A king of Kāsi who conquered Kosala and killed its king Dīghīti and his queen, but later made peace with their son Dīghāvu, restoring his father’s kingdom and giving him his own daughter in marriage.

A king of the Assakas and friend of Reṇu, who received the Assaka kingdom with its capital at Potana when Mahāgovinda divided Jambudīpa among the seven friends.

The traditional dynastic name given in the Jātaka commentary to numerous kings of Bārāṇasī, and also used at times as a personal name, including for the husband of Piṅgiyānī who was later identified with Kuṇāla.

A son of the king of Kosala who entered the Order after witnessing the Buddha’s majesty and became an Arahant renowned for enduring a brahmin’s repeated abuse with patience, eventually converting him.

The founder of a dynasty of thirty-six kings who ruled at Hatthipura, whose ancestors had earlier ruled at Kapilanagara.

A king of Bārāṇasī, formerly a forest monk in Kassapa Buddha’s time, who developed loving-kindness on the battlefield after his unfaithful wife’s lover attacked his kingdom, and thereby became a Pacceka Buddha.

A brahmin who was the father of Kassapa Buddha.

A pupil of the wanderer Suppiya whose conversation with his teacher occasioned the Buddha’s teaching known as the Brahmajāla Sutta.

A monk sometimes credited with supplying the illustrative examples to the aphorisms of Kaccāyana’s Pāli grammar.

A cross-reference entry pointing to other bearers of this name, such as Ekaputtika, Catumāsika, Cūḷani, and Sāgara, and to the entry Brahmadatta-kumāra.