Pali Proper Names - T -

• Tabbārattha.-A district in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon (Cv.lxix.8).
• Tabbāvāpī.-A tank in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon (Cv.lxviii.3).
• Tacasāra Jātaka (No.368)
• Tacchakā.-A class of Nāgas present at the Mahāsamaya. D.ii.258.
• Tacchasūkara Jātaka (No.492)
• Tadadhimutta.-A Pacceka Bhuddha. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Tadanga Sutta.-Kāludāyi asks Ananda, at the Ghositārāma, what is meant by Tadanganibbāna, and Ananda answers. A.iv.454.
• Taddhigāma.-A chieftain of Rohana, subdued by Parakkamabāhu I. He held the title of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxv.180.
• Tagara.-A city in the time of Dhammadassī Buddha; it was the capital of King Sañjaya. BuA.p.183.
• Tagarasikhī
• Takka Jātaka (No.63)
• Takka. A city in India twelve leagues from Kāvīrapattana. It was the residence of monks. Ras.ii.108.
• Takkala Jātaka (No.446)
• Takkambila.-A pāsāda attached to a vihāra in Rohana. It was repaired by Dappula, who also installed monks there. Cv.xlv.56.
• Takkapandita.-The name given to the Bodhisatta in the Takka Jātaka.
• Takkarā.-A city in the time of Sumana Buddha. ThagA.i.303; Ap.ii.416.
• Takkārika.-See Takkāriya below.
• Takkāriya Jātaka (v.l. Takkārika) (No.481)
• Takkāriya.-The Bodhisatta as chaplain to the king of Benares. See Takkāriya Jātaka.
• Takkaru Jātaka.-See Kakkaru Jātaka.
• Takkasilā
• Takkasilā Jātaka.-Apparently another name for the Telapatta Jātaka. See J.i.970; DhA.iv.83.
• Takkivīmamsi.-The name of a class of brahmins who might be described as sophists and researchers. M.ii.211.
• Takkola.-A town mentioned in the Milindapañha (p.359) as a great centre of trade.
• Tālacatukka.-A place included in the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra. Mbv.135.
• Tālacchiggalūpama Sutta.-It is said that, after hearing this sutta, Abhayarājakumāra became a Sotāpanna (ThagA.i.83). The sutta is probably that of the turtle and the floating trap. Cp. M.iii.169, and Chiggala Sutta, S.v.455.
• Taladilla, Talandilla.-A port in the Pandu kingdom, in South India. Lankāpura landed there and captured it. Cv.1xxvi.88, 92.
• Tālaggallakavāpi.-A tank in Ceylon repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.66.
• Talākatthalī, Talātthala.-A locality not far from Pulatthipura. It had a fortress which was once occupied by Lankādhinātha Rakkha. Cv.lxx.107, 112, 174.
• Tālakkhettagāma.-A village in the Malaya district of Ceylon. Cv.lxx.10.
• Talanga
• Talangarasamuddapabbata. Mentioned in the Rasavāhinī (ii. 50) as the residence of Mahādhammadinna. It is probably the same as Talangara (q.v.).
• Talanīgāma-tittha.-A ford across the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.lxxii.4.
• Tālaphaliya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he saw the Pacceka Buddha Sataramsī and gave him a palm-fruit (Ap.ii.447). He is probably identical with Sambulakaccāyana. ThagA.i.314.
• Tālapitthika-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon, where Gopakasīvali built a cetiya. VibhA. p.156.
• Tālaputa
• Talaputa.-See Tālaputa above.
• Talatādevī
• Tālavana.-See Nālapana ??.
• Tālavantadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-two kappas ago he gave a fan made of palm leaf to the Buddha Tissa. Sixty-three kappas ago he became king several times under the name of Mahārāma. Ap.i.211.
• Tālavatthu-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. It was restored by Aggabodhi V., who also gave to it the village of Pannabhatta. He appears to have renamed the village Mahāsena, probably after its original founder. Cv.xlviii.8; Cv.Trs.i.111, n.1.
• Tālavelimagga
• Tālayūrunādu.-A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.261.
• Tālipabbata.-The brahmin who accompanied Mahā Arittha on his embassy from Ceylon to the court of Asoka. MT.302.
