Pali Proper Names - M -

• Medakathalikā
• Medatalumpa
• Medhankara
• Medhārāma. The park wherein Sumedha Buddha died. Bu.xii.31.
• Megha
• Meghabba (v.l. Meghava). A king of twenty six kappas ago, a previous birth of Miñjavatamsakiya Thera. Ap.i.216.
• Meghalatā. Among the decorations of the Relic Chamber of the Mahā Thūpa, are mentioned "Meghalatā vijjukumāri," which is explained in the Mahāvamsa Tīkā (p. 549) as "Meghalatānāma vijjukumāriyo."
• Meghamāla. A robber of great fame. DA.i.89; MA.ii.688.
• Meghavana. See Mahāmeghavana.
• Meghavanna. A devaputta of Udumbarapabbata. He was once a very poor man of Hallolagāma and had given alms at Nīlapabbatavihāra. His wife was Candamukhī. He once visited with his wife Maliyadeva Thera in Candamukhalena. Ras.ii.125f
• Meghavannābhaya
• Meghiya
• Mejjha
• Mejjhārañña. See Mejjha.
• Mekalā. Name of a tribe, occurring in a nominal list. Ap.ii.359; the reading is, however, very uncertain.
• Mekhala
• Mekhaladāyikā. An arahant Therī. Ninety four kappas ago she offered her mekhalā for the restoration of the thūpa of Siddhattha Buddha (Ap.ii.513f). She is probably identical with Mettikā Therī. ThigA.35.
• Melajina Thera
• Melamangala. A district in South India, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.209 (211).
• Melamātā. A she goat. See the Pūtimamsa Jātaka.
• Mendaka
• Mendaka Jātaka. Another name for Mendakapañha.
• Mendakapañha
• Mendasira (v.l. Mendasīsa)
• Mendissara
• Mereliya. A district in Ceylon, where Dāthāpabhuti, father of Silākāla, lived for some time. Cv.xxxix.45.
• Meru. See Sineru.
• Merukandara
• Merumajjara. A forest in Ceylon, where King Asiggāhaka Sanghatissa fled with his son and minister after his defeat by Moggallāna III. Cv.xliv.21.
• Methula. A Pacceka Buddha whose name appears in a nominal list. M.iii.70; ApA.i.106.
• Methuna Sutta
• Metta Sutta
• Mettā Sutta
• Mettā Therī
• Mettā Vagga. The first chapter of the Attha Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iv.150 72.
• Mettagū pucchā and Sutta. See Mettagū.
• Mettagū Thera
• Mettaji Thera
• Mettākathā. The fourth chapter of the Yuganandha Vagga of the Patisambhidā-Magga.
• Mettākāyikā. A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.259.
• Metteyya Thera. An arahant, friend of Tissa of the Tissa Metteyya Sutta. His personal name, too, was Tissa, but he was better known by his gotta name of Metteyya (SNA.ii.536). In a verse in the Suttanipāta (SN. vs. 814) he is referred to as Tissa Metteyya.
• Metteyya. The future Buddha.
• Metteyyapañha (A.iii.399). Evidently another name for Tissa-metteyya pucchā (q.v.).
• Mettikā Therī
• Mettiya Thera. One of the six leaders of the Chabbaggiyā.
• Mettiyā. A nun who, at the instigation of the Mettiyabhummajakā, charged Dabba Mallaputta with having violated her chastity. She was expelled from the Order for this offence.
• Mettiyabhummajakā
• Micchā Sutta. Wrong views arise because of clinging to body, feelings, etc., because they are impermanent. S.iii.184.
• Micchāditthi Sutta 1. Wrong view is abandoned by realizing that eye, objects, seeing, etc., are all impermanent. S.iv.147.
• Micchāditthi Sutta 2. See Makkhali Sutta.
• Micchatta Sutta 1. Wrong views, etc., are perversion (micchatta) and their opposites perfection (sammatta). S.v.17.
• Micchatta Sutta 2. Perversion leads to failure (virādhanā) and not to success (ārādhanā) because it encourages evil states. A.v.211f.
• Micchatta Vagga. The third chapter of the Magga Samyutta. S.v.17 23.
• Miga. A king of the two kappas ago, a previous birth of Tinasanthāradāyaka. Ap.i.122; the name is probably Migasammata.
• Migācira
• Migagāma vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, founded by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.41.
• Migajāla
• Migajālena Sutta
• Migājina
• Migaketu. A king of fifty four kappas ago, a former birth of Thitañjaliya Thera. Ap.i.123.
• Migalandika
• Migālopa Jātaka (No. 381)
• Migālopa. See the Migālopa Jātaka.
