A leading female disciple of Sobhita Buddha.

A leading female disciple of Piyadassī Buddha.

Mother of Padumuttara Buddha.

Mother of Koṇḍañña Buddha.

An Asura maiden who became the wife of Sakka; see Sujā.

The daughter of the landowner Senānī who offered the Buddha his famous meal of milk-rice on the very day of his Enlightenment, an offering later enriched by the gods and remembered as one of the most important gifts of his life.

A female lay disciple of Ñātika of whom the Buddha declared that she had become a Stream-winner, assured of eventually attaining Arahantship.

The youngest sister of Visākhā, married to Anāthapiṇḍika’s son, whose haughty and obstinate treatment of servants prompted the Buddha to teach her the seven kinds of wives, after which she reformed her ways.

A maiden of Bārāṇasī in the Maṇicora Jātaka, identified with Rāhula’s mother.

The daughter of a millionaire of Sāketa who, seeing the Buddha at Añjanavana while returning from a festival, completed her insight on the spot and later joined the Order to become an Arahant.

A cross-reference to Sujāta Buddha, the twelfth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

A cousin of Padumuttara Buddha who became one of his two chief disciples.

An Ājīvaka ascetic who offered grass for a seat to Piyadassī Buddha.

A king and father of Prince Nārivāhana.

A king who renounced his throne to become a hermit, identified as the Bodhisatta during the time of Tissa Buddha.

A grain-field watchman who offered grass for a seat to Vipassī Buddha.

A king from fifty-seven world-cycles ago, a former birth of the monk Raṃsisaññaka.

The name borne by the monk Upāli in a past life during the time of Padumuttara Buddha.

A brahmin of Bārāṇasī, father of the nun Sundarī, who became an Arahant three days after ordination.

A householder of Bārāṇasī who died of unrequited longing after seeing one of Sakka’s nymphs during a night in the royal park.

The Bodhisatta born as a landowner of Bārāṇasī, as told in a Jātaka bearing his name.

The exiled son of the Assaka king who met the elder Mahā-Kaccāna in the forest, died shortly after, and was reborn in the Tāvatiṃsa heaven.

Also called Sujāta Pippalāyana of Mahātittha, who married the daughter of the brahmin Kapila in a past life connected to the nun Bhaddā-Kāpilānī.

The twelfth of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in the city of Sumaṅgala and enlightened beneath a bamboo tree.