A monk devoted to expounding the Pāṭimokkha rules who, as a monk of ten years’ standing, was appointed to assign seating for the elders at the Second Buddhist Council.

A wanderer at whose instigation the Buddha taught the monks about the difference between Dhamma and what is not Dhamma.

A brahmin who was the Bodhisatta in the time of the past Buddha Sobhita.

A general of the Licchavis and follower of the Buddha who, reborn in Tāvatiṃsa immediately after death, visited the Buddha to refute a naked ascetic’s false claim that he had instead been reborn in hell.

A cross-reference entry pointing to the entry on Ajita-mānava.

An elder, probably the same figure known elsewhere as Ajita-mānava, who lit a lamp before the past Buddha Padumuttara and, as a result, enjoyed heavenly happiness for tens of thousands of world-cycles before becoming a disciple of Bāvarī and an Arahant.

The lay name of the future Buddha Metteyya in his final birth, before attaining Enlightenment.

A Pacceka Buddha who lived ninety-one world-cycles ago and was once given mangoes by the elder Dāsaka in a previous birth.

A brahmin who offered flowers to the past Buddha Sikhī, identified as a previous birth of the elder Citakapūjaka; the same name also labels a discourse the Buddha taught to a wanderer named Ajita on the difference between Dhamma and Adhamma.

A poor brahmin’s son of Sāvatthi, so named for having been wrapped in antelope skin at birth, who joined the Order after witnessing the donation of Jetavana and, despite being long overlooked and despised for past misdeeds, eventually attained Arahantship.