ゴータマに先立つ二十四仏の第五にあたるレーヴァタ仏への言及

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

シッダッタ仏の侍者として仕えた比丘

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

サンキッチャ、パンディタ、ソーパーカという三人の仲間とともに七歳で阿羅漢果を得た沙弥

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

カンカー・レーヴァタとして知られる長老への言及

A reference to the elder known as Kaṅkhā-Revata.

ソーレイヤ・レーヴァタとして知られ、第二結集で主導的役割を果たした長老で、正統派の比丘たちの相談を受け、ヴェーサーリーでの十事論争の解決を助けた

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.

マッジマニカーヤの誦持者であったスリランカの長老で、誦持の務めを休止して瞑想に専念し、経典の一音節も失うことなく十九年後に阿羅漢果を得た

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.

マラヤ地方に住み、誦経比丘レーヴァタ（7）に瞑想主題を授けたスリランカの長老

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

ブッダゴーサのバラモン師で、ヴェーダに関する論争で最初に彼を打ち負かし、後にシンハラ語注釈をパーリ語に翻訳させるためスリランカへ送った

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.

マハーヤサ長老への言及

A reference to the elder Mahāyasa.

ゴータマに先立つ二十四仏の第五にあたり、スダンニャカに生まれ、家庭生活を捨ててナーガ樹の下で悟りを得た仏で、上首弟子はヴァルナとブラフマデーヴァであった

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.