A cross-reference to Maṅgala Buddha, the third of the twenty-four Buddhas.

The Bodhisatta in a past life as an ascetic during the time of Dhammadassī Buddha, though one source instead places this birth as the god Sakka.

The Bodhisatta in a past life during the time of Siddhattha Buddha, when he was a wealthy brahmin of Surasena who renounced his fortune to become an ascetic and, by psychic power, offered rose-apple fruit to that Buddha and nine hundred million monks.

An Arahant who attended the foundation ceremony of the Great Thūpa in Sri Lanka.

A sluice gate in the Parakkamasamudda reservoir in Sri Lanka from which the Maṅgala Gaṅgā canal branched off.

A locality in South India mentioned in accounts of King Parakkamabāhu’s military campaigns.

A legendary clan of elephants, each said to possess the strength of ten million men.

A monk of Pagan, probably of the fourteenth century, who wrote the grammatical treatise Gandhatthi.

A Sri Lankan monk who served as preceptor to the scholar-monk Vedeha.

A young man during the time of Vipassī Buddha who came down from the Tāvatiṃsa heaven to hold a mandārava flower over the Buddha as he meditated, in a past life later identified as Ekamandāriya Thera.

A Pacceka Buddha listed among those named in the texts.

A monk of Khandasīmā who taught the scholar-monk Vedeha.

A palace occupied by King Asoka.

The third of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in the city of Uttara, renowned for the radiant aura that gave him his name and for his resolve, formed after a yakkha devoured his children, that his own body should shine as brightly as their spilled blood.