Pali Proper Names - D -

• Dibbacakkhu.-A false ascetic, a previous birth of Devadatta. For his story see the Somanassa Jātaka.
• Dibba-vihāra.-See Dīpa-vihāra.
• Diddha Sutta (v.l. Dittha Sutta).-Gains, favours and flatteries are like a poisoned dart to one whose mind has not attained to knowledge. S.ii.229.
• Dīgha
• Dīghabāhugallaka.-A vihāra built by Mahācūli-Mahātissa. Mhv.xxxiv.9.
• Dīghabhānakā
• Dīghabhānaka-Mahā-Abhaya.-See Mahā-Abhaya.
• Dīghabhānaka-Mahā-Siva.-See Mahā-Siva.
• Dīghābhaya
• Dīghabhayagallaka.-A Tamil stronghold in charge of Dīghābhaya and captured by Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxv.12.
• Dīghacankamana.-A parivena in Anurādhapura, built on the spot where Mahinda used to walk up and down in meditation. Mhv.xv.208.
• Dīghacārika Sutta.-Two suttas on the five results arising from roving about. A.iii.257.
• Dīghacārika Vagga.-The twenty-third chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.257-61.
• Dīghāgama.-See Dīgha-Nikāya.
• Dīghagāmanī
• Dīghajantu (Dīghajantuka) v.l. Dīghajayanta
• Dīghajānu
• Dīghajānu Sutta.-Records the visit of Dīghajānu to the Buddha.
• Dīgha-Kārāyana
• Dīghalambika.-A village, the birthplace of Dīghāyu. The Buddha lived there in the Araññakutikā. DhA.ii.235.
• Dīghalatthi Sutta.-Records the visit of Dīghalatthi (q.v.) to the Buddha.
• Dīghalatthi.-A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at the Kalandakanivāpa in Veluvana and spoke a verse (S.i.52). The Commentary (SA.i.87) says that Dīghalatthi (long-stick) was his nickname, referring to his great height  while on earth.
• Dīghāli.-A locality in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.60; lxxii.63; see Cv.Trs.i.325, n.2 and ii.49, n.3.
• Dīghaloma Sutta.-One who yearns for gains, favours and flattery, is like a long-fleeced she-goat in a thicket of briars. S.ii.228.
• Dīghanakha
• Dīghanakha Sutta
• Dīghanikāya
• Dīghapāsānaka.-A locality in Anurādhapura, through which the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra passed. Mhv. Appendix, p.332, vv.13; Mbv.136.
• Dīghapitthi.-The man who ran away with Dīghatālā, wife of Golakāla. J.vi.337f.
• Dīghapitthikā.-A class of petas whose bodies are sixty leagues in height. AA.ii.712; PsA.79.
• Dīgharāji.-A village in Magadha, the residence of many Samsāramocaka heretics. PvA.67.
• Dīghāsana.-A monastery in Ceylon, in which lived Mahānāma Thera (Cv.xxxix.42). Geiger thinks (Cv.Trs.i.48, n.1) that Dīghāsana is very probably a wrong reading for Dīghasanda.
• Dīghasandana (Dīghasandanaka)
• Dīghasandasenāpati-parivena.-See Dīghasandana.
• Dīghasumana.-A Thera of Ceylon, expert in the Vinaya. Vin.v.8; Sp.i.104.
• Dīghasumma.-A Thera of Kalyāni. A fisherman, living at the mouth of the Kalyāni River, gave him alms on several occasions and remembered him at the moment of his death. MA.ii.1008; AA.ii.522.
• Dīghatālā.-Wife of Golakāla. She ran away with Dīghapitthi, but Mahosadha restored her to her husband. J.vi.337f.
• Dīghatapassī
• Dīghataphala
• Dīghathūnikā.-The mare on which Dutthagāmani fled from Cūlanganiyapitthi. When the king and his minister Tissa offered their food to the Thera Gotāma, the mare also gave him her share. Mhv.xxiv.20, 27.
• Dīghati.-See Dīghiti.
• Dīghavāpi
• Dīghavatthu.-A tank, repaired by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lx.49.
• Dīghavidassabhātā
• Dīghāvu
• Dīghāvu-bhanavāra.-Second chapter of the tenth Khandaka of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya-pitaka. Vin.i.343ff.
