Pali Proper Names - P - 

• Pamāda Sutta
• Pamāda Vagga. The ninth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikiya. A.i.15f.
• Pamādavihārī Sutta. The difference between him who dwells in heedlessness and him who dwells in earnest. S.iv.78.
• Pamatta. Fifteen kappas ago there were eight kings of this name all previous births of Saparivāriya Thera. v.l. Samatta, Somagga. Ap.i.172.
• Pamitā. One of the seven children of the Sākiyan Sīhahanu, and therefore a sister of Suddhodana. v.l. Pālitā. Mhv.ii.20; MT.135; she is not mentioned in Dpv. (see iii.46).
• Pamokkharana. A king of seventy seven kappas ago, a previous birth of Nāgakesariya Thera. Ap.i.222.
• Pamsu Sutta. The five classes of pamsukūlikas, corresponding to the five kinds of āraññakas. (See Arañña Satta.) A.iii.219.
• Pamsudhovaka Sutta. The process of getting rid of the impurities found in gold ore is a very gradual one, involving many stages; so is the progress in ecstatic meditation, the first step in which is the removal of the gross sins. A.i.253.
• Pamsukūladhovana Jātaka
• Pamsukūlapūjaka Thera
• Pamsukūlasaññika Thera. An arahant. He was a hunter in the time of Tissa Buddha, and, one day, seeing in the forest a pamsukūla robe of the Buddha, he worshipped it (Ap.ii.418f). He is probably identical with Punnāmāsa Thera. ThagA.i.297f.
• Pamsukūlī, Pamsukūlino, Pamsukūlikā
• Pamsupabbata vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, mentioned as the residence of Bhuvenakabāhu Thera. P.L.C. 247.
• Pamsupisācakā. A class of pisācas, born in filth. MA.ii.713, 921; UdA.247. The word is used as a term of contempt. E.g., AA.i.438; MA.ii.610, 611.
• Pānā Sutta
• Pāna Sutta. Few are they who abstain from taking life, more numerous they who do not. S.v.468.
• Panāda
• Pānadhidāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he gave a couch (pānadhi?) to a forest dwelling sage. Seventy seven kappas ago he was eight times king under the name of Suyāna. Ap.i.208f.
• Pananagara. A village in Ceylon which was one of the centres of the campaigns of Pandukābhaya. Mhv.x.27.
• Panasabukka, a village in the Guttahāla district of Ceylon. Cv.lxi.12.
• Panasaphaladāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety one kappas ago he saw the Pacceka Buddha Ajjuna in Himavā and offered him a ripe jack fruit as large as a pot on a platter of leaves. Ap.i.297; cf. ibid., ii.446.
• Panasiyarāja, a Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.99.
• Panayamāra or Panayamāraka. A Damila ursurper who slew Bāhiya, another ursurper, and reigned in Anurādhapura for seven years (between 439 and 454) till he, in turn, was slain by his commander in chief Pilayamāra. Mhv.xxxiii.57ff.; Dpv.xix.15; xx.16.
• Pañca Sutta. See Anattalakkhana Sutta. S.iii.66.
• Pañcacchiddageha
• Pañcacūlaka. The name of Sanankumāra when he was born as a human in a former birth. He practised the jhānas, and having died in that state, was born in the brahma world (MA.ii.584). More probably, Pañcacūlaka here is not a name but a description meaning "while he was yet a lad with his hair tied in five knots."
• Pañcacūlakagāmadāraka. The disguise assumed by Vissakamma when, acting on Sakka's orders, he went with Asoka to fetch the relics for his cetiyas. These relics lay buried, and no one had been able to find them. DA.ii.614; see Pañcacūlaka above for more probable explanation.
• Pañcadīpadāyikā Therī
• Pañcadīpī. See Pañcadīpadāyikā.
• Pañcadīpika Thera. An arahant. He was once a follower of Padumuttara Buddha and lit a lamp under his bodhi tree. Thereby he obtained the power of being able to see through all obstacles. Thirty-four kappas ago he was king, under the name of Satacakkhu. Ap.i.108.
• Pañcadīpika. See Pañcadīpadāyikā.