• Tālissara.-A descendant of King Dīpankara, who ruled in Takkasilā. Dpv.iii.32.
• Tamālapupphiya Thera.-An arahant. In a previous birth he owned a vimāna with eighty thousand golden pillars. He offered a tamāla flower to Sikhī Buddha. Twenty kappas ago he was a king called Candatittha. Ap.i.197.
• Tāmalinda.-One of the four companions of Chapata and a founder of the Sīhalasangha in Burma (Sās., p.65). He later founded a sect of his own. Bode: op. cit.24.
• Tāmalitti (Tāmalitthi)
• Tamba
• Tambadāthika
• Tambagāma.-A village in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.90.
• Tambala.-A village, probably in Rohana, where a battle was fought between Dāthopatissa and Mana. Cv.xlv.78.
• Tambalagāma.-A village in Rohana, once the headquarters of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lviii.10, 38; see also Cv.Trs.i.202, n.5.
• Tambapanni
• Tambapannī.-An irrigation channel built by Parakkamabāhu I. It flowed northwards from the Ambala tank. Cv.lxxix.50.
• Tambapittha.-A village seven leagues to the east of Anurādhapura, on the banks of the Mahāvālukanadi. When Dutthagāmani made plans to build the Mahā Thūpa, nuggets of gold appeared in Tambapittha. Mhv.xxviii.16.
• Tambapupphiya
• Tambasumana
• Tambavitthika.-A village in Ceylon, where the soldiers of Vijayabāhu I. killed the Cola king. Cv.lviii.21; see also Cv.Trs.i.203, n.3.
• Tam-jīvam-tam-sarīram Sutta.-One of the views which are held in the world, owing to the existence of the khandhas and the clinging to them. S.iii.215.
• Tamo Sutta.-The four types of people found in the world - those who, being in darkness, are bound for darkness, those who are in darkness, but are bound for light, etc. A.ii.85; cf. Pugg. p.51; and S.i.93, where the sutta is addressed to Pasenadi.
• Tamonuda.-A king of ninety-one kappas ago, a previous birth of Punnāgapupphiya. Ap.i.180; ThagA.i.213.
• Tamo-tama Sutta. A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 49) to the Puggala Sutta (3). See also Tamo Sutta above.
• Tāna Sutta.-The Buddha preaches the Refuge and the way thereto. S.iv.372.
• Tanagaluka.-A village in Rohana. Cv.lxxiv.165.
• Tanasīva
• Tanaveli-vihāra.-A vihāra erected in Bījagāma by King Mahallaka-Nāga. v.l. Cānavela. Mhv.xxxv.125.
• Tandulanāli Jātaka (No.5)
• Tandulapāladvāra.-One of the gates of Rājagaha. Near the gate was the residence of the brahmin Dhānañjāni. M.ii.185; MA.ii.795.
• Tandulapatta.-A village in Rohana. Cv.lxxiv.165.
• Tāngipperumāla.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara (Cv.lxxvi.145). He was later won over by Lankāpura. Ibid., 190.
• Tanguttavanka-parivena.-A monastery, probably in Ceylon; the residence of Ratthapāla, author of the original of the Rasavāhinī. P.L.C.224. The Parivena was attached to the Mahāvihāra. Ras.i.1.
• Tanhā Sutta
• Tanhā Vagga.-The twenty-fourth chapter of the Dhammapada.
• Tanhā
• Tanhakkhaya Sutta
• Tanhankara.-One of the four Buddhas born in the same kappa as Dipankara. J.i.44; Bu.xxvii.1.
• Tanhāsankhaya Sutta.-See Cūla° and Mahā°.
• Tankitamañca
• Tankuttara.-A Damila chieftain, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.144.
• Tannarugāma. A village near Pulatthipura, the scene of several conflicts between the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. and those of his enemies. Cv.ixx.313, 316, 319; lxxii.175.
• Tannitittha.-A village in Ceylon, near Ambagāma and Antaravitthi. Cv.lxx.322.
• Tantavāyikacātikā.-A village assigned by Potthakuttha to the padhānaghara at Mātambiya. Cv.xlvi.20.
• Tapakannika.-See Tavakannika.