• Dīghāyu (Dīghāvu)
• Dīghīti Kosala Jātaka (No.371)
• Dīghīti, Dīghati
• Dinnā
• Dinna.-Probably an attendant of King Milinda. Mil., p.56.
• Dīpa Sutta
• Dīpa.-A monk, probably of Ceylon, author of the Parivārapātha (Vin.v.226).
• Dipadādhipati.-There were once four kings of this name, all previous births of Sūcidāyaka Thera. Ap.i.122.
• Dīpālatittha.-A ford in the Mahāvāluka-gangā. Cv.lxxii.54.
• Dīpanayā.-An eminent therī of Ceylon, resident in Rohana. She was expert in the Dhamma and the Vinaya. Dpv.xviii.40.
• Dīpanī.-Wife of Mahinda VI. She was a cowherd's daughter (Cv.lxxx.15).
• Dīpankara
• Dīpankara-nagara.-Probably another name for Rammavatī. Cv.xxxix.51.
• Dīparājā
• Dīpavamsa
• Dīpa-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, residence of Summa Thera. v.l. Devī-vihāra, Dībba-vihāra. MA.i.126; AA.i.319; ii.845, etc.
• Dīpāyana.-See Kanhadīpāyana.
• Dipellā.-Daughter of Vijaya and Kuveni. MT.264.
• Dīpi Jātaka (No.426)
• Dīpika.-See Pañcadīpika.
• Dīpuyyāna.-A park in Pulatthipura laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. It was so called because it formed a peninsula. Cv.lxxiii.113; lxxix.6; Cv.Trs.ii.14, n.2.
• Disā.-A slave-woman of Okkāka. She was the mother of Kanha, ancestor of the Kanhāyana-gotta. D.i.93.
• Disampati
• Disāpāmokkha.-A monk of Burma. He joined the Order in his old age and studied hard, till he astonished the chief theras by his learning, and was appointed by King Narapati as his teacher. Sās., p.77.
• Disāpāmukha.-A Yakkha who kept guard, with seven thousand other Yakkhas, at the seventh gate of Jotika's palace. DhA.iv.209.
• Dittha Sutta.-See Diddha Sutta. See KS.ii.156, n.2.
• Ditthadhammika Sutta.-Kāludāyi asks Ananda, who explains, what is meant by ditthadhammika-nibbāna. A.iv.454.
• Ditthamangalikā.-Daughter of a setthi in Benares and wife of Mātanga. For her story see the Mātanga Jātaka.
• Ditthena Sutta.-The Buddha mentions certain heresies existing in the world and explains their origin. S.iii.211.
• Ditthi Sutta
• Ditthikathā.-Second chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. Ps.i.135-62.
• Divācandantabātava.-A forest in Rohana. Cv.lxxiv.61.
• Dīyavāsa. A locality through which passed the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra. Mbv.135.
• Diyavāsa.-A brahmin. The boundary of the Mahāvihāra passed by his house. Mbv.135; Mhv., p.332, vs.14.
• Dohalakhanda.-A section of the Vidhurapandita Jātaka. It deals with Vimalā's plan for seeing Vidhura. J.vi.262-74.
• Dohalapabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon, probably in the district of Janapada. Silāmeghavanna once occupied it (Cv.xliv.56; Cv.Trs.i.79, n.4). Near to it was an image house of the Buddha, called Sùkara. Cv. c.294.
• Dola. A minister of Devānampiyatissa. Sanghamittā lived in his house before the Upāsikārāma was built, so did Anulā till her ordination. MT. 388, 408.
• Dolāmandapa.-A building erected by Parakkamabāhu I. in the Dīpuyyāna. It was so called because it contained a swing hung with minute golden bells. Cv.lxxiii.116.
• Dolapabbata.-Also called Dolangapabbata. A mountain in Ceylon, to the south of the Mahāvālukanadī, where Pandukābhaya had his stronghold for four years. Mhv.xi.44; MT.287.
• Dona
• Dona Sutta
• Dona-gajjita.-A poem composed by the brahmin Dona, in honour of the Buddha.
• Donamukha
• Donapāka Sutta
• Donavatthu.-A brahmin village near Kapilavatthu, the residence of Punnā-Mantānīputta and of Aññākondañña. ThagA.i.37; ii.1; AA.i.81, 84, 114.
