Pali Proper Names - T -

• Tibhuvanamalla, also called Tilokamalla.-Son of Parakkamabāhu II (Cv.lxxxvii.16). He was in command of the troops stationed between Jambuddoni and the Southern sea and he lived in Mahāvatthalagāma. Cv.lxxxviii.20.
• Ti-campakapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth, ninety-one kappas ago, he saw a holy recluse under the mountain Vikata, near Himavā, and offered him three campaka-flowers. Ap.i.227.
• Tidasa.-A name given to Tāvatimsa, the inhabitants being called Tidasā (J.iii.357, 413; vi.168; v.20, 390). The Tidasa devas are spoken of as being full of glory. S.i.234.
• Tidiva.-A name given to Tāvatimsa. See also Tirītavaccha (3). J.iv.322, 450; v.14, 15.
• Tidivādhibhū.-A name given to Sakka.
• Tikandakivana.-See Tikantakivana below.
• Tikandipupphiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he saw the Buddha Sumangala in a grove and offered him a tikandi flower. Forty-six kappas ago he was a king named Apilāpiya. Ap.i.201f.
• Ti-kanikārapupphiya Thera
• Tikanna.-A brahmin. He once visited the Buddha and spoke in praise of tevijja brahmins. The Buddha explained to him that the threefold lore of the Ariyan disciple was a different and a far nobler thing. The brahmin accepted the Buddha as his teacher. A.i.164f; cp. D.i.73ff.
• Tikanna-Sutta.-Records the visit of Tikanna (above) to the Buddha.
• Tikannipupphiya
• Tikantaki-Sutta/Vagga
• Tikantakivana.-A grove in Sāketa, evidently identical with Kantakivana.
• Tika-Vagga.-The eleventh chapter of the Chakka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.445-9.
• Tikhinamantī
• Tikicchaka-Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he was a physician of Bandhumatī, and cured Asoka, the attendant of Vipassī Buddha. Eight kappas ago he was king under the name of Sabbosadha (Ap.i.190). He is evidently identical with Tekicchakāni Thera. ThagA.i.442.
• Tikicchā-Sutta.-On emetics administered by physicians and the corresponding emetics in the discipline of the Ariyans. A.v.218f.
• Ti-kinkinipupphiya Thera.-ān arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he gave three kinkini-flowers to Vipassī Buddha (Ap.ii.433). He is probably identical with Cittaka Thera. ThagA.i.78.
• Tikonamālatittha.-The Pāli name for Trincomali in Ceylon. Cv.c.76.
• Tikūta.-A river in Himavā, the resort of the Kinnaras. J.iv.438, 439.
• Tilagulla.-A village in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon. It is mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Vijayabāhu I (Cv.lviii.43). Attached to it was a tank. Cv.lxviii.44; Cv.Trs.i.206, n.1.
• Tilamutthidāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he gave a handful of tiles seeds to the Buddha, who, reading his thoughts, appeared before him in a mind-created body. Sixteen kappas ago he was a king named Nandiya. Ap.i.235.
• Tilamutthi-Jātaka (No.252)
• Tilavatthu.-A canal which fed the Manihīra tank. Cv.lx.53.
• Tilokamalla.-See Tibhuvanamalla above.
• Tilokanagara.-The residence of Cūlasīva. So DA. (Hewavitarne edn.) ii.641, but P.T.S. edn. (ii.883) has Lokuttara.
• Tilokanandana.-A garden laid out in Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.8.
• Tilokasundarī.-A Kālinga princess, the second queen of Vijayabāhu I. She later became his chief queen and had five daughters - Subhaddā, Sumittā, Lokanāthā, Ratnāvalī and Rūpavatī - and a son, Vikkamabāhu. Cv.lix.29.
• Timanda.-A monster fish of the deep sea, five hundred leagues in length. He eats only seaweed. J.v.462.
• Timbaru
• Timbaruka
• Timbarutittha.-A pond at which sacrifices were offered. J.v.388, 389.
• Timirapingala.-A fish of the deep sea. He is one thousand leagues long and eats only seaweed (J.v.462).