• Migaludda petavatthu
• Migapathaka. A  village near Macchikāsanda, behind Ambātakavana. It was a tributary village of Citta-Gahapati. S.iv.281; SA.iii.93
• Migapotaka Jātaka (No. 372)
• Migapotaka Vagga.-The fifth section of the Rasavāhinī.
• Migāra
• Migāramātā. A name of Visākhā. See Migāra (1).
• Migāramātupāsāda
• Migāranattā. See Sālha.
• Migāraparivena. See Migāra (4).
• Migasālā Sutta
• Migasālā. A woman follower of the Buddha. She was the daughter of Pūrana, chamberlain of Pasenadi, and niece of Isidatta. A.iii.347; A.v.137.
• Migasammatā. A river which rose in Himavā and flowed into the Ganges. On its bank was the hermitage of Sāma. J.vi.72, etc.
• Migasammata. See Miga.
• Migasinga. See Isisinga.
• Migasira
• Migasīsa. See Migasira.
• Mīhābhaya Thera. An Elder who never lay down on a bed to sleep. The people, seeing this, made for him a seat with a back support and a hand support on either side. Vsm.79.
• Mihiranabibbila. A village in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.232, 271.
• Milakkhā or Milakkhukā. The name given to the people of non-Ariyan origin, the Mlecchas. E.g., D.iii.264; A.i.35, etc. Their language is called Milakkhabhāsā.
• Milakkha Tissa Thera
• Milānakkhetta. A locality near Pulatthipura, mentioned in the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.176.
• Mīlhaka Sutta. A monk who prides himself on the fact that he gets great gains is like a dung beetle who boasts that he is stuffed with dung. v.l. Pīlhaka. S.ii.228.
• Milinda
• Milindapañha
• Minelapupphiya. See Vinelapupphiya.
• Mingala. One of the great fishes that live in the deep ocean. J.v.462.
• Miñjavatamsakiya Thera. An arahant. Thirty one kappas ago he made offerings at the Bodhi tree of Sikhī Buddha. Twenty six kappas ago he was a king named Meghabbha. Ap.i.216f.
• Missā. A name for Alambūsā (q.v.). The scholiast explains (J.v.153) that it is a generic name for women   "purise kilesamissanena missanato."
• Missakā. A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.260.
• Missakapabbata
• Missakauyyāna. A park in Ceylon, laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.7.
• Missakavana. A park in Tāvatimsa (J.vi.278; Dvy. 194,195; Mtu.ii.451). It is generally mentioned together with Nandana, Phārusaka and Cittalatāvana. E.g., Sp.i.164; Vibhā.439; Vsm.425.
• Missakesī. A nymph (accharā), a heavenly musician of Sakka. Vv.ii.1; iv.12; VvA. 93, 96, 211; see also p. 372f.
• Mita. A stronghold in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.134.
• Mitacintī Jātaka (No. 114)
• Mitacintī. A fish, see the Mitacintī Jātaka.
• Mithilā
• Mithiluyyāna. A park in Mithilā where Padumuttara Buddha preached his first sermon. Bu.xi.23; BuA.159.
• Mitta
• Mittā
• Mittagandhaka
• Mittaka. See Mittavindaka.
• Mittakālī, Mittakālikā Therī
• Mittāmitta Jātaka (197, 473)
• Mittasena
• Mittavinda Jātaka (82, 104, 369)
• Mittavindaka
• Mittenamaccā Sutta
• Mittinna. The chief of the monks at Asokārāma in Pātaliputta. He came with one hundred and sixty thousand monks to the Foundation Ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa. Mhv.xxix.36; Dpv.xix. 5.
• Moggali. A brahmin of Pātaliputta, father of Moggaliputta Tissa. He was converted by Siggava. Mhv.v.102, 133.
• Moggalī. The name of Mahā-Moggallāna’s mother. ThagA.ii.93; AA.i.88; DhA.i.73; but SNA.i.326 calls her Moggallāni.
• Moggaliputta Tissa Thera. President of the Third Council.
• Moggalla. A man in the retinue of King Eleyya. He was a follower of Uddaka-Rāmaputta. A.ii.187; AA, ii.554.
• Moggallāna (1-9)
• Moggallāna Samyutta. The fortieth chapter of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.262 81.
• Moggallāna Sutta
• Moggallāna vihāra. A monastery built by Moggallāna III. in Kārapitthi. Cv.xliv.50.
• Moggallāni. See Moggalī.
• Mogharāja Thera
• Mogharāja-mānava-pucchā
• Mohavicchedanī. An Abhidhamma treatise by Kassapa Thera. Gv. 60, 70; Svd. 1221; Sās. 69; P.L.C. 160, 179.
• Molinī. An old name for Benares. See the Sankha Jātaka.
• Moliya Phagguna Thera
• Moliyagāma. A village. The story is told of a monk who went there for alms. AA.i.398.
