Pali Proper Names - M -

• Māna
• Mānābharana, Mānabhūsana
• Mānabhūsana. See Mānābharana above.
• Mānacchidda. A Pacceka Buddha. M.i.70; ApA.i.107.
• Mānadinna Sutta. Records the visit of Ananda to Mānadinna below. S.v.178.
• Mānadinna. A householder of Rājagaha. When he lay ill he was visited by Ananda, to whom he confessed that even in his illness he practiced the four satipatthāna. He was quite free from the five orambhāgiyasamyojanā. S.v.178.
• Mānaggabodi. A monastery built by Aggabodhi VII. Cv.xlviii.64.
• Mānakāma Sutta. The praises spoken of the Buddha by a deva at Jetavana regarding his freedom from all vain conceits. S.i.4.
• Mānakapitthi. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.47.
• Mānamatta. A village, probably in North Ceylon; one of the spots where the Damilas, under Māgha and Jayabāhu, set up fortifications. Cv.lxxxiii.16.
• Manamekkundi. A locality of South India pillaged by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.87.
• Manāpa Sutta.-See Pātali Sutta
• Manāpadāyi Sutta
• Manāpakāyikā
• Manāpāmanāpā Sutta. Five qualities that make a woman attractive to a man: she is beauteous in form, possessed of wealth, moral, vigorous, and has offspring. Absence of these qualities robs her of this claim. Likewise for a man. S.iv.238f.
• Manasākata
• Manasi Sutta. If, for just the space of a finger snap, a monk indulges a thought of goodwill, such a one is to be called a monk. A.i.11.
• Manasikāra Sutta. Ananda asks the Buddha, and the Buddha explains how far it is possible to be without any distinct perception and apperception and yet possess perception and apperception. A.v.321f.
• Mānatthaddha
• Mānatthaddha Sutta. Records the visit of the brahmin Mānatthaddha to the Buddha. S.i.177f.
• Mānava Thera
• Mānavagāmiya, Mānavagāmika
• Mānavamma
• Mānavīramadhurā. A place in South India mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.213.
• Mañcadāyaka
• Mañcakkundi. A locality in South India mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvii.87.
• Mandadīpa. The name of Ceylon in the time of Kassapa Buddha; its capital was Visāla and its king Jayanta. The Mahāmeghavana was called Mahāsāgara. Mhv.xv.127; Dpv.i.73; ix.20; xv.57, etc.
• Mandagalla. A village near Anurādhapura, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.Iviii.43; Cv.Trs.i.206, n. 5.
• Mandagāma. A village in Rohana, given by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa, to the monks, in gratitude for a meal which they had given him. Cv.xlv.47; Cv.Trs.i.93, n. 5.
• Mandakappa. A kappa in which two Buddhas are born. BuA.158; J.i.38, 39, 41, 42.
• Mandākinī
• Mandalagiri Vihāra
• Mandalamandira. A building erected by Parakkamabāhu I. at Pulatthipura. It was used by the teacher specially appointed by him to recite Jātaka stories. Cv.lxxiii.72; see Cv.Trs.ii.9, n. 1.
• Mandalārāma
• Mandapadāyikā Therī. An arahant. She built a pavilion for Konāgamana Buddha. Ap.ii.514; ThigA.6.
• Mandapeyyakathā. The tenth chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga.
• Mandāra. A mountain in Himavā, mentioned together with Meru and Daddara. Ap.ii.536, 86; according to the Abhidhānappadīpikā (606), it is the western mountain, behind which the sun sets.
• Mandāravapūjaka Thera
• Mandavāpi-vihāra. A monastery built by Mahā Cūli Tissa (Mhv.xxxiv.8). Mahādāthika Mahānāga gave land for the monks of this vihāra out of gratitude to a sāmanera who lived there (Mhv.xxxiv.93).
• Mandavātaka. A tank in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.Ix.49.
• Mandavya
• Mandhātā
• Mandhātu Jātaka (No. 258)
• Mandī. A general of Parakkamabāhu I., mentioned among those who led his campaigns (Cv.lxx. 318; lxxii.161). He is titled Jivitapotthakī. See Cv. Trs.i. Introd. xxix. for an explanation of the title.