• Timirapupphiya Thera
• Timitimingala.-A fish, one thousand leagues long, living in the deep ocean and feeding on seaweed (J.v.462; NidA.211).
• Timsamatta Sutta
• Tinakattha-Sutta.-Incalculable is the beginning of samsāra. If a man were to collect all the grasses and twigs of Jambudīpa, the number of his mothers would surpass them. S.ii.178.
• Tinakutidāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a servant, and, having been granted a day's leave by his master, he built for the Sangha a grass hut. As a result, he was born in Tāvatimsa after death. Ap.i.270f.
• Tinamutthidāyaka Thera
• Tina-Sākiyā
• Tinasanthāradāyaka Thera
• Tinasanthāraka.-Five kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, all previous births of Senāsanadāyaka (or Channa) Thera. Ap.i.137; ThagA.i.155.
• Tinasūlakachādaniya Thera
• Tinasūlaka-Thera
• Tinduka.-A watcher of corn (yavapālaka), who gave grass for his seat to Konāgamana Buddha. BuA.214.
• Tindukācīra. See Mallikārāma.
• Tindukadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he was a monkey who saw Siddhattha Buddha and gave him and his monks tinduka fruits to eat. Fifty-seven kappas ago he became king, under the name of Upananda. Ap.i.200f.
• Tindukagāma. A village near the Mahāvālukanadī. Ras.ii.157.
• Tinduka-Jātaka (No.177)
• Tindukakandarā.-A cave outside Rājagaha where lodgings were provided for visiting monks. Vin.ii.76; iii.159.
• Tindukaphaladāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he saw the Buddha Vessabhū and gave him tinduka fruit to eat (Ap.i.281).
• Tindukkhānu-paribbājakārāma.-A dwelling of Paribbājakas, near Vesāli. It was the residence of Pāthikaputta. D.iii.17.
• Tinimakkulagāma.-A village in the Malaya country in Ceylon, not far from Pulatthipura. Cv.lxx.284, 301.
• Tintasīsakola.-A region, thirty leagues in extent, near the spot where the stream from the Anotatta falls from a height of sixty leagues. The soil, being constantly sprinkled by the drops of water, is extremely soft and plastic and clay was obtained from there for the building of the Mahā Thūpa. MT.515.
• Tintinika.-A village granted by Mahānāga to the Mahāvihāra (Cv.xli.96). It was once the headquarters of Dāthāsiva (Cv.xliv.125). It evidently contained a tank which was restored by Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxviii.47).
• Tipa.-A Vanni chieftain of Ceylon, subdued by Bhuvanekabāhu I. Cv.xc.33.
• Ti-padumiya Thera
• Tipallatthamiga Jātaka (No.16)
• Tipitakālankāra.-A monk of Prome in Burma. He enjoyed the patronage of Surakitti, king of Burma, but for a time lived in retreat in Tiriyapabbata. Among his works are the Yasavaddhanavatthu and the Vinayālañkāratīkā. Sās., p.106; Bode: op. cit.53f.
• Tipucullasa.-See Tīsucullasa below.
• Tipupphiya-Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he offered three flowers to the Pātalī, the Bodhi-tree or Vipassī Buddha. Thirty-three kappas ago he became king thirteen times under the name of Samantapāsādika. Ap.i.136.
• Tiputthulla-vihāra
• Tiracchikā.-A Nāga maiden, sister of Mahodara. Her son was Cūlodara. MT.104.
• Tiramsiya-Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he was a hermit. He saw the Buddha Siddhattha and spoke verses in praise of him, extolling his lustre as surpassing that of the sun and of the moon. Sixty-one kappas ago he was a king named Ñānadhara. Ap.i.256f.
• Tirikkānappera.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.302; lxxvii.72, 82.
• Tirimalakka.-A village in South India. Cv.lxxvii.51, 52.
• Tirinaveli.-A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.143, 288; lxxvii.42, 91.
• Tirippāluru.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.309, 312.
• Tiriputtūru.-A place in South India. Cv.lxxvii.16, 20.