• Tāpana
• Tapana.-A Niraya. Beings born there are pierced by heated stakes and they remain transfixed, motionless. J.v.266, 271, 275.
• Tāpana.-See Tapana above.
• Tapassī.-An envoy sent by the king of Rāmañña to Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxvi.23.
• Tapassu (Tapussa) Sutta
• Tapassu, Tapussa
• Tapodā
• Tapodakandarā.-See Tapodārāma.
• Tapodārāma
• Tapodāvātthu.-The story of Moggallāna explaining the reason for the warmth of the water of the Tapodā and of the refusal of the monks to believe him (Vin.iii.108; Sp.ii.512).
• Tapo-kammañca Sutta.-As the Buddha sits under the Ajapālanigrodha tree, soon after the Enlightenment, rejoicing in freedom from toil, Māra approaches and tells him that his purity is but a delusion. The Buddha rebukes him and proves him to be wrong. S.i.103.
• Tapovana.-A group of monasteries near Anurādhapura inhabited by the Pamsukūlikas. They lay in the forest district to the west of the city. Cv.lii.22; liii.14ff; also Cv.Trs.i.163, n.8.
• Tapussa.-See Tapassu.
• Taracchā
• Taracchavāpi.-A tank built by Mahānāga. Mhv.xxii.4.
• Taraniya Thera
• Tarara.-A king of fifty-eight kappas ago, a former birth of Khadiravaniya Revata. Ap.i.51; ThagA.i.109.
• Tārukkha
• Taruna Sutta.-In him who contemplates the enjoyment of what makes for enfettering, craving grows and a consequent mass of dukkha, like a sapling which is well tended; but in him who contemplates misery in all enslaving things, craving, etc., is destroyed. S.ii.88f.
• Tasinā Sutta.-On the three thirsts - for sensual delights, for becoming and for ceasing to become - and the way to get rid of them (S.v.58).
• Tassa-Sutam Sutta
• Tatavāpi.-A locality near the Kālavāpi. There was a fortress there where Gokanna suffered defeat. Cv.lxx.165.
• Tatha Sutta 1.-There are four things that are true and unalterable - the facts of Dukkha, its arising, its cessation, the path thereto. S.v.430.
• Tatha Sutta 2.-The Four Noble Truths. Same as above. S.v.435.
• Tatha.-A Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.69; ApA.i.106.
• Tathāgata
• Tathāgata Sutta.-A group of suttas in which the simile of the Tathāgata, being the chief of all creatures, is repeated. S.v.41ff; repeated at v.135.
• Tathāgatena-vutta Sutta
• Tathāgatuppatti.  A Pāli work by Ñānagambhīra. Gv. 62, 72.
• Tatojasi.-A messenger of Vessavana. D.iii.201.
• Tatolā, Tatotalā, Tattalā.-Messengers of Vessavana. D.iii.201.
• Tavakannīka, Tavannika, Tavakinnoka
• Tāvatimsa
• Tāyana
• Tāyana Sutta.-Records the visit of Tāyana to the Buddha.
• Tayodhamma Jātaka (No.58)
• Tebhātika-Jatilā.-Three brothers, Uruvela-Kassapa, Gayā-Kassapa and Nadī-Kassapa. For their story see Uruvela-Kassapa.
• Tejasi.-One of the messengers employed by Kuvera. D.iii.201.
• Tejodipa.-A disciple of Tilokaguru and author of a tīkā on the Paritta. Sās., p.115.
• Tekicchakārī (°kāni) Thera
• Tekula (?).-A thera who, with his brother Yamelu, asked from the Buddha permission to translate the Buddha's teachings into Sanskrit. Vin.ii.139.
• Tela.-One of the ambassadors sent by Devānampiyatissa to Asoka. v.l. Malla. MT.302.
• Telagāma.-A canal, the revenue from which was given by Aggabodhi IX. to the monks for their rice gruel. Cv.xlix.89.
• Telakandarikā.-A pious and generous woman, who gave ghee in large quantities to monks. She is mentioned in a story illustrating how monks will sometimes boast of their patrons. VbhA.483; Vsm.27.
