A princess of Mantāvatī who cut her own hair and attained the first jhāna to resist an arranged marriage, then joined the Order and soon became an Arahant.

Mother of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara.

Mother of the Buddha Padumuttara, though one source names her Sujātā instead.

Chief queen of King Suruci of Mithilā and mother of Mahāpanāda, identified with Visākhā in a later life.

See the entry for the Buddha Sumedha, of whom this is another listing.

The Bodhisatta in the time of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara, a wealthy brahmin turned ascetic who lay down in the mud for the Buddha to walk over and there resolved to become a Buddha himself, the founding act of Gotama’s path to Enlightenment.

A warrior-caste king, father of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara.

A warrior-caste king, father of the Buddha Nārada, though one source instead names his father Sudeva.

The name of a brahmin family in the time of the Buddha Tissa, into which the elder Vāraṇa was born.

The personal attendant of the Buddha Sumedha, met by Piliṇḍavaccha, though another source instead names that Buddha’s attendant Sāgara.

A king who reigned twenty world-cycles ago, a previous birth of the elder Avopupphiya.

A king who reigned seven world-cycles ago, a previous birth of the elder Padasaññaka.

An elder of Sri Lanka at whose request the monk Buddhanāga composed the Vinayatthamañjūsā.

A monk of Cūtaggāma, probably of the fourteenth century, author of the Sādhucaritodaya and the Anāpattidīpanī.

The eleventh of the twenty-four Buddhas, born in Sudassana as the son of King Sudatta, who left the household life, attained Enlightenment beneath a mahānimba tree, and taught for ninety thousand years before passing away in Medhārāma.