumba (Mhv.xxv.14).
• Kumbālaka.-One of the. tanks built by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.48.
• Kumbalatissa-pabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon. Ras.ii.189.
• Kumbalavāta.-A locality near Anurādhapura; through it passed the boundary of the Mahāvihāra (Mhv. p.332; Mbv.134; Dpv.xiv.38).
• Kumbha Jātaka (No.512)
• Kumbha Sutta
• Kumbha Vagga.-The fifth chapter of the Tika Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.ii.431-51.
• Kumbhaghosaka
• Kumbhakanna
• Kumbhakāra Jātaka (No.408)
• Kumbhanda
• Kumbhandā.-A class of beings (fairies or gnomes) grouped with Yakkhas, Rakkhasas, Asuras and others. Virūlha 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 Kumbhavatī (q.v.).
• Kumbhavatī.-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.
• Kumbhīla Jātaka (No.206).-Evidently another version of the Vānarinda Jātaka, though the scholiast refers to another Kumbhīla Jātaka for particulars (thus in all MSS). J.ii.206.
• Kumbhīla Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. Ras.ii.111.
• Kumbhīlasobbha.-A tank restored by Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.50), and later by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.33.
• Kumbhīlavānaka.-A river in Ceylon which joins the Sankhavaddhamānaka. Cv.lxviii.32; see also Cv.Trs.i.279, n.4.
• Kumbhīra
• Kumbiyangana.-See Kutumbiyangana.
• Kumbugāma (v.l. Kubbugāma).-A village in Rohana. It is mentioned in the campaigns of Damilādhakārī Rakkha (Cv.lxxv.149, 167, 172).
• Kumbulapabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon. Ariyagālatissa found sixty treasure troves there. Ras.ii.137.
• Kumma Sutta
• Kummāsadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago, having nothing else to give, he put sour gruel into the bowl of Vipassī Buddha (Ap.ii.415). He is evidently identical with Sīvaka Thera. ThagA.i.307.
• Kummāsapinda Jātaka (No.416)
• Kumuda
• Kumudadāyaka Thera
• Kumudamāliya Thera
• Kunāla
• Kunāla Jātaka (No.536)
• Kunālā.-The name of a river (mahānadī) which flows out of the Kunāladaha. 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).
• Kuñcanāga, Kuñjanāga
• Kunda.-A yakkha who once inhabited a forest, called Kundadhāna (UdA.122) after him.
• Kundadhāna Thera
• Kundadhānavana
• Kundakakucchisindhava Jātaka (No.254)
• Kundaka-kumāra.-The lay name of the ascetic Khantivādī. J.iii.39.
• Kundakapūva Jātaka (No.109)
• Kundakasindhavapotaka Jātaka.-See Kundakakucchisindhava Jātaka.
• Kundalā
• Kundala (v.l. Kulakundala) Thera
• Kundalakesā, Kundalakesī.-See Bhaddā Kundalakesī.
• Kundalakesittheri Vatthu.-The story of Bhaddā Kundalakesī (q.v.). DhA.ii.217ff.
• Kundalī
• Kundalī Sutta.-Records the visit of Kundaliya to the Buddha. S.v.73ff.
• Kundalinī.-The name given to the offspring of the sārikā(myna)-bird in the Tesakuna Jātaka. She is identified with Uppalavannā. J.v.125.
• Kundalinī-pañha.-The questions asked by the king and the answers given by Kundalinī, as stated in the Tesakuna Jātaka. J.v.120.
• Kundaliya
• Kundarāyana.-See Kandarāyana.
• Kundasālā.-A suburb of Sirivaddhanapura (Kandy), on the banks of the Mahāvāluka-gangā. It was laid out by King Narindasīha, who made it his favourite residence (Cv.xcvii.34). Kittisirirājasīha planned its garden and erected a vihāra. Cv.c.216f.
• Kundavana.-See Gundāvana.
• Kundayamutta.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. He was defeated in battle by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.94, 177.
• Kundayankotta (?). A locality in South India, where Lankāpura once pitched his camp (Cv.lxxvi.176).
• Kundi, Kundiya
• Kundinagariya Thera.-The name given to Potthapāda because he was born and brought up in Kundi. He lived in the Sānavāsīpabbata nearby. Pv.iii.2; PvA.177ff.
• Kunditthâna.-See Kundadhāna.
• Kundiyā.-See Kundadhānavana.
