The personal name of Sāriputta.

The chief priest of