The traditional author of the oldest surviving Pāḷi grammar, the Kaccāyana-vyākaraṇa, whom orthodox tradition identifies with the disciple Mahā-Kaccāna, though he was probably a later South Indian scholar of the Avanti school.

An Arahant of the time of the past Buddha Padumuttara who was declared chief among those able to expound in detail what the Buddha stated in brief, a declaration that inspired Mahā-Kaccāna, then an ascetic present at the time, to aspire to the same distinction.

A name by which the yakkha Puṇṇaka calls himself and is addressed in the Vidhura Jātaka, alongside the variant forms Kaccāna and Kātiyāna.

A cross-reference entry pointing to the entry on Kaccāna.

One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, declared foremost in expounding at length what the Buddha had stated in brief, born at Ujjenī as son of a royal chaplain and later renowned for establishing the Buddhist teaching throughout Avanti.