指 Revata 佛，即过去二十四佛中的第五位。

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

Siddhattha 佛的侍者比丘。

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

一位沙弥，与 Saṅkicca、Paṇḍita、Sopāka 三人一同在七岁时便证得阿罗汉果。

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

指人称 Kaṅkhā-Revata 的长老。

A reference to the elder known as Kaṅkhā-Revata.

人称 Soreyya Revata，在第二次结集中扮演关键角色的长老，正统派比丘向他请益，助力平息在毗舍离引发的十事之诤。

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.

斯里兰卡的一位长老，本为《中部》诵持师，暂停诵经专修禅观，十九年后证得阿罗汉果，重诵经典时仍无一字遗漏。

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.

居于斯里兰卡 Malaya 地区的一位长老，曾传授禅修法门予诵经比丘 Revata（7）。

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

佛音（Buddhaghosa）的婆罗门业师，最初在吠陀辩论中折服佛音，后遣其前往斯里兰卡将僧伽罗文注释译为巴利文。

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.

指长老 Mahāyasa。

A reference to the elder Mahāyasa.

过去二十四佛中的第五位，生于 Sudhaññaka，出家后于一株龙树下证悟，上首弟子为 Varuṇa 与 Brahmadeva。

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.