旖多摩底天宫的一位天神，应帝释天与阿说迦长老之请，转生人间成为那先比丘。

A deity of the Ketumatī Palace who, at the request of Sakka and the elder Assagutta, took rebirth in the human world as the monk Nāgasena.

一位贫穷的婆罗门，是舍利弗之父婆罗门婆罗蹉的友人，舍利弗曾亲自登门乞食于他，他死后转生为森林住者帝须沙弥。

A poor brahmin, friend of Sāriputta’s father Vaṅganta, who was visited for alms by Sāriputta himself and, after death, reborn as the novice Vanavāsī Tissa.

公元四世纪的斯里兰卡国王，瞿多婆耶王之子，起初偏袒无畏山派而打压大寺派，后转而成为大寺派的护持者，并建造祇陀林寺及众多蓄水池与运河。

A king of Sri Lanka in the fourth century, son of Goṭhakābhaya, who at first favoured the Abhayagiri fraternity at the expense of the Mahāvihāra but later became its patron, and who built the Jetavana monastery and numerous tanks and canals.

统治华氏城的一位印度国王，每日供养千名比丘，仍嫌不足，还曾隐姓埋名到北摩偷罗做工以赚取更多布施之资。

A king of India who ruled at Pāṭaliputta, feeding a thousand monks daily and, not content with that, labouring incognito at Uttaramadhurā to earn additional funds for alms-giving.

华氏城的一位国王，曾与其妹亲自劳作，以所得供养五百位来自比扬古提婆的比丘。

A king of Pāṭaliputta who, together with his sister, laboured with his own hands to earn alms for five hundred monks from Piyaṅgudīpa.