• Donivagga.-A village mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxxv.69, 72). It stood in a depression twelve miles from the modern Ratnapura, and the name is preserved in a stream flowing through it, the Denavaka. Cv.Trs.ii.50, n.3.
• Dorādattika.-A locality on the Jajjarā-nadī. At this spot Parakkamabāhu I. built a dam across the river and constructed a canal from there to Sūkaranijjhara. Cv.lxviii.37.
• Dovaca Sutta.-To get rid of unruliness, evil friendship and being tossed about in mind, one should cultivate the opposite qualities. A.iii.448.
• Dovārikamandala.-See Dvāramandala.
• Dubbaca Jātaka (No.116)
• Dubbalakattha Jātaka (No.105)
• Dubbalavāpitissaka-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, founded by Saddhātissa (Mhv.xxxiii.8). Kanitthatissa built for it an uposatha-hall. Mhv.xxxvi.17.
• Dubbanniya Sutta
• Dubbinoda Sutta.-Five things are hard to push against: ill-will, infatuation, ostentation and vagrant thoughts. A.iii.184.
• Dubbutthi. A king of Ceylon. He held a Giribhandamahāpūjā. Ras.ii.183,185.
• Dubbutthi-Mahātissa
• Duccarita Sutta
• Duccarita Vagga.-The twenty-fifth chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.267-70.
• Duddada Jātaka (No.180)
• Dudīpa.-See Dujīpa.
• Duggata Sutta.-Whenever one sees a hardship or a hard lot one should remember that one, too, has suffered likewise in some life or other. Incalculable is the course of samsāra. S.ii.186.
• Duggati Sutta.-The Ariyan who has unwavering faith in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha and is possessed of virtue, is free from an unhappy condition of existence. S.v.364.
• Dujīpa
• Dujjaya.-A king of a past age, a previous birth of Cūla-Cunda Thera. Ap.i.102.
• Dukkara (or Kumma) Sutta
• Dukkathā Sutta.-To five persons certain talk is ill-talk - talk on faith to the faithless, on virtue to the virtueless, on learning to one of little learning, on generosity to the mean, on insight to the foolish. A.iii.181.
• Dukkha Sutta
• Dukkhadhamma Sutta.-When a monk knows the arising and the destruction of all states of ill, he realizes the nature of sensual pleasures and has no longing for them. This is explained by various similes. S.iv.188ff.
• Dukkhakhandha Sutta.-See Cūladukkhakhandha Sutta and Mahādukkhakhandha Sutta.
• Dukkhalakkhana Vatthu.-The story of five hundred monks who, in the time of Kassapa Buddha, had practised meditation on the characteristics of suffering. In the present age they became arahants immediately on hearing a stanza on suffering. DhA.iii.406.
• Dukkham-ajjhatta Sutta.-The eye is Ill, so are the other senses, and therefore void of self. S.iv.2.
• Dukkham-bāhira Sutta.-Forms seen by the eye are Ill, so are the things perceived by other senses. They are void of self. S.iv.4.
• Dukkhamùla.-A Pacceka Buddha, mentioned in a nominal list. ApA.i.107; M.iii.70.
• Dukkhāni Sutta.-The five ills of a recluse: he is not content with any of the four requisites and finds no delight in the holy life. A.iii.146.
• Dukkhatātissa Sutta.-On the three forms of suffering, caused by pain, by the activities and by the changeable nature of things. S.v.56; cp. Dukkha Sutta 6 above.
• Dukkhena Sutta.-Desire should be put away for that which has suffering inherent in it. S.iii.178.
• Dukūla (Dukūlaka).-A hunter's son, father of Suvannasāma. He is identified with Mahā Kassapa. For his story see the Sāma Jātaka. See also Mil.123; Sp.i.214.
• Dullabha Sutta.-Three persons are hard to find in the world: a Tathāgata, one who can expound the Dhamma and Vinaya of a Tathāgata, and a grateful person. A.i.266.
• Duludesa.-A country, probably in South India. Cv.lvi.11.
• Dumasāra.-A Cakkavatti of four kappas ago, a former birth of Saññaka Thera. Ap.i.120.