• Pañcagaru Jātaka (No. 132) = Bhiruka Jātaka
• Pañcagati Buttā. A series of suttas in which the Buddha declares that, through not understanding the four Ariyan truths, beings continue to be born in one or other of the five conditions: as humans, animals, petas, devas, or in the nirayas. S.v.474ff.
• Pañcagativannanā. The name of a Commentary. Gv.65, 75.
• Pañcaggadāyaka
• Pañcaggalalenavāsī Tissa. A young novice who could travel through the air. One day, while so journeying, he heard the daughter of the chief artisan of Girgāma singing in a lotus pond while bathing with five hundred friends. He was attracted by her voice and lost his concentration of mind. SNA.i.70.
• Pañcahatthiya Thera
• Pañcaka. See Pandaka and Pañcikā.
• Pañcakanga
• Pañcala vihāra. A monastery in Sonnagiripāda (in Ceylon); the residence of the monk Sona, the son of a hunter. AA.i.255. See also Pipphali Vihāra.
• Pañcāla, Pañcālajanapada, Pañcālarattha, Pañcālā
• Pañcālacanda
• Pañcālacandī
• Pañcālī
• Pañcāliputta
• Pañcamaka.-One of the ten sons of Kālāsoka (q.v.).
• Pañcambangana. A place in Mahāmeghavana in Anurādhapura. Here Dārubhatika Tissa had a pond made, which was later filled up by Dhātusena, who had a series of cells built there. It is probably identical with Pañhambamālaka (q.v.). Mhv.xxxiv.23; MT 626.
• Pañcanadī, Pañcamahānadī
• Pañcangika Vagga. The third section of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.14 32.
• Pañcanguliya Thera. An arahant. Ninety two kappas ago he approached Tissa Buddha, who was entering the Gandhakuti, and offered him a handful of perfume. Seventy two kappas ago he was a king called Sayampabhā. Ap.i.186.
• Pañcanikāyamandala. An assembly hall in the Lohapāsāda, where the monks living to the north of the Mahāvālukanadī used regularly to assemble at the end of the rainy season. DA.ii.581.
• Pañcanīvarana Sutta. On the five nīvaranas, their evil results and the means of getting rid of them. A.i.3ff.
• Pañcapandita Jātaka (No. 508)
• Pañcapāpā
• Pañcaparivenamūla
• Pañcappakarana. Name given to the collection of the books of the Abhidhammapitaka, with the exception of the Dhammasangani and the Vibhanga. There is a Commentary on these by Buddhaghosa and Ananda Vanaratana. P.L.C.210; Gv.64 75.
• Pañcarājāno Sutta
• Pañcasālā. A brahmin village of Magadha. For an episode connected with it see Pinda Sutta. S.i.113; DhA.iii.257; Mil.154.
• Pañcasatarattha. A district in Ceylon (the modern Pansiyapattu to the North east of Kandy) where King Senāratna once deposited the Tooth Relic to guard it from his enemies. Cv.xcv.9.
• Pañcasatikā. The name given to the First Council, which was held under the presidency of Mahā Kassapa. Five hundred monks took part in it, hence its name. MT.151.
• Pañcasatikakhandhaka. The eleventh section of the Cullavagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Pañcasattatimandira. A building erected in Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. for "the reception of the magic water and the magic thread given him by the yellow robed ascetics. " (Cv.lxxiii.73) Geiger suggests that the building was used for paritta ceremonies. Cv.Trs.ii.9, n.2.
• Pañcasikha
• Pañcasikha Sutta. Pañcasikha visits the Buddha at Gijjhakūta and asks how it is that some beings are wholly set free in this very life, while others are not. The Buddha enlightens him. S.iv.103f.
• Pañcasikkhāpada Sutta. On account of a common element those who commit the five evils   take life, steal, etc.   consort with those who do likewise. S.ii.167.
• Pañcasīla Sutta. The five things, being possessed of which makes women to be born in purgatory   the taking of life, theft, wrong sensuous indulgence, falsehood, the use of intoxicants. These are to be guarded against. S.iv.245.
• Pañcasīlasamādāniya Thera
• Pañcattaya Sutta. Preached at Jetavana. It deals with various schools of thought and their doctrines regarding the future. Some say the self is conscious, others deny this; some teach annihilation, others deny that. The Buddha does not support any of these speculations. M.ii.228ff.