• Mandika. A tank in Ceylon restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.44; see Cv. Trs.i.280, n. 5.
• Mandikā. Mother of Mandikāputta (q.v.).
• Mandikāputta. See Upaka Mandikāputta. He was so called because be was the son of Mandikā (AA.ii.554; KhpA. 105). See also Samana Mandikāputta.
• Mandissa. A Paribbājaka of Kosambī, friend of Jāliya. It was to them that the Jāliya Sutta was preached. v.l. Mundiya.
• Mandiyaputta. See Mendiya ??, for which it is a wrong reading. DA.i.181.
• Mandūka
• Mangala 1-10
• Mangala gangā. A channel branching off from the sluice called Mangala in the Parakkama Samudda. See Mangala (5). Cv.lxxix.45.
• Mangala Jātaka (No. 87)
• Mangala Sutta
• Mangala Vagga. The fifteenth chapter of the Tika Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.i.292 4.
• Mangalabegāma. A place near Pulatthipura, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxvii.52; lxx. 178, 283, 297; lxxii.160, 207.
• Mangalacetiya
• Mangaladīpanī. A commentary on the Mangala Sutta, written by Sirimahgala of Laos. Bode, op. cit., 47.
• Mangalagiri. A spot where the Buddha was staying when Kāludāyi visited him at Suddhodana's request. Ap.ii.501.
• Mangalāna. A minister of Kittisirimegha (2). Cv.lxvi.66; see Cv. Trs.i.258, n. 2.
• Mangalankotta. A locality in South India, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxxvii.38). It is probably identical with Mangalgā (6).
• Mangalapabbata. See Mangalappadesa below.
• Mangalapāsāda. A palace in Kāsika, erected by Vissakamma and inhabited by Bodhighariya in a previous birth sixty five kappas ago. Ap.ii.401.
• Mangalapokkharanī. A bathing place in the garden of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiii.110.
• Mangalappadesa (Mangalapabbata). A place in the south of Ceylon which formed the limit of the estate given to Sāliya by Dutthagāmanī. MT.607.
• Mangalavitāna. A place in the west of Ceylon, near Vallipāsānavihāra. MT.552.
• Mangalavīthi.-A street in Mahāgāma. Ras.ii.34
• Mangana
• Mangujanapada.-A district in Ceylon. Ras.ii.180
• Mangura.-One of the ten sons of Kālāsoka (q.v.)
• Mani. A yakkha chief, to be invoked by Buddhists in time of need. D.iii.205.
• Maniakkhi, Maniakkhika
• Manibhadda (Sutta)
• Manibhaddavattikā
• Mānicara. A Yakkha chief to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need. See DA.iii.970; A iii.205; but see Cara (2).
• Manicetiya.-A thūpa in Rājamahāvihāra in Mahāgāma. Ras.ii.3
• Manicora Jātaka (No. 194)
• Manicūla Sutta
• Manicūlaka. A headman of Rājagaha. See Manicūla Sutta.
• Manidīpa. A sub commentary (anutīkā) to the Atthasālinī, by Ariyavamsa. Gv.65, 75; Bode, op. cit., 42.
• Maniguhā. One of the three caves in the Nandamūlakapabbhāra. In front of the cave was the Mañjūsaka tree (q.v.). SNA.i.66.
• Manihīra
• Manikā. The name of a vijjā, whereby thoughts can be read. DA.ii.389.
• Manikantha Jātaka (No. 253)
• Manikantha. A Nāga king. See Manikantha Jātaka. The king was so called because he wore round his neck a wish conferring gem. SP.iii.565.
• Manikāragāma. A village in Ceylon near which Candamukhasiva constructed a tank, the revenues from which he gave to the Issarasamana-vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.47.
• Manikārakulūpaga Tissa
• Manikhanda. A section of the Vidhurapandita Jātaka which contains a description of the marvellous jewel offered by Punnaka as a stake in the dice play with Koravya. J.vi.275 9.