• Telakāni Thera
• Telakatāhagāthā
• Telamakkhiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he rubbed oil on the vedikā of Siddhattha Buddha's Bodhi-tree. Twenty-four kappas ago he was a king named Succhavi. Ap.i.230f.
• Telapakkanijjhara.-A weir forming part of the irrigation work carried out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.66.
• Telapatta Jātaka (No.96)
• Telappanāli
• Telavāhā.-A river in the Serivarattha, and near Andhapura (J.i.111).
• Telovāda Jātaka (No.246)
• Telumapāli.-A place through which the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra passed. Mbv.135.
• Temiya Jātaka.-See Mūgapakkha Jātaka.
• Temiya.-The name of the Bodhisatta in the Mūgapakkha Jātaka. He was so called because on the day of his birth there were great rains throughout the kingdom and he was born wet. J.vi.3.
• Tenkongu.-A locality in South India. Cv.lxxvi.288; lxxvii.67.
• Tennavallappalla.-A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.222, 231.
• Tesakuna Jātaka (No.521)
• Tevijja Sutta
• Tevijja-Vacchagotta Sutta
• Thakuraka.-The chief of the āriyakkhattayodhā. Cv.xc.16, 24, 27.
• Thalayūru.-See Athalayūru.
• Thambāropaka Thera
• Thāna Sutta
• Thānakonkana.-A garden in Ceylon, laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.11.
• Thapana Sutta.-Ten reasons for establishing the Pātimokkha. A.v.70f.
• Thapatayo Sutta
• Thera Sutta
• Thera Vagga
• Thera.-Name of a monk in Rājagaha. He lived in solitude, the virtues of which state he extolled. Hearing this, the Buddha sent for him and taught him how the solitary life could be perfected in detail (S.ii.282f).
• Theragāthā
• Therambalaka Vihāra.-A monastery built by Sakka. Dāthāsena lived there. Ras.ii.109.
• Therambatthala
• Theranāma Sutta.-Records the story of the Elder named Thera. S.ii.282f.
• Therānambandhamālaka.-A locality in Anurādhapura where Uttiya erected the funeral pyre of Mahinda. Later he erected a thūpa there over half the remains (Mhv.xx.42f).
• Therapañha Sutta.-See Sāriputta Sutta.
• Therāpassaya-parivena.-A building erected on the spot where Mahinda used to meditate, leaning against a support. Mhv.xv.210.
• Theraputtābhaya
• Theraputtābhaya.-The Rasavāhinī (ii.92f.) contains a story of his youth when he was a novice in Kappakandara-vihāra. Gothayimbara visited the place and ate the coconuts, throwing the husks about. The novice beat him soundly.
• Theravāda
• Therīgāthā
• Therikā
• Theriya-parampāra.-The name given to the succession of Theravāda monks. Mhv.v.1.
• Thitañjaliya
• Thiti Sutta
• Thomadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-one kappas ago he was a deva, and having heard Vipassī Buddha preach, paid him homage. Ap.i.226.
• Thūlathana
• Thullakotthita
• Thulla-Nandā
• Thulla-Tissā
• Thulla-Tissa.-See Tissa (14).
• Thulū.-See Bumū.
• Thūna
• Thūneyyakā.-The people of Thūna.
• Thūpāraha Sutta.-There are four persons worthy of a thūpa - a Buddha, a Pacceka Buddha, a Buddha's disciple and a Cakkavatti. A.ii.245.
• Thūpārāma
• Thūpasikha (Thūpasikhara).-Ninety-four kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, all previous births of Thambhāropaka (Paripunnaka). Ap.i.171; ThagA.i.190.
• Thūpavamsa.-A Pāli poem written by Vācissara. It has sixteen chapters, the last eight of which contain a description of the erection of the Mahā Thūa by Dutthagāmani at Anurādhapura. The work probably belongs to the twelfth century. P.L.C.216f.
• Thūpavitthi-vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon built by Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.48.
• Thusa Jātaka (No.338)
• Thusavāpi.-A tank near Pulatthipura. Cv.l.73.
• Thusavatthi.-A village in Ceylon where king Buddhadāsa effected a miraculous cure (Cv.xxxvii.124f). It was near Anurādhapura, and the sīmā of the Mahāvihāra passed through it (Mbv.136).