Son of Suddhodana and Mahāpajāpatī, half-brother of the Buddha, who was led into the monastic order on his own wedding day and later became an Arahant.

A brahmin student called Nanda māṇava, one of the chief disciples of Bāvarī, who questioned the Buddha and later became an Arahant.

A cowherd of Kosambī known as Nanda-Gopālaka, who was ordained after hearing the Buddha’s simile of a log floating to the sea, and soon became an Arahant.

An Arahant, formerly a hunter who built a hut for the Pacceka Buddha Anuruddha, was reborn in Tusita, and later questioned the Buddha about the “further shore”; possibly the same figure as the cowherd Nanda-Gopālaka.

A herdsman of Sāvatthi in the service of Anāthapiṇḍika, who hosted the Buddha for seven days, became a Stream-winner, and was killed by a hunter’s arrow on his way back from escorting him.

A disciple of the Pacceka Buddha Sabbābhibhū who was abused by a drunkard named Munāli — a past birth of the Bodhisatta — an act whose karmic consequence was said to be the later slander of the Buddha by Ciñcā.

A young deity (devaputta) who visited the Buddha and conversed with him.

One of the three palaces occupied by the Buddha Vipassī during his last life as a layman.

One of the chief lay supporters of the Buddha Sikhī.

A king of Bārāṇasī, a former birth of Mahā-Kassapa, whose merit brought him a wish-fulfilling tree and who, with his queen, gave alms to five hundred Pacceka Buddhas before renouncing his throne to become an ascetic.

One of the chief lay supporters of the Buddha Maṅgala.

A cross-reference to Nanda Vaccha, under which fuller details are given.

A slave in a former existence, reborn in this life as a co-resident of Sāriputta, whose story is told in the Nanda Jātaka.

A brahmin of Takkasilā, learned in the Vedas, who recited verses to King Jayaddisa for a reward, and who in a related Jātaka story is identified with Ānanda.

Called Nandakumāra, a brahmin ascetic and brother of the Bodhisatta in his birth as Soṇa, identified with Ānanda in the Soṇa-Nanda Jātaka.

Called Nandamāṇavaka, a brahmin who raped the Therī Uppalavaṇṇā and was said to have been swallowed by the earth as punishment.

A cross-reference to the nāga king Nandopānanda.

Collective name for the Nine Nandas (Nava Nandā), a dynasty of nine kings who ruled in India after the line of Kālāsoka, the last of whom was overthrown by Candagutta with Cāṇakya’s help.

One of two butchers both named Nanda, one of whom killed the other in a dispute over a slaughtered cow’s head and tail, and was consequently reborn in hell.

A distinguished monk in the reign of King Parakkamabāhu I of Sri Lanka, who lived at the Selantara monastery and headed the three fraternities of Rohaṇa.

A butcher who slaughtered cattle for fifty years and, after cutting out and eating the tongue of a living ox, suffered the same fate himself and died in agony, being reborn in hell.

Name shared by four Pacceka Buddhas mentioned together in the Isigili Sutta.

A cross-reference to Nandaka.

A householder of Sāvatthi who was ordained, attained Arahantship, and was declared by the Buddha foremost among monks in exhorting nuns.

The chief woman disciple of Dīpaṅkara Buddha.

One of the four wives of Magha who built a pond within his hall and was consequently reborn as Sakka’s consort, giving her name to the Nandā-pokkharaṇī pool.

The collective name of three daughters of the Bodhisatta in one of his births, whose story is told in the Suvaṇṇahaṃsa Jātaka.

A daughter of Candakumāra.

A nun, one of the sisters of Thullanandā, alongside Nandavatī and Sundarī-Nandā.

Declared by the Buddha foremost among nuns in meditative power, a daughter of Suddhodana and Mahāpajāpatī and sister of Nanda Thera, generally identified with Sundarī-Nandā though her legend has become entangled with those of other nuns of the same name.

A nun, distinct from the more famous Nandā, who died at Ñātika and was spontaneously reborn in the Pure Abodes, never to return to this world.

One of the chief women supporters of Kakusandha Buddha.

A daughter of King Ānanda of Haṃsavatī and half-sister of Padumuttara Buddha, identified as a previous birth of the elder nun Sakulā.

An Arahant, sister of King Kāḷāsoka, who was instrumental in winning the king’s support for the orthodox monks when he had been inclined to favour the heretics.

The wife of Nandasena.

One of the palaces occupied by Paduma Buddha in his last lay life.

A palace occupied by Sujāta Buddha in his last lay life.

Probably the name of a celestial female musician of Indra’s court.

The collective name of the nine Nanda kings who ruled after the ten sons of Kāḷāsoka.