A reference to the Buddha Revata, the fifth of the twenty-four Buddhas preceding Gotama.

A monk who served as the personal attendant of the Buddha Siddhattha.

A novice who, together with three companions — Saṅkicca, Paṇḍita, and Sopāka — became an Arahant at the age of seven.

A reference to the elder known as Kaṅkhā-Revata.

Known as Soreyya Revata, an elder who played a leading role in the Second Council, being consulted by the orthodox monks and helping to settle the dispute over the Ten Points at Vesāli.

An elder of Sri Lanka, a reciter of the Majjhimanikāya who suspended his recitation duties to pursue meditation and attained Arahantship nineteen years later without losing a single syllable of the texts.

An elder of Sri Lanka who lived in the Malaya country and gave a meditation subject to the reciter-monk Revata (7).

The brahmin teacher of Buddhaghosa, who first defeated him in a debate on the Vedas and later sent him to Sri Lanka to translate the Sinhalese commentaries into Pāḷi.

A reference to the elder Mahāyasa.

The fifth of the twenty-four Buddhas preceding Gotama, born in Sudhaññaka, who renounced the household life, attained Enlightenment under a Nāga tree, and whose chief disciples were Varuṇa and Brahmadeva.