• Tiritara.-A Tamil usurper who succeeded Khuddapārinda on the throne. Two months after his accession he was killed by Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.32.
• Tirītavaccha
• Tirītavacchagāma.-See Milinda.
• Tirītavaccha-Jātaka (No.259)
• Tirītivaccha.-See Tirītavaccha (2).
• Tirivekambama.-A place in South India. Cv.lxxvi.238, 266, 276.
• Tirokudda-Sutta
• Ti-saranāgamaniya Thera
• Tisīhala.-See Sīhala.
• Tissa
• Tissā
• Tissabhūti
• Tissadatta
• Tissaka-Sutta.- Subrahmā approaches the Buddha and speaks of Katamoraka-Tissa. S.i.148.
• Tissāmacca.-Son of Venisāla. Having heard the Dakkhinā-vibhanga Sutta in the Tissamahārāma, he never ate without giving a share of his food to monks. He was later born as a tree deity near Kālatindukavihāra. Ras.ii.163f.
• Tissamahānāga Thera
• Tissamahārājā.-See Saddhātissa.
• Tissamahā-vihāra
• Tissambatittha. A village in Rohana. See Tissā (10). Ras.ii.31.
• Tissa-Metteyya.-See Tissa (7).
• Tissa-Metteyya-mānava-pucchā.-The question asked by Tissa-Metteyya, and the answer given by the Buddha (SN., p.199).
• Tissa-Metteyya-Sutta.-Preached to Tissa (7) and his friend Metteyya, at the latter's request. It deals with the evils that follow in the train of sexual intercourse. SN., p.160f; SNA.ii.535f.
• Tissarājamandapa.-The name given to the pavilions erected by Vohārīka-Tissa in the Mahāvihāra and in Abhayagiri (Mhv.xxxvi.31; Mhv.Trs.258, n.3).
• Tissarakkhā.-The second queen of Asoka; he married her four years before his death. She was very jealous of the attention paid by Asoka to the Bodhi-tree, and caused it to be killed by means of poisonous thorns (Mhv.xx.3ff).
• Tissārāma
• Tissa-Sutta
• Tissavaddhamānaka.-A locality in Ceylon, to the east of Anurādhapura (Mhv.xxxv.84). It contained the Mucela-vihāra and a tank of the same name (Mhv.xxxvii.48).
• Tissavāpi
• Tissavasabha.-Probably the name of a Bodhi-tree in Anurādhapura. It was surrounded by a stone terrace and a wall, both built by Sirimeghavanna. Cv.xxxvii.91; Cv.Trs.i.7, n.3.
• Tissa-vihāra.-A monastery in Nāgadīpa round which Vohāraka-Tissa built a wall (Mhv.xxxvi.36).
• Tisucullasa.-A village, probably in East Ceylon. v.l. Tipucullasa. Cv.xlv.78.
• Titthagāma.-A village, in the south-west of Ceylon (Cv.lxxii.42), where Parakkamabāhu I. established a coconut plantation. Cv.xc.93.
• Titthagāma-vihāra.-A vihāra in Titthagāma, the modern Totagamuva. It was erected by Vijayabāhu IV. and restored by Parakkamabāhu IV. Cv.xc.88; Cv.Trs.ii.208, n.2.
• Tittha-Jātaka (No.25)
• Titthaka. An ājīvaka who gave kusa grass to Phussa Buddha before his Enlightenment. BuA.147.
• Titthamba.-A Damita general of Ambatitthaka, who was conquered by Dutthagāmani after a four months' siege (Mhv.xxv.8; MT.473). Dutthagāmani deceived Titthamba by promising to give him his mother in marriage.
• Titthārāma.-A monastery built by Pandukābhaya for the use of non-Buddhist monks. It was near the Nīcasusāna in Anurādhapura. Vattagāmani demolished it and built on its site the Abhayagiri-vihāra. Mhv.xxxiii.42, 83.
• Tittha-Sutta.-The Buddha examines the three beliefs held by those of other sects - that whatever is experienced is due to past action, or is the creation of a supreme deity, or is uncaused and unconditioned. A.i.173ff.
