An Arahant thera of Bhaggari in Sri Lanka, listed among the last survivors of assemblies such as the Kuddālaka and Mūgapakkha gatherings held during the Bodhisatta’s various past births.

Known as Vanavāsī-Mahātissa, a monk who witnessed Sakka and other deities attending on his holy colleague Alindakavāsī Mahāphussadeva, though he himself perceived only their radiance.

Known as Ambakhādaka-Mahātissa, a monk of Ciragumba cited as an example of one who refused to accept food obtained by hinting his desire for it.

A monk of Cetiyagiri who attained Arahantship on the spot after a smiling woman’s teeth prompted him to perceive only a heap of bones.

A monk of Puṇṇavallika who, entering rapture at moonlit sight of the Great Thūpa, developed the meditative power to eventually travel there through the air.

An elder of the Mahākarañjiya monastery who became an Arahant through mindfulness of breathing and was thereby able to determine the length of his own lifespan.

A monk whose mind was momentarily defiled by an unseemly sight while begging for alms in Kalyāṇigāma.

The incumbent of Maṇḍalārāma near Bhokkantagāma, a reciter of the Dhammapada, in whose presence Sumanā recounted her past.

A man of the Okkāka lineage, father of King Dappula I, with two other sons and a daughter.

An Arahant incumbent of Koṭapabbata monastery and teacher of Asubhakammika Tissa, who heard with his divine ear a monk’s description of the Great Thūpa’s marvels and pronounced it incomplete.

The incumbent of Kambugallaka monastery who, together with his colleague Mahātissa of Kupikkala, persuaded King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī’s ministers not to abandon him, and was later put in charge of the monasteries they had built.

The incumbent of Kupikkala monastery who sheltered the fugitive King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī with a meal and later, along with his colleague at Kambugallaka, dissuaded the king’s ministers from revolt; he was subsequently given charge of the Abhayagiri monastery.

The incumbent of the Mahāvihāra expelled for excessive association with lay families, an event that led his pupil Bahalamassutissa to secede and found a new sect at Abhayagiri.

The incumbent of Anurārāma so admired by King Vohārīka Tissa that the king ordered regular alms to be given him at Mucelapaṭṭana.

An elder who, despite sixty years as a monk, mistakenly believed himself an Arahant until his pupil Dhammadinna, using psychic power to conjure a girl picking lotuses, exposed the lust still in his heart, prompting him to strive and attain true Arahantship that same day.

An incumbent of Cittalapabbata troubled by lustful thoughts, whose teacher had him painstakingly build a cell and then occupy it for a single night — during which he strove and attained Arahantship.