• Manikundala Jātaka (No. 351)
• Manikundala Vagga. The thirty sixth chapter of the Jātakatthakathā. It forms the first chapter of the Pañca Nipāta. J.iii.153ff.
• Manimālaka. A Cetiya where the Buddha stayed and where he was visited by the Yakkha Manibhadda. S.i.208.
• Manimekhalā
• Manimekhala-pāsāda. A monastic building in Ceylon, probably belonging to the Mahāyānists. It held statues of the Bodhisattas, which were restored by Sena II. Cv.li.77.
• Manināgapabbata. A vihāra in the Kālāyana Kannikā in Rohana, built by Mahādāthika Mahānāga. Mhv.xxxiv.89; MT.637.
• Manipabbata, Manipassapabbata. A mountain range of the Himālaya. J.ii.92; v.38, 415; SNA.i.358.
• Manipāsāda
• Manippabhāsa. One hundred and sixteen kappas ago there were thirty two kings of this name, all previous births of Vedikāraka (Vijaya) Thera. Ap.i.171; ThagA.i.192.
• Manipūjaka Thera
• Manisāramañjūsā. A Commentary on the Abhidhammatthavibhāvanī, by Ariyavavamsa. Gv.65, 75; Bode, op. cit., 42.
• Manīsomārāma. Probably another name for the Somārāma. Kanittha Tissa built a parivena there (Mhv.xxxvi.8). Gothābhaya restored the vihāra and built there an uposatha house. Mhv.xxxvi.106f.
• Manisūkāra Jātaka (No. 285)
• Manisūria.-See Tambasumana
• Manithūnavimāna
• Maniupatthāna. One of the places appointed by King Bhātika for the dispensing of hospitality to the monks of Ceylon. Mhv.xxxiv.65; the MT. (633) calls it Maniupatthāna pāsāda.
• Mañjaripūjaka Thera
• Mañjerika
• Mañjetthaka Vagga. The fourth section of the Vimāna Vatthu.
• Mañjetthaka Vimāna. The abode in Tāvatimsa of a woman who once spread over the Buddha's seat a bouquet of flowers which she had gathered in Andhavana. Vv.iv.1; VvA.176f.
• Mañju
• Mañjūsaka
• Mankulakārāma
• Mankulapabbata. A locality where the Buddha spent his sixth vassa (BuA.3). The reference is perhaps to the Mankulakārāma (q.v.), but there the Buddha is said to have stayed only seven days of the rainy season.
• Mankura. On of the four ministers of Milinda who were sent to fetch Nāgasena to the palace. Mil., p. 29 f.
• Maññamāna Sutta. One who lets his imagination play on the body, feeling, etc., becomes Māra's bondsman. S.iii.74.
• Mannāra. A village in Ceylon (the modern Mannar) near Mahātittha. There Vīradeva defeated Vikkamabāhu (Cv.xli.39ff). The village possessed a harbour, where Māgha and Jayabāhu set up fortifications. Cv.lxxxiii.16.
• Mannaya. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara (Cv.lxxvi.141). He later joined Lankāpura (Cv.lxxvii.7, 35).
• Mannāya. A Damila chief, among the immediate retinue of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.220.
• Manohara. A park laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.9.
• Manohāra. A tīkā written by Dhammasenāpati Thera. Gv.63, 73.
• Manoharī
• Manoja
• Manoja Jātaka (No. 397)
• Manojava. A sage of old mentioned in a nominal list. J.vi.99.
• Manomaya. A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Manonivārana Sutta. Preached in answer to the question of a deva as to where the mind should be checked and where developed. S.i.14.
• Manopadosikā (Manopadūsikā)
• Manorathapūranī. Buddhaghosa’s Commentary on the Anguttara Nikāya, written at the request of Jotipāla and Jīvaka. AA.ii.874; Gv.59, etc.
• Manosattā. A class of devas. Beings who die devoted to some idea are born in their world - e.g., a Nigantha who will take only warm water and would rather die than take it cold. M.i.376; MA.ii.597.
• Manosilātala
• Mantānī
• Mantāvatī. A city, the birthplace of Sumedhā Therī, its chieftain being Koñca. Thig.vs.448; ThigA.272.