• Pañcatthānadāna Sutta.-The name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 58) to the Bhojana Sutta (2) (q.v.).
• Pañcavaggiyā
• Pañcaverabhaya Sutta
• Pañcavihāra. A place near Pulatthinagara to which Parakkamabāhu I. and his followers retreated while awaiting a favourable opportunity to advance against Mānābharana. Cv.lxxii.116f.
• Pañcavudha Jātaka (No. 55)
• Pañcāvudha-kumāra. See Pañcāvudha Jātaka.
• Pañcayojanarattha. A district in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, the modern Pasyodunkorala. It is mentioned in various campaigns, and was irrigated and made fertile by Parakkamabāhu I. In it was the Bhīmatittha vihāra, once the repository of the Tooth Relic. Cv.Ivii.71; lxi.35; lxviii.51; lxxii.57; lxxv.21; lxxxv.81.
• Pañcikā. See Moggallāna Pañcikā.
• Pañcuddharattha. The name of the districts lying round the modern city of Kandy. Cv.xciv.4; xcv.23, 24; xcvi.17; see Geiger, Cv.Trs.ii.233, n.2.
• Pañcuposatha Jātaka (No. 490)
• Pandaka
• Pandara
• Pandarakā. The name of a river which is mentioned with Mallangiri and Tikūta as a haunt of Kinnarī's. (J.iv.438, 439).
• Pandaranga
• Pandarasa. See Pandara (5).
• Pandava
• Pandavāvana. A park laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lixix.12.
• Pandavavāpī. A tank and a monastery in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.48, 58). The tank was later enlarged by Parakkamabāhu I. and converted into the Parakkamasamudda. Ibid., lxviii.39; for its identification see Cv.Trs.i.219, n.1.
• Pandimandalanādālvara. A Damila chief. Cv.lxxvi.179.
• Pandita
• Panditakumāraka. A Licchavi who, with Abhaya, visited Ananda at the Mahāvana in Vesāli and held a discussion regarding ascetic practices. A.i.220f.
• Panditapañha. See Pañcapanditapañha.
• Pandiyarāyara. A Damila chief. Cv.lxxvi.174, 178.
• Pandriya. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.184.
• Pandu
• Pandū
• Pandugati Nanda.-One of the Nava-Nandā.
• Panduka
• Panduka Nanda.-One of the Nava-Nandā.
• Pandukābhaya
• Pandukambalasilāsana
• Pandukanna
• Pandula. A brahmin of Pandulagāma, rich and learned in the Vedas. He taught Pandukābhaya, advised him in the choice of a wife, gave him one hundred thousand with which to raise an army, and allowed his son Canda to accompany him as his friend and counsellor. Mhv.x.20ff.
• Pandulagāma. The residence of Pandula (q.v.); it was to the south of Anurādhapura. Mhv.x.20.
• Pandunādukottāna. A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvii.105.
• Pandupura. A village near Sāvatthi. DhA.iii.449.
• Panduputta
• Pandurājā
• Panduvāsudeva
• Panduvijaya. A village founded by Parakkamabāhu I. in memory of his conquest of the Pandu country. Cv.lxxvii.105.
• Panga. The name of a Pacceka Buddha, found in a nominal list. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Pangura vihāra
• Pañhamandapatthāna. A place near the Abhayavāpi in Anurādhapura. SA.iii.151.
• Pañhambamālaka
• Panihita-acchanna Vagga. The fifth section of the Eka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.8 10.
• Panītatara Sutta. The four kinds of birth among the Nāgas and the pre eminent among them. S.iii.240.
• Paniva. A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.184,186.
• Pānīya Jātaka (No. 459)
• Pānīyadvāra. One of the gates of Pulatthipura erected by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiii.162.
• Pañjalipabbata. A mountain in South Ceylon, at the source of the Karindanadī. Here Theraputtābhaya lived after he renounced the world and became an arahant. v.l. Pañcalipabbata, Pajjalitapabbata.  Mhv.xxxii.14; Thūpavamsa 77.
• Pankadhā Sutta
• Pañkadhā
• Pankavela. A village in Ceylon where Vikkamabāhu II. defeated Jayabāhu I. and his brothers. Cv.lxi.16; see also Cv. Trs.i.226, n.2.
