An alternate reference to Sumana Buddha, entry 27 in this set of namesakes.

The personal attendant of Padumuttara Buddha, whose exemplary service inspired Ānanda, in that same birth, to resolve to become the attendant of a future Buddha.

A step-brother of Padumuttara Buddha who won the privilege of attending him for three months and built a monastery in the Sobhana park at great expense, and who is identified with Ānanda.

A pupil of Anuruddha who represented the monks of Pāveyyaka at the Second Buddhist Council.

A garland maker and royal gardener whose miraculous offering of flowers, which formed a canopy over the Buddha as he walked through the city, earned him a lavish royal reward and the Buddha’s prediction that he would one day become a Pacceka Buddha.

The chief lay supporter of Kassapa Buddha, though also identified elsewhere as Sumaṅgala.

A brahmin of Kosala who was ordained by his Arahant uncle, quickly mastered the four absorptions and higher knowledges, and attained Arahantship, having in a past life offered a medicinal fruit to an ailing Pacceka Buddha.

Probably identical with the preceding Sumana entries, a figure also called Cūḷa Sumana who in a past life offered jasmine flowers to Sikhī Buddha and was four times a king named Mahāyasa.

A monk who lived in Andhavana with the elder Khema and once discussed the nature of Arahants with the Buddha, likely identical with one of the other Sumanas already described.

A millionaire in the time of Padumuttara Buddha who was the employer and later the friend of Annabhāra.

A householder in the time of King Duṭṭhagāmaṇī whose daughter, a rebirth of Ubbirī, was named Sumanā and later married Lakuntaka Atimbara.

A millionaire of Sāvatthi who was the father of Anāthapiṇḍika and of the elder Subhūti.

A Pacceka Buddha of thirty-one world-cycles ago who was given a vallikāra-fruit by two past-life donors, Bhalliya and Bhāradvāja Thera.

The eldest son of King Bindusāra, killed by his brother Asoka, whose own son became the novice Nigrodha and whose wife was named Sumanā.

The son of Saṅghamittā and Aggibrahmā who, gifted with higher knowledge even as a young novice, accompanied Mahinda’s mission to Sri Lanka and later flew to Sakka’s abode to retrieve the Buddha’s collarbone relic for enshrinement.

The governor of Girijanapada in the time of King Kākavaṇṇa Tissa and a friend of Veḷusumana’s father.

A yakkha chieftain whom the Buddha’s followers were told to invoke in time of need.

One of the chief lay patrons of the future Buddha Metteyya.

A Pacceka Buddha of the future, the same figure predicted under the garland-maker Sumana entry.

A gardener of Kosambī, employed by three millionaires, at whose house the laywoman Khujjuttarā first encountered and heard the Buddha.

A millionaire’s son of Rājagaha, an unbeliever whose devout wife Uttarā, wanting leisure to practice her faith, arranged for the courtesan Sirimā to attend to him in her place.

A deity who dwelt in the fortified gate-chamber of Jetavana.

An alternate reference to Samiddhisumana.

An eminent monk present at the foundation ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa, referred to elsewhere as Mahā Sumana.

The guardian deity of the mountain Samantakūṭa.

The personal name of Uggahamāna.

The fourth of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in Mekhala to the warrior Sudatta, who left the household life on an elephant and attained enlightenment beneath a nāga tree.

The leading female disciple (aggasāvikā) of Anomadassī Buddha.

Wife of Sirivaḍḍha and mother of Mahosadha.

A Nāga maiden and wife of the Nāga king Campeyya in the Campeyya Jātaka, identified with Rāhulamātā.

Wife of a man named Sumana and mother of the novice Nigrodha.

Wife of Sumedha Buddha during his last life as a layman.

A daughter of the king of Kosala and sister of Pasenadi, styled a royal princess, who became a Stream-winner after questioning the Buddha on the efficacy of giving.

A Sakyan maiden formerly in the Bodhisatta’s harem who joined the Order under Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī and attained Arahantship after the Buddha appeared to her in a vision.

Wife of Siddhattha Buddha during his last life as a layman, also called Somanassā in some sources.

A cross-reference to the entry for Sumanadevī.

The leading female disciple (aggasāvikā) of the future Metteyya Buddha.

The name of Ubbirī before ordination, as the daughter of Sumana in Bhokkantagāma who married Duṭṭhagāmaṇī’s minister Lakuntaka Atimbara before joining the Pañcabalaka nuns and becoming an Arahant.

An eminent teacher of the Vinaya in Sri Lanka.

One of four women of Paṇṇakatanagara who, for offering flowers to a monk on alms round, were reborn in Tāvatiṃsa with adjoining mansions, this one named for the sumana-flowers she gave.

Wife of Ariyagālatissa.

A woman of Anurādhapura who, after being sent away by her husband and enduring hardship, was miraculously aided by Sakka and a deity before being made chief queen by the king.