• Kundukāla
• Kunhāna.-See Kundadhāna.
• Kuñjara 1.-Devānampiyatissa's elephant, tied to the plough which marked the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra. 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 Pācina-vihāra of the Theravādins, and was later set up beside the Bodhi-tree of the Abhayagiri-vihāra by Silākāla (Cv.xli.31).
• Kuntamālaka.-A locality near Anurādhapura through which passed the boundary of the Mahā-vihāra. It was the point from which the king started to mark the sīmā. v.l. Kotthamālaka. (Mhv., p.331; Mbv.134; Dpv.xiv.28, 33).
• Kuntani Jātaka (No.343)
• Kuntavarā.-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-dhātu Kitti (Cv.lxxvi.259).
• Kuntī.-A kinnarī, mother of the theras Tissa and Sumitta. Their father was a former inhabitant of Pātaliputta.
• Kupikkala.-The birthplace of the Elder Mahā-Tissa. v.l. Kuvikkala, Kubbikāla, Kutthikula. Mhv.xxxiii.49.
• Kuppa Sutta.-The monk who has the four patisambhidā and has an emancipated mind realises that which is unshakable (akuppa). A.iii.119f.
• Kupuvena.-A village and a monastery. The story of a sāmanera 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
• Kurangavī
• Kuraragham-Papāta-pabbata.-See Papāta-pabbata.
• Kuraraghara
• Kuraragharikā.-See Kālī (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 Damilādhikārī Rakkha defeated his enemies. Cv.lxxv.137.
• Kureñjiyaphaladāyaka (Kuruñjiya°) Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a hunter, and having seen the Buddha Sikhī 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 Vihāra, 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 Mahānela.
• Kurudhamma = the pañcasīla
• Kurudhamma Jātaka (No.276)
• Kurukaccha.-Probably a wrong reading for Bhārukaccha.
• Kurukhetta.-Another name for the country of the Kurūs. J.vi.291.
• Kurumba.-A Damila chief, subdued by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.14f.
• Kurumbāndanakali.-A locality in South India, where a great battle was fought between Lankāpura and Kulasekhara (Cv.lxxvi.157).
• Kurundacullaka.-A parivena in the Jetavana-vihāra in Ceylon, the residence of Dāthāvedhaka. MT.176.
• Kurundankundiya.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.236, 266.
• Kurundapillaka.-A monastery in Ceylon. Potthakuttha erected a pāsāda there (Cv.xlvi.21).
• Kurundavāpi.-A tank built by Aggabodhi I. (Cv.xlii.15; Cv.Trs.i.66, n.6).
• Kurundavāsoka-Vihāra.-A monastery built by Khallātanāga (Mhv.xxxiii.32).
• Kurundavelu.-A vihāra in Ceylon, where was compiled the Kurundī-Atthakathā.
• Kurunda-Vihāra.-A monastery built by Aggabodhi I. and dedicated to all three fraternities (Cv.xlii.15).
• Kurundī.-A village in Ceylon. Cv.lxxxiii.16; lxxxviii.64; Cv.Trs.ii.149, n.9.
• Kurundī-Atthakathā
• Kurundīrattha.-See Kurundī above.
• Kurundiya-Vihāra.-A monastery repaired by Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.60); probably identical with Kurunda-Vihāra.
• Kurungamiga Jātaka (No.21, 206)
• Kurungamiga Vagga.-The third section of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.i.173-98.
• Kuruvaka-tittha.-A secluded bathing-place in a large pond near the Cittalapabbata-vihāra (MA.ii.1025).
• Kusa
• Kusa Jātaka (No.531)
• Kusaghara.-A city (?). The Buddha's lower robe (nivāsana) was deposited there after his death. Bu.xxviii.8.
• Kusalā Sutta 1.-Conditions which are on the side of goodness have their root in earnestness (appamāda); the earnest monk cultivates the seven bojjhangas. S.v.91.
• Kusalā Sutta 2. Similar to No.1. The conditions have their root in yoniso-manasikāra. S.v.92.
• Kusalarāsi Sutta 1.-The five hindrances (nivarana) could rightly be called a heap of demerit and the five satipatthānas a heap of merit. S.v.145.
• Kusalarāsi Sutta 2.-The four satipatthānas could rightly be called a heap of merit. S.v.186.