• Dumbara.-A district in the Malaya country of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.5, 8.
• Dummedha Jātaka (No.50, 122)
• Dummukha
• Dundubhissara Thera.-An arahant. After the Third Council he accompanied the Thera Majjhima to the region at the foot of the Himālaya (Sp.i.68; MT.317; Mbv.115). In the Dipavamsa (viii.10) he is called Durabhisāra.
• Dunnivittha
• Duppañña Sutta
• Duppasaha.-A king of long ago, descendant of Mahāsammata. He was the last of fifty kings who ruled in Ayujjha. Sixty of his descendants reigned in Benares. Dpv.iii.16; MT.127.
• Durājāna Jātaka (No.64)
• Dūratissaka-vāpi
• Dūravāpi.-A tank built by Ilanāga (Mhv.xxxv.32), probably identical with Dūratissavāpi (q.v.).
• Dūre-nidāna
• Dūsī
• Dussadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he was a khattiya, and having received some garments as a tribute, gave them to the Buddha Siddhattha. Sixty-seven kappas ago he was a king named Parisuddha (Ap.i.185).
• Dussalakkhana.-A brahmin of Rājagaha who claimed to be able to prognosticate by looking at pieces of cloth. For his story see the Mangala Jātaka (J.i.373).
• Dussanta.-The Pāli form of the Sanskrit Dusyanta. E.g., Cv.lxiv.44.
• Dussapāvārika
• Dussārāma.-A monastery in Sīlavatī where the Buddha Sikhī died (Bu.xxi.28). The Commentary calls it Assārāma (BuA.204).
• Dussa-thūpa
• Dussāvudha
• Dussīla Sutta
• Dussīlya or Anāthapindika Sutta
• Dūta Jātaka (No.260, 478)
• Dūteyya Sutta
• Dutiya Sutta
• Dutiyamakkata Jātaka.-See Dūbhiyamakkata ??.
• Dutiyapalāyi Jātaka (No.230)
• Dutiyasela-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon (Sinhalese, Devanagala). Kittisirirājasīha gave to the vihāra the village of Ratanadoni. Cv.c.232.
• Duttha
• Dutthagāmanī-Abhaya
• Dutthakumārī.-Daughter of a banker of Benares. For her story see the Takka Jātaka.
• Dutthatthaka
• Duvera or Anāthapindika Sutta
• Duyyodhana
• Dvādasasahassaka.-A district in Rohana, the modern Giruvā-pattu. The meaning of the name is the province of the twelve thousand villages (Cv.lxi.22; lxxv.160, 166; Cv.Trs.i.227, n.2).
• Dvāraka.-See Dvāravatī.
• Dvārakathā.-The name of a book. Gv.65, 75.
• Dvāramandala
• Dvāranāyaka.-A village in Ceylon, given by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the padhānaghara built by him for Dāthāsiva (Cv.xlvi.13).
• Dvārapālaka Vimāna
• Dvāravatī (Dvāraka)
• Dvattimsākāra.-The third section of the Khuddakapāthaka - on the thirty-two component parts of the body. Khp. p.2; KhpA.37ff.
• Dvaya Sutta 1.-The various "duals" which exist - eye and object, ear and sound, etc. S.iv.67.
• Dvaya Sutta 2.-Owing to the "duals," mentioned above, arise the different kinds of consciousness, etc. - e.g., owing to the eye and objects arise eye-consciousness, etc. S.v.167f.
• Dvayakāri Sutta.-Double dealers are born, after death, among the egg-born harpies (S.iii.247).
• Dvayatānupassanā Sutta
• Dvebhāra.-A king of twenty-five centuries ago, a previous birth of Sukatāveliya. v.l. Vebhāra. Ap.i.217.
• Dvedhāvitakka Sutta
• Dvemātikā.-A late compilation, made in Burma, from the Pāli texts. It contains the Bhikkhu- and Bhikkhunī-pātimokkha, and extracts from the Parivāra and other Vinaya texts. Bode, op. cit., 6, n.2.
• Dverataniya Thera.-An arahant. In the time of Vipassī Buddha he was a hunter, and, seeing the Buddha in a forest, gave him a piece of flesh. Four kappas ago he was a king named Mahārohita. Ap.i.214.