• Titthiyārāma.-A monastery of the heretics, near Jetavana. J.ii.415, 416; iv.187, 188; ThigA. p.68.
• Tittira-Jātaka (No.37, 117, 319, 438)
• Tittiriya-brahmacariya.-See Tittira Jātaka (1). It consisted of observing the five precepts. MA.i.275.
• Tittiriyābrāhmanā.-The Pāli equivalent of the Sanskrit Taittirīyā. D.i.237.
• Tittiriya-pandita.-The name given to the partridge of the Tittira Jātaka (No.11). J.iii.537.
• Ti-ukkādhāriya Thera.-An arahant. Once in the past he lit three torches, which he stood holding, at the foot of the Bodhi-tree of Padumuttara Buddha. Ap.ii.404.
• Ti-uppalamāliya Thera
• Tivakka (Tavakka)
• Tivanka
• Tivarā.-The name given to the inhabitants of Mount Vepulla, then known as Pācinavamsa, near Rājagaha, in the time of Kakusandha Buddha. Their term of life was forty thousand years. S.ii.190.
• Tiyaggala
• Tobbalanāgapabbata.-A locality in Rohana. There Mahallakanāga erected a vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.125.
• Todeyya
• Todeyyagāma.-A village between Sāvatthi and Benares. It contained the shrine of Kassapa Buddha, which was honoured even in the present age. The Buddha once visited it in the company of Ananda. DhA.iii.250f.
• Todeyyaputta. See Subha (2)
• Tolaka-vihāra.-A monastery in Rohana near which Vihāramahādevī landed after she was cast into the sea at Kalyāni. MT.431 (see n.7).
• Tomanaratittha.-A ford in Ceylon. Ras.ii.184.
• Tompiya.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.144.
• Tondamāna.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. He had a mountain fortress where Kulasekhara once lay in hiding, and his wife had three brothers, all of whom helped him. He owned the villages of Tirimalakka and Kattala. Cv.lxxvi.137, 315; lxxvii.1, 32, 39, 51, 74.
• Tondipāra.-A locality in South India (Cv.lxxvi.236; lxxvii.81). Geiger takes the name to be that of two villages, Tondi and Pāra. Cv.Trs.ii.84, n.3.
• Tondiriya.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. He was slain by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.181f.
• Toranavatthu
• Toyavāpi.-A tank, one of the irrigation works of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvx.46.
• Tucchapothila.-See Pothila.
• Tudigāma.-The residence of Subha Todeyyaputta. AA.ii.554; MA.ii.802. See Todeyya.
• Tudu
• Tulādhāra
• Tulākūta-Sutta. Few are they that abstain from cheating with scales and measures; many are they that do not (S.v.473).
• Tumbarakandara.-A forest between Upatissagāma and Dvāramandalaka. Mhv.x.2; MT.280.
• Tumbarumālaka.-One of the mālakas of the Cetiyapabbata. The first upsampadā was held there by Mahinda, when Mahāarittha and the others received the upasampadā. Mhv.xvi.16.
• Tundagāma.-A village in the dominions of the Kosala king. Ras.i.46.
• Tundila
• Tundila-Jātaka (No.388)
• Tungabhaddā.-A canal branching off from the Dakkhinā sluice in the Parakkamasamudda. Cv.lxxix.45.
• Tusita
• Tusitā.-The inhabitants of the Tusita world. See Tusita (2).
• Tuttha.-A lay disciple of Ñātika who died and was reborn in the Suddhāvāsa, there to attain Nibbāna. S.v.358, D.ii.92.
• Tutthi-Sutta.-In order to get rid of dissatisfaction, want of self-possession, and desire for much, one should cultivate the opposite qualities. A.iii.448.
• Tuvaradāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a hunter who, having seen some monks in the forest, gave them a tuvara (?) (Ap.i.222).
• Tuvarādhipativelāra.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.138, 315; lxxvii.67.
• Tuvataka-Sutta
• Twin Miracle.-See Yamaka pātihāriya