A headman of Sāvatthi to whom the Buddha explained why some people are called wrathful and others kindly, according to whether they yield to passion and resentment.

Another name for Pañcālacaṇḍa.

A king who was one of the chief lay supporters of the Buddha Koṇḍañña.

The chief lay supporter of the Buddha Sikhī, though the commentary calls him Nanda instead.

One of the palaces occupied by the Buddha Sumana during his last life as a layman.

The son of a wealthy brahmin named Sucindara, who together with his friend Subhadda attained Arahantship at the first assembly of the Buddha Koṇḍañña.

The moon, regarded as a deva; also known as Candimā.

The Bodhisatta in a past life as a kinnara, whose story of ill-fated love has its own dedicated Jātaka.

A mountain in the Himalayas, home to a kinnara and his wife, elsewhere called Candaka or Candapassa.

A brahmin, the father of Vidhurapaṇḍita.

Another of the palaces occupied by the Buddha Sumana during his last life as a layman.

A younger brother of Sāriputta who joined the monastic Order.

The son of the brahmin Paṇḍula, who later became chaplain to King Paṇḍukābhaya.

A cross-reference to Candakumāra.

Wife of Sudinna and mother of Piyadassī Buddha, also called Sucandā in the Buddhavaṃsa.

One of the two chief female disciples of Vipassī Buddha.

A kinnarī, wife of the Bodhisatta Canda, whose story is told in the Candakinnara Jātaka; also called Candī.

Wife of King Mahāpatāpa of Bārāṇasī and mother of Dhammapāla, identified with Mahā Pajāpatī Gotamī, her story told in the Cūḷa Dhammapāla Jātaka.

Daughter of the Madda king and chief consort of the Bārāṇasī ruler, mother of Mūgapakkha (Temiya), her story told in the Mūgapakkha Jātaka.

Chief consort of Candakumāra and daughter of the Pañcāla king, whose act of truth saved her husband from death; identified with Rāhula’s mother.

Chief consort of Sutasoma, identified with Rāhula’s mother.

An arahant who, orphaned and impoverished after her brahmin family died in a plague, was fed and taught by Paṭācāra after begging from door to door, and soon renounced the world and attained Arahantship.

A kinnarī-maiden whom King Brahmadatta fell in love with, favouring her over his own wife Asitābhū.

The deity whose celestial abode is the moon, invoked by those desiring children, whom the Buddha once rescued when the asura Rāhu seized and threatened to swallow him.