• Moliyasīvaka. A Paribbājaka.
• Monasīhakā. A totemistic clan of the Singhalese. They were employed by Mitta against Bhuvanekabāhu I. Cv.xc.7; see. Cv.Trs.i.29, n.2.
• Moneyya Sutta. On the three perfections of a saint (moneyyāni), perfection of body, speech and mind. A.i.273.
• Mora Jātaka (No. 159)
• Moragalla. The later name of Sāmagalla. MT. 616.
• Moragīva. A palace occupied by Asoka. Ras.i.93.
• Morahatthiya Thera. An arahant. Another name for Senaka Thera (q.v.). Ap.ii.403.
• Morakavāpi. See Moravāpi.
• Moramandapa. A pavilion erected by Parakkamabāhu I. in his Dīpuyyāna. Cv.lxxiii.118.
• Moranāla. See Gonaravīya.
• Moranivāpa Sutta
• Moranivāpa. A grove in Veluvana at Rājagaha.
• Moraparitta. One of the Parittas. The name is given to the spells found in the Mora Jātaka. J.ii.33f.
• Moraparivena. see Mayūra parivena
• Moravanka. One of the four villages given by Parakkamabāhu I. for the maintenance of the parivena which he built for Medhankara. Cv.xc.87.
• Moravāpi. A tank in Ceylon.
• Moriyā
• Moriya. A very pious brahmin of Macala. He and his wife Senā gave alms till all their wealth was exhausted, but a deity gave him wealth again. Ras.i.86f.
• Moriyajanapada.   See Dhammagutta (2)
• Moriyarattha. A district in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon. It was once the residence of several families of Lambakannas. Cv.lxix.13.
• Mūasālā. A village in Rohana, where Kitti (afterwards Vijayabāhu I.), lived in his youth. Cv.lvii.44.
• Mucala. A legendary king, descendant of Mahāsammata (Mhv.ii.3; Dpv.iii.6). He was son of Upacaraka. MT. 125; Mtu.i.348.
• Mucalinda
• Mucalinda Vagga. The second chapter of the Udāna.
• Mucalinda-vana. A forest tract in Nāgadīpa; in it was the Mahānāma lake. Ras.ii.18; see also Nāgā (7).
• Mucelapattana. Perhaps a place in Ceylon, where Vohārika Tissa instituted alms (Mhv.xxxvi.30). The MT. p.661f, however, says that Mucelapattana was a metal boat in which various gifts were kept for distribution among the monks.
• Mucela-vihāra. A monastery in Tissavaddhamānaka, in the eastern province of Ceylon. It was built by King Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.84; MT. 652.
• Mucelupatthāna. A building in Anurādhapura, where gifts were regularly distributed to the monks. Mhv.xxxiv.65; MT. 633.
• Muddhaphālanapañha
• Muditā Sutta. The idea of joy, if cultivated, leads to great bliss. S.v.131.
• Mudita Thera
• Muditā. Daughter of Cadakumāra, son of Vasavattī. J.vi.134.
• Mudukā. A celebrated musician or, perhaps, a divine musical instrument. Vv.ii.1; VvA. 94, 211; see also p. 372.
• Mudulakkhana Jātaka (No. 66)
• Mudulakkhanā. Queen of Brahmadatta. See the Mudulakkhana Jātaka, above.
• Mudupāni Jātaka (No. 262)
• Mudusītala. Thirty seven kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, previous births of Arāmadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.251.
• Mūgapakkha Jātaka (No. 538)
• Mūgapakkha. Another name for Temiyakumāra, son of the king of Kāsī. See the Mūgapakkha Jātaka.
• Mūgasenāpati vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon built by Aggabodhi I. who gave for its maintenance the village of Lajjaka. Cv.xlii.22.
• Muggagāma Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. See Vilasa.
• Muggāyatana-rattha.-A district in Ceylon. Ras.ii.181.
• Muhunnaruggāma. A village which formed a stronghold of the Colas in the time of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lviii.42.
• Mujalinda. A king of Benares, who went to heaven as a reward for his great sacrifices. J.vi.9.02; cp. Mucalinda (3).
• Mukhamattasāra. A Pāli grammatical work by Sāgara or Gunasāgara of Pagan, written at the request of King Kyocvā's preceptor. There is a tīkā on it ascribed to Sāgara. Sās. 76; Gv. 63, 67, 73; Bode, op. cit., 25.
• Mukheluvana
• Mukkhamattadīpani, also called Nyāsa. A commentary on the Kaccāyanayoga by Vimalabuddhi, a monk of Ceylon according to some, of Pagan according to others. There is a tīkā on the work, also ascribed to a Vimalabuddhi Thera. Gv. 60, 10; Bode, op. cit., 21.
