King of Magadha and son of Bindusāra who seized the throne at Pāṭaliputta, according to the chronicles by killing his rival brothers except Tissa, an act that earned him the epithet Caṇḍāsoka before his later transformation into a great Buddhist patron.

An alternate name for King Kālāsoka, referring the reader to that entry.

An alternate name for Vītāsoka, referring the reader to that entry.

A brahmin who lived in the time of the Buddha Kassapa and who provided eight meals a day for the monks, entrusting their distribution to his servant woman Bīraṇī.

Attendant of the Buddha Vipassī who, when once ill, was cured by a physician later reborn in this age as Tikicchaka Thera.

The future chief disciple of the coming Buddha Metteyya, identified in the Mahāvaṃsa with King Duṭṭhagāmaṇī.

A monk of Ñātikā whose death the Buddha, in reply to Ānanda’s question, confirmed as the final passing of an Arahant into nibbāna.

An alternate name referring the reader to the entry Anoma (7).

A mountain near the Himalayan region where the divine architect Vissakamma built a hermitage during the time of the Buddha Sumedha.

A nun of Nātika whose death Ānanda reported to the Buddha, who declared she had been spontaneously reborn in the Pure Abodes, destined never to return.

One of the two chief female disciples of Maṅgala Buddha.