毗舍浮佛的上首弟子，也是佛陀的胞弟，佛陀的初轉法輪即為他而說。

Leading disciple of Vessabhū Buddha and his younger brother, to whom the Buddha’s first discourse was taught.

Piyadassī 佛的敵對者，角色相當於提婆達多，曾與人合謀刺殺該佛未遂。

The enemy and rival of Piyadassī Buddha, playing a role corresponding to Devadatta, who conspired unsuccessfully to kill him.

波羅奈國王的一匹烈馬，又稱 Mahāsoṇa，見《Suhanu 本生》。

A fierce horse belonging to the king of Bārāṇasī, also called Mahāsoṇa; see the Suhanu Jātaka.

與 Uttara 一同被派往 Suvaṇṇabhūmi 弘法的阿羅漢比丘。

An Arahant monk sent together with Uttara to bring Buddhism to Suvaṇṇabhūmi.

Mahāsena 王的大臣，異端比丘 Saṅghamitta 的追隨者，曾協助毀壞佛教建築，後在企圖破壞 Thūpārāma 時被殺。

A minister of King Mahāsena and follower of the heretic monk Saṅghamitta, who helped despoil Buddhist monuments and was killed attempting to destroy the Thūpārāma.

見 Mahāsoṇa 條。

See Mahāsoṇa.

王舍城一位居士之子，曾在 Veḷuvana 與佛陀兩次論及無常與滅受等議題。

A householder’s son of Rājagaha who held two recorded conversations with the Buddha at Veḷuvana on impermanence and the cessation of feeling.

住在 Pipphali 精舍的一位有學識的導師，以在獵人父親臨終時為其剃度，助其見得天界景象而聞名。

A gifted teacher who lived at the Pipphali monastery, remembered for ordaining his hunter father on his deathbed and helping him see a vision of the heavenly realm.

Mahāvihāra 的一位長老，《Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī》註釋即應他之請而撰成。

An elder of the Mahāvihāra at whose request the commentary Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī was composed.

燃燈佛（Dīpaṅkara Buddha）的主要女性在家護法之一。

One of the chief female lay patrons of Dīpaṅkara Buddha.

蘇摩那佛（Sumana Buddha）的上首女弟子之一。

A leading female disciple of Sumana Buddha.

喬達摩佛的一位傑出在家女弟子。

An eminent lay disciple of Gotama Buddha.

斯里蘭卡一位傑出的比丘尼長老。

An eminent Therī of Sri Lanka.

人稱跋戶普提迦（Bahuputtikā，意為「多子者」）的比丘尼，育有十名子女後於晚年出家，被佛陀譽為諸比丘尼中精進第一，曾以神通不用火便令水沸騰，藉此使質疑她證量的同修們心服口服。

A nun known as Bahuputtikā for having ten children before ordaining in old age, declared by the Buddha foremost among nuns for effort, who once heated water by psychic power alone to silence colleagues who doubted her attainment.