佛陀最杰出的弟子之一，原是迦毗罗卫的一名理发匠，随释迦族王子们一同出家，应王子们之请先于他们受戒以挫其骄慢，后从佛陀习得全部律藏，被誉为持律第一。

One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, a barber from Kapilavatthu who accompanied the Sakyan princes into the Order and, at their request, was ordained before them so as to humble their pride, later learning the entire Vinaya from the Buddha and being declared foremost in mastery of monastic discipline.

王舍城的一名少年，其父母因不愿让他学习谋生技能而将他连同十六名同龄伙伴一起送去出家，这群少年破晓即喧闹索食的行径，促成了“未满二十岁不得受具足戒”这条戒律的制定。

A boy of Rājagaha whose over-indulgent parents had him ordained along with sixteen equally young companions, an episode whose youthful antics led to the rule against granting higher ordination to anyone under twenty.

注释书中特称为“Bhāgineyya Upāli”的一位比丘，是那位著名弟子的外甥，由其舅父为其剃度，因曾以偈颂赞颂过去佛而先后十八次投生为天王、二十五次投生为人王。

A monk distinguished in the commentaries as Bhāgineyya Upāli, a nephew of the eminent disciple who ordained him, remembered for having been eighteen times a king among the gods and twenty-five times a king among men as a result of praising a past Buddha in verse.

那烂陀的一位居士，特称“Upāli-Gahapati”，原本追随尼乾陀·若提子，后与佛陀辩论（记载于《优婆离经》）而皈依，证得须陀洹果。

A householder of Nāḷandā, distinguished as Upāli-Gahapati, who was originally a follower of Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta but was converted to become a Stream-winner after a debate with the Buddha recorded in the Upāli Sutta.

应 Kittisirirājasīha 王之请，率领泰国僧团前往斯里兰卡重建具足戒传承的僧团领袖，深受当地国王敬重，后因鼻疾不治病逝于斯里兰卡。

Head of the delegation of Thai monks sent at the request of King Kittisirirājasīha to re-establish higher ordination in Sri Lanka, where he was held in great esteem and eventually died of an incurable illness.