• Kusamāli.-One of the seas through which the mariner Suppāraka (q.v.) piloted his ship. It was full of emeralds and looked like an expanse of dark kusa-grass. Its full name was Nīlavanna Kusamāla. 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 Kosambī. SNA.i.300; MA.ii.539; UdA.248; PsA.413; see also Rāmāyana i.34.
• Kusanāli Jātaka (No.121)
• Kusanāli Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.i.441-65.
• Kusatthakadāyaka 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.
• Kusāvātī
• Kusima.-See Kusumī below.
• Kusinārā
• Kusinārā Sutta
• Kusinārā Vagga.-The thirteenth chapter of the Tīkā Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.274-84; for a summary of its contents see A.v.381.
• Kusinārā Vihāra.-A monastery built by Parakkamabāhu I. in a suburb of Pulatthipura, called Sīhapura. It consisted of three image houses, each containing three storeys, six pāsādas, etc. Cv.lxxiii.152; lxxviii.84; also Cv.Trs.ii.18, n.3.
• Kusinātā.-One of the cities of Uttarakuru (D.iii.200).
• Kusīta Sutta 1.-A woman who is faithless, shameless, unscrupulous, indolent and of weak wisdom is reborn in purgatory. S.iv.242.
• Kusīta Sutta 2.-Eight occasions on which a monk is apt to become indolent (A.iv.332f).
• Kusumamūlagāma.-A village near Padumanagara, residence of the Thera Dhammadhara. (Sās.163)
• Kusumanagara.-The Pāli name for the city now known as Bassein, in Burma (Bode, op. cit., 24). Near the city was the birthplace of Chapata. Sās.74; see also pp.41, 43, 147; Ind. Ant. 1893, xxi.17.
• Kusumapura.-See Pātaliputta.
• Kusumārāma.-Another name for Pupphārāma. (Cv. ci.7)
• Kusumāsaniya Thera
• Kusumī.-A seaport in Rāmañña where a part of the Sinhalese expeditionary force sent by Parakkamabāhu I. landed in five ships (Cv.lxxvi.59). It is probably the same as Kusumatittha mentioned in the Sāsanavamsa (E.g., pp.66, 90) as a seaport. v.l. Kusima.
• Kūta Sutta
• Kūtadanta
• Kūtadanta Sutta
• Kūtāgārasālā
• Kutajapupphiya Thera
• Kutakannatissa (Kutikannatissa)
• Kūtāli Vihāra.-A monastery in Rohana, founded by Kākavannatissa (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 Vihāra (q.v.).
• Kūtatissa Vihāra.-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).
• Kūtavānija Jātaka (No. 98, 218)
• Kūtavinicchayaka-peta
• Kutelitissamahā-vihāra
• Kutendu.-A vassal of the Cātummahārājikas, present at the preaching of the Mahā Samaya Sutta. D.ii.258.
• Kuthārasabhā.-Some sort of council chamber, probably attached to the Court in Ceylon. Kittisirimegha is mentioned as employing the services of the head of the sabhā to fetch the prince Parakkamabāhu from his retreat (Cv.lxvi.61).
• Kuthāri-vihāra.-A monastery in Ambatthakola used by Moggallāna I. as his headquarters in his campaign against Kassapa I. Cv.xxxix.21.
• Kutidāyaka 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-abhivassī. Ap.i.229.
• Kutidhūpaka 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.
• Kutidūsaka Jātaka (No.321)
• Kutidūsaka Vagga.-The third chapter of the Catukka Nipāta of the Jātaka Commentary. J.iii.71-102.
• Kutivihārī Thera
• Kuttāndāra.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara, defeated by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.182, 190.
• Kuttapiti.-A large village given by Kittisirirājasīha for the maintenance of the sacred Footprint in Samanakūta. Cv.c.225.
• Kutthuka.-The general of Sena II. He built the parivena, which was called Senasenāpati (Cv.li.88). See also Potthakuttha.
• Kutūhalasālā Sutta
• Kutumbariya
• Kutumbiya Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. It was once the residence of Tissamahānāga 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
• Kuvannā
• Kuvera (Kubera)
• Kuveradvāra.-One of the fourteen gates of Pulatthipura, erected by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiii.161.
• Kuvera-nālinī.-A name given to Dharanī. D.iii.202; DA.iii.968.
• Kyānagāma.-A village in the Malaya country, not far from Pulatthipura. Lankādhikāri Kitti once encamped there (Cv.lxx.283, 300; lxxii.207), and Parakkamabāhu I. went there disguised as a musician. Cv.lxxii.264.