• Mantī. A brahmin well versed in reading auspicious signs. He was one of the brahmins consulted by Suddhodana when Gotama Buddha was born. J.i.56; Mil.236.
• Mantidatta Thera
• Manu. An Indian sage of old who wrote a work for the guidance of kings in good government. E.g., Cv.lxxx.9, 55; lxxxiii.6; lxxxiv.2; xcvi.26.
• Manujā. An eminent upāsikā mentioned in a list. A.iv.347; AA.ii.791.
• Manyāgāma. A village in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx. 133, 134.
• Māpamādakandarā
• Mā-puñña-bhāyi Sutta.-A sutta quoted in the Sutta Sangaha (No.30) from the Itivuttaka (p.14f). The Buddha admonishes monks to do good, assuring them that he has always profited by doing good.
• Māra
• Māra Samyutta. The fourth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.i.103 27.
• Māra Sutta. Rādha asks the Buddha as to what is meant by "Māra”. Anything that perishes, says the Buddha, such as body, feeling, perceptions, etc. S.iii.188.
• Māradhamma Sutta. The Buddha admonishes Rādha and says that desire for whatever is perishable, such as the body, etc., must be put away. S.iii.195, 198, 200.
• Māragalla
• Mārakāyika devi
• Maranasati Sutta
• Mārapabbata. See Māragalla.
• Mārapāsa Sutta. Māra's noose encircles him who finds delight in objects, sounds, etc. S.iv.91-92.
• Māratajjanīya Sutta
• Maravarā. The soldiers of a certain district in India. They were employed by Kulasekhara against Lankapura. Cv.lxxvi. 130, 246.
• Maricavatti
• Marugana-parivena. A building in Anurādhapura, erected on the spot where hosts of gods visited Mahinda to pay obeisance to him. Mhv.xv.211.
• Marumabatittha. A locality in Anurādhapura, through which passed the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra. Mbv.135, 136.
• Maruppiya. See Devānampiyatissa.
• Maruthukotta. A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.180.
• Maruthūpa. A village in South India mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.129.
• Marutta.-A brahmin of Homagāma. Once he gave food to a mangy dog, which later saved his life. See Ras.i.42f. for details.
• Marutta-pokkharanī
• Masakkasāra
• Māsapitthigāma.-A village near Brahmacola. It was built near the spot where a spring appeared by the virtue of a girl who gave water to a thirsty monk. Ras.ii.42.
• Masāra A hill from which the masāragalla stones are obtained. See Rhys Davids, Milinda Trs.i.117, n.6.
• Mataka Sutta. See Pacchābhūmika Sutta.
• Matakabhatta Jātaka (No. 18)
• Mātali
• Mātambiya. A Padhānaghara built by the Damila Potthakuttha. He gave for its maintenance the Ambavāpi at Būkakalla and the villages of Tantavāyikacātikā and Nitthilavetthi, together with slaves. Cv.xlvi.19f.; Cv. Trs.i.100, n. 1.
• Mātanga (1-4)
• Mātanga Jātaka (No. 497)
• Mātangaputta Thera
• Mātangārañña. Another name for Mejjhārañña. See Mil. 130; MA.ii.615.
• Mātari Sutta 1. Sometimes a man who would not lie, even for his mother's sake, has been won over by flattery and bribes. S.ii.241.
• Mātari Sutta 2. Six things -  such as killing his mother, father, etc. -  which a man who possesses right view will never do. A.iii.439.
• Matarodana Jātaka (No. 317)
• Māthara (v.l. Matthara)
• Mathurā. See Madhurā.
• Mātikā. A portion of the Vinaya Pitaka in its arrangement according to Dhammakkkandhas. DA.i.24.
• Mātikapitthaka. A vihāra in Ceylon, built by the sword bearer of Aggabodhi II. Cv.xlii.43.
• Mātikatthadīpanī. A work on the Abhidhamma, ascribed to Chapata. Gv. 64; Bode, op. cit., 19.
• Mātikatthakathā. Another name for the Kankhāvitaranī.
