A merchant’s son of Suppāraka in Sunāparanta who joined the Order in Sāvatthi, received a brief teaching from the Buddha now known as the Puṇṇovāda Sutta, and returned home to attain Arahantship and win many converts.

A once-poor laborer of Rājagaha who, after giving alms to Sāriputta, saw his ploughed field turn to gold and was made a millionaire by the king, becoming the father of Uttarā Nandamātā.

A slave of the millionaire Meṇḍaka, counted among the ‘five persons of great merit,’ known for ploughing fourteen furrows with a single plough.

A priest who held the oblation ladles for seven sages in the account recorded in the Assalāyana Sutta, where the sages were rebuked for claiming brahmin superiority.

A cross-reference note pointing to Puṇṇaka and clarifying that the Puṇṇa Sutta is another name for the Puṇṇovāda Sutta.

A slave girl in the household of Sujātā.

An Arahant nun born in a householder’s family of Sāvatthi, who attained enlightenment upon seeing a vision of the Buddha while meditating.

An Arahant nun born as the daughter of a household slave in Anāthapiṇḍika’s family, freed after converting the brahmin Sotthiya to the Dhamma.

The slave girl of a brahmin soothsayer in the Nānacchanda Jātaka, who, when offered any boon, asked only for a pestle, mortar, and winnowing basket.

A slave woman of Rājagaha whose offering of a rice cake to the Buddha, after she wondered why monks stayed awake at night, became the occasion for the Kuṇḍakakucchisindhava Jātaka.

A slave woman whose discarded garment in a cemetery was made by the Buddha into the rag robe he later exchanged with Mahā-Kassapa.