Father of the youth Pippali, better known by his later name Mahā-Kassapa.

The Bodhisatta born as chaplain to King Apacara of Cetiya, whose warning went unheeded when the king broke a promise through deceit and was swallowed into the Avīci hell, after which the king’s five sons founded five new cities on Kapila’s advice.

The Bodhisatta born as a hermit skilled in reading the omens of the earth, who advised the exiled sons of Okkāka to found their new city on the site of his hermitage, which they named Kapilavatthu after him.

A monk in the time of Kassapa Buddha who, proud of his mastery of the Tipiṭaka, denounced the Dhamma and Vinaya in anger and was reborn first in Avīci and later as a golden fish whose confession of wrongdoing before the Buddha is recorded in the Commentaries.

A wicked monk who lived in a village near Kosambī and was a friend of Paṇḍaka.

A monk mentioned in the Commentaries whose greed for possessions caused him to be reborn as a hungry ghost seen flying through the air with his outer robe ablaze.

A city called Kapilanagara, capital of the Pañcāla realm, once ruled by King Cūḷani-Brahmadatta.

A brahmin of Sāgala in the Madda country, father of Bhaddā Kāpilānī and husband of Sucīmatī, from whose name her epithet Kāpilānī is thought to derive.

A great physician listed among the renowned healers of antiquity.

A minister of King Vohārikatissa appointed to suppress the Vetullavāda heresy and keep its adherents in check.

An ancient philosopher, associated with Kanāda, who taught that the soul was limitless, probably identical with the founder of the Sāṅkhya system.

An ancient seer, probably of Sri Lanka, in whose honour King Parakkamabāhu I built the ornately decorated Kapila-vihāra near Pulatthipura.