• Matta
• Mattā
• Mattābhaya
• Mattakela. One of the eleven children of Pandavāsudeva and Bhaddakaccānā. Dpv.x.3.
• Mattakundali Jātaka (No. 449)
• Mattakundali, Matthakundali
• Mattapabbata. A monastery in Ceylon where Aggabodhi II. built a padhānaghara for Jotipāla Thera. Cv.xlii.46.
• Matteyyā Sutta. Few are they who abstain from intoxicating liquor; many they that do not. S.v.467.
• Matthalā. The name of a tribe mentioned in a nominal list. Ap.ii.359.
• Matthara. See Māthara.
• Mattikāvāpi. A village in the ālisāra district of Ceylon, where Māyāgeha captured an entrenchment. Cv.lxx.172.
• Mattikāvātatittha. A landing place in Ceylon, the scene of the embarkment of part of the army sent by Vījayabāhu to the Cola kingdom. Cv.Ix.34.
• Mātugāma Samyutta. The thirty seventh section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.238 60.
• Mātugāma Sutta. No woman can persistently possess the heart of a man who is influenced by gains and flattery. S.ii.234.
• Mātula Vihāra.-A monastery in Roliyajanapada. Ras.ii.51.
• Mātulā. A village in Magadha, where the Buddha stayed and where he preached the Cakkavattisīhanāda Sutta. A iii.58.
• Mātulagiri. A place in Sunāparanta where Punna Thera lived for some time. MA.ii.1015; SA.iii.15.
• Mātulangana. A village assigned by Jetthatissa III. to Mahānāgavihāra. Cv.xliv.97.
• Mātularattha, Mātulajanapada. One of the provinces of Ceylon (Cv.xcv.22; xcvi.4; xcviii.65), the modern Mātale. The name is found only in the latest part of the Cūlavamsa. In the earlier parts it is called Mahātila (Cv.lxvi.71). Near by is Aloka vihāra.
• Mātulungaphaladāyaka Thera (Ap.ii.446). Evidently identical with Belatthasīsa (ThagA.i.67) or Surādha (ThagA.i.255).
• Mātuposaka Jātaka (No. 455)
• Mātuposaka Sutta. A brahmin of Sāvatthi visits the Buddha and, having told him that he supports his mother with food obtained from begging, asks if his action is worthy. The Buddha declares his action to be very good and one which will bring him birth in heaven. See also the Sāma Jātaka. S.i.181.
• Mātuposaks Rāma. See Rāma.
• Mātuputtika Sutta
• Mātuvelanga. A locality near Sāmagalla, where lived Kupikkalamahātissa Thera. Mhv.xxxiii.51.
• Mātuvihāra
• Māyā Sutta
• Māyā, Mahāmāyā
• Māyādhanu
• Māyādvāra. One of the gates of Pulatthipura. Cv.lxxiii.162.
• Māyāgeha
• Mayanti. A tank built by King Subha. v.l. Cayanti. Mhv.xxxv.94.
• Māyāvī. A jackal, for whose story see the Dabbapuppha Jātaka. He is identified with Upananda. J.iii.336.
• Māyetti. A village in Ceylon in the time of Jetthatissa III. Cv.xliv.90.
• Mayettikassapāvāsa. A monastic building in Ceylon. Jetthatissa gave to it the village of Sahannanagara (Cv.lxiv.100), and Aggabodhi III. that of Sālaggāma Cv.lxiv.121.
• Māyettikassapāvāsa. A vihāra in Ceylon, to which Jetthatissa III. gifted the village of Sahannanagara. Cv.xliv.100.
• Mayettivāpī. A tank, enlarged by Udaya II. Cv.Ii.130.
• Mayhaka Jātaka (No. 390)
• Mayhaka. A bird, see the Mayhaka Jātaka.
• Mayūra. One of the three palaces of Vidhurapandita. J.vi.289.
• Mayūra-parivena
• Mayūrapāsāna. A locality in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.73.
• Mayūrarūpattana. A place where Buddhaghosa once stayed with his colleague Buddhamitta. MA.ii.1029.