• Pañña Jātaka. See Pāniya Jātaka
• Paññā Sutta 1. On the four powers: wisdom, energy, innocence (anavajja) and collectedness or kindness (sangāha). A.ii.142.
• Pañña Sutta 2. On eight reasons and causes which strengthen elementary wisdom (ādibrahmacariyikā paññā). A.iv.151ff.
• Paññā Sutta. Few are they blessed with insight; more numerous they that are not. S.v.467.
• Pañña Vagga. The third section of the Patisambhidāmagga.
• Pannabhatta. A village given by Aggabodhi V. for the maintenance of the Tālavatthu (or Mahāsena) vihāra. Cv.xlviii.8.
• Pannadāyaka Thera
• Pannaka
• Pannakata. A city in Esikārattha. Pv.iv.7; PvA.195ff.
• Pannañjalika Thera. An arahant. Ninety two kappas ago he lay grievously ill at the foot of a tree in the forest. The Buddha Tissa, in his compassion, came to him, and Pannañjalika, unable to rise, clasped his hands above his head and worshipped the Buddha. Five kappas ago he was king five times, under the name of Mahāsikha. Ap.i.128.
• Pannasālaka. A village in Ceylon. Kalyānavatī, the first queen consort of Kitti Nissanka, was fond of this village and built a vihāra there, endowing it with all manner of possessions. Cv.lxxx.35.
• Pannattankotta. A locality in South India, mentioned in the account of Lankāpura's campaigns. Cv.lxxvi.313.
• Paññatti Sutta
• Paññattivādā (v.l. Pannatti-)
• Pannattivāda. See Paññattivāda.
• Paññavā Sutta. A monk who cultivates the seven factors of wisdom can be called intelligent. S.v.467.
• Pannavallakabhūta. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.47.
• Paññāvuddhi Sutta. The four states which conduce to growth in wisdom: association with the good, hearing the Doctrine, right reflection, and right behaviour in accordance with the Dhamma. A.ii.245.
• Pannika Jātaka (No. 102)
• Panthaka 1, see Cūla Panthaka and Mahā Panthaka.
• Panthaka 2. Mentioned as the name of a man. J.i.403.
• Pāpa Sutta. The wicked man is he who takes life, steals, etc., and is of malicious heart; more than wicked is he who encourages others in these things. Just so with the good and the more than good. A.ii.222f.
• Pāpa Vagga. The ninth section of the Dhammapada.
• Pāpadhamma Sutta. On the man who is wicked by nature and the one who is more than wicked; also on him who is of goodly nature and the one who is more than goodly. A.ii.223.
• Pāpaka. A monk who, believing that his name was of ill omen, wished to change it. The Buddha preached to him the Nāmasiddhi Jātaka (q.v.) to show that a name has no importance. J.i.401f.
• Papañcasūdanī. Buddhaghosa's Commentary on the Majjhima Nikāya. The colophon states that it was written at the request of the monk Buddhamitta of Mayūrapattana. The work is quoted in the Samantapāsādikā. Sp.iv.870.
• Pāpanika Sutta
• Pāpanivāriya Thera. An arahant. In the time of Piyadassī Buddha he had cleaned the cloistered walk of the Buddha and shown great exertion in the fulfilment of religious practices. Eleven kappas ago he was a king, named Aggideva. Ap.i.212f.
• Papāta Sutta. The Buddha once went with some monks to Patibhānakūta for the siesta, and a certain monk, seeing the precipice below them, asked if any precipice were deeper than that. Yes, answered the Buddha, the precipice of ignorance of the nature of dukkka. S.v.448f.
• Papāta Vagga. The fifth chapter of the Sacca Samyutta. S.v.446ff.
• Papātapabbata
• Papatita Sutta. He who does not possess the virtue, the concentration, the wisdom and the release of the Ariyans, is said to have fallen away from the Dhamma vinaya. A.ii.2.
• Pappata. A grove near the modern Colombo. Parakkamabāhu VI erected there the Sunetta parivena in memory of his mother. Cv.xci.24; see also Cv.Trs.ii.216, n.3 and 4.
• Papphālama. A landing place in Rāmañña where the forces of Damilādhikarin landed. Cv.lxxvi.63.