ブッダの説法を聞いて出家し、墓地の女性作業員が用意した死体を観想して阿羅漢果を得た、三兄弟の長兄である、セタッビャーの商人。

A merchant of Setabyā, eldest of three brothers, who joined the Order after hearing the Buddha teach and attained Arahantship through meditating on a corpse’s remains arranged for him by a cremation-ground attendant.

布薩戒を一晩守った後、盗品を彼のそばに捨てられたために盗賊と間違われ殴り殺された、前世で自身が犯した同様の濡れ衣事件と呼応する、サーヴァッティーの在家の預流者。

A lay Stream-winner of Sāvatthi who, after keeping the uposatha vows overnight, was mistakenly beaten to death as a thief when stolen goods were dumped near him, an echo of a similar frame-up he himself had orchestrated in a past life.

現在の劫における四仏すべてを見届け、アショーカ王のために生き写しの仏像を作り、後に持ち去られるまでラーマガーマから得た仏舎利を守った、長寿の竜王。

A long-lived Nāga king who witnessed all four Buddhas of the present world-cycle, created a lifelike image of the Buddha for King Asoka, and guarded the Buddha’s relics from Rāmagāma until they were taken from him.

ガンダマーダナ山を取り囲む七つの山の一つ。

One of the seven mountains surrounding Gandhamādana.

仏陀ヴィパッシーの時代のバンドゥマティーの居士で、アンニャー・コンダンニャの前世でもあり、弟のクーラカーラとともに、作物の生育過程の九段階すべてで初穂を仏陀に捧げた。

A householder of Bandhumatī in the time of the Buddha Vipassī and a previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña, who with his brother Cūḷakāḷa offered the Buddha the first fruits of their harvest at nine stages of its growth.