• Mūla Sutta 1. When a man is overcome by gains and flattery, the root of good kamma is extirpated in him. S.ii.240.
• Mūla Sutta 2. See Mūlaka Sutta.
• Mūla. A minister of King Vattagāmani. He built the Mūlavokāsa vihāra. Mhv.xxxix.89; Dpv.xix. 18, 19.
• Mūladeva. A robber, mentioned as having great power. MA.ii.688; DA.i.89.
• Mūlaka Sutta
• Mūlakadeva. See Alakadeva.
• Mūlānagāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.16.
• Mūlanāgasenāpati vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon round which Vohārakatissa built a wall. Mhv.xxxvi.35.
• Mūlapariyāya Jātaka (No. 245)
• Mūlapariyāya Sutta. The first sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya.
• Mūlasikkhā
• Mūlasoma vihāra. A monastery in which Anuruddha, author of the Abhidhammattha sangaha, was an incumbent. P.L.C. 168.
• Mūlatīkā. A sub Commentary on the Abhidhamma Pitaka written by Ananda Thera of Ceylon (Gv. 60, 69; Svd. 1217). It was so called because it was the first of the tīkās (Sās.33). The anutīkā on this is called the Līnatthavannanā. Gv. 60.
• Mūlavārikavāpi. A tank in Ceylon, repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.49.
• Mūlavokāsa vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, built by the minister Mūla. Mhv.xxxiii.89.
• Mūluppalavāpi
• Muluttagāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.6.
• Munāli. The Bodhisatta born as a gamester (dhutta). He abused a Pacceka Buddha, named Surabhi, and this was why when he became Buddha he was insulted by Sundarikā. Ap.i.299; UdA.264.
• Munaru. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.48.
• Munayadha. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.146; lxxvii.40.
• Munda
• Mundagangā. A village in Ceylon, near Māliyaunna vihāra. It was the residence of Sāliya, in his previous birth as artisan. MT. 605.
• Mundagutta. A resident of Tissambatittha. His wife was Tissa (10). Ras.ii.31.
• Mundakā. Name of a tribe, mentioned in a nominal list. Ap.ii.359.
• Mundanigama. A village on the slopes of the Vindhyā Mountains. It was the residence of a lay devotee named Mahāmunda. DhA.iv.128.
• Mundannānankonda. A place in South India, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.212.
• Mundarāja Vagga. The fifth chapter of the Pañcaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iii.45 62.
• Mundikāputta. See Mandikāputta.
• Mundikkāra. A place in South India, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi. 208, 211, 267, 270.
• Mundiya. See Mandissa.
• Mundrannaddhāna. A place in South India mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.296.
• Muni Sutta
• Munika Jātaka (No.30)
• Munika. A pig; see the Munika Jātaka.
• Muñjakesī. One of the two horses of King Udena; it was capable of traveling one hundred leagues a day. DhA.i.196.
• Muraja. An inhabitant of Rammavatī. He was a previous birth of Bodhi upatthāyaka Thera. Ap.i.194.
• Musā Sutta. A man guilty of lying is born in purgatory. A.ii.83.
• Musā Vagga. The first section of the Pācittiya of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Musāvāda Sutta. Few are they that abstain from lying, many they that do not. S.v.469.
• Mūsīkā
• Mūsika Jātaka (No. 373)
• Mūsila
• Musīla. See Mūsila.
• Mutasīva
• Mutiyangana
• Muttā
• Muttākara. A locality on the sea coast of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.63; see. Cv. Trs.i.292, n. 3.
• Muttāpabbata. A village in Ceylon, given by Kittisirirājasīha for the maintenance of festivals. Cv.c.43.
• Mutthasati Sutta 1. A woman who is muddle headed is born in purgatory. S.iv. 242.
• Mutthasati Sutta 2. Five disadvantages to one who falls asleep forgetfully, without self possession. A.iii.251.
• Mutthika. A wrestler employed by Kamsa to destroy the Andhakavenhudāsaputtā. He was, however, killed by Baladeva and reborn as a Yakkha in Kālamattiya Forest. There, later, he ate up Baladeva "like a radish bulb." J.iv.81f., 88.
• Mutthipūjaka Thera. An arahant. In the time of Sumedha Buddha, while the Buddha was practicing austerities, he gave him a handful of girinela flowers. Twenty three kappas ago he was a king named Sunela. Ap.i.201.
• Mutthipupphiya Thera
• Mutti Sutta. The Buddha teaches release and the path thereto. S.iv.372.
• Muttima. The Pali name for Martaban in Burma. Bode, op. cit., 33.
• Muttolamba. Probably the name of a pāsāda repaired by Dappula. Cv.xlv.56; see Cv. Trs.i.94, n.4.
• Muvarāyara. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.140, 216.