An alternate reference to the Buddha Kassapa, directing the reader to that entry.

Son of an Udicca brahmin of Sāvatthi who became a monk after hearing the Buddha teach at Jetavana and attained Arahantship following an admonition from his mother, and who is probably to be identified with Sereyyaka Thera of the Apadāna.

A young deity who visited the Buddha one night at Jetavana and spoke verses urging monks to train diligently in meditative absorption, said by the commentator Buddhaghosa to have earlier heard the Buddha teach the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṃsa heaven.

One of ten legendary brahmin sages of antiquity credited with composing the mantras still chanted and studied by brahmins.

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

A brahmin ascetic identified as the Bodhisatta, father of Nārada, whose story is told in the Cūḷanārada Jātaka.

A brahmin ascetic who, in the Kassapamaṇḍiya Jātaka, is the father of the Bodhisatta.

A great sage identified as the Bodhisatta, father of Isisiṅga, this name here referring to a clan rather than a single individual.

An ascetic, also known as Nārada, who dwelt near Mount Kosika in the Himavā and invited the Buddha Padumuttara into his hermitage, identified as a former birth of Ekāsanadāyaka Thera.

A wealthy merchant, probably of Rājagaha, who built and gave his name to the Kassapakārāma monastery.

A son of King Dhātusena of Sri Lanka by a lesser marriage, who killed his father to seize the throne, built the rock fortress at Sīhagiri out of fear of his brother Moggallāna, later performed acts of atonement, and died by his own hand when defeated in battle.

A son of King Upatissa III of Sri Lanka, known as Irikassapa for his prowess with sixteen loyal companions in repeatedly repelling the rebel Silākāla, who took his own life when finally surrounded and defeated.

A younger brother of King Aggabodhi III of Sri Lanka who was made viceroy, later plundered sacred buildings to fund his army during civil strife, but after defeating the usurper Dāṭhopatissa became king himself and performed acts of merit in repentance.

One of three younger brothers of King Sena I of Sri Lanka who fought valiantly against an invading Pāṇḍu army as Ādipāda, fled when the effort failed, and was later killed at Pulatthipura by the Pāṇḍu king’s order.

A son of Kittaggabodhi, ruler of Rohaṇa in Sri Lanka, who fled to King Sena I’s court after his elder brother was murdered by their paternal aunt, later recovering his father’s realm with Sena’s help before probably being killed himself.

A younger brother of Kings Sena II and Udaya II of Sri Lanka who served as crown prince under Udaya before becoming king himself, and whose daughter later married his own successor of the same name.

A son of King Sena II of Sri Lanka who served as crown prince ruling Dakkhiṇadesa under his predecessor before succeeding him as king, remembered as a learned ruler to whom a Sinhalese commentary on the Dhammapada Commentary is attributed.

A son of King Sena V of Sri Lanka.

A son of King Mahinda V of Sri Lanka who was raised by the populace after his father’s capture by the Cōḷas, later reigned as Vikkamabāhu but refused formal coronation until he could subdue the Tamil forces in his kingdom, and died of illness after a twelve-year reign.

Chief of the Kesadhātu clan who governed Rohaṇa in Sri Lanka and defeated Tamil forces there, but was killed in battle after refusing to submit to Kitti, the future Vijayabāhu I.

A prince of Jambudīpa whose envoys, sent with costly gifts to the king of Rāmañña, were turned away and insulted, an episode cited among the causes of King Parakkamabāhu I of Sri Lanka’s military expedition against Rāmañña.

A monk-scholar credited by the Gandhavaṃsa with authorship of the Anāgatavaṃsa and several other minor Pāli treatises, distinct from the canonical work of similar name.

A monk from the Middle Country (Majjhimadesa) mentioned in the Sāsanavaṃsa as one of those responsible for establishing Buddhism in the Greek borderlands (Yonakarattha).

A monk of Arimaddana who lived in the time of King Narapati, became known as Pollaṅka Thera after a mission there, and, according to legend, was thrown overboard during a sea crossing before being rescued by Sakka in the form of a crocodile and later returning from Sri Lanka with relics and Bodhi-tree seeds.

Sometimes a shortened form of the name Kassapagotta, and also an epithet once applied to the ascetic Nārada.

A well-known clan name shared by several unrelated figures in the texts, such as Uruvela-Kassapa and Nāgita Thera, who were addressed by it simply because they belonged to a family bearing this name.

The twenty-fourth Buddha and third of the present fortunate aeon, one of the seven Buddhas named in the Canon, born in Bārāṇasī to brahmin parents and, after a brief seven days of austerity following his renunciation, attained Enlightenment beneath a banyan tree before teaching his first discourse at Isipatana to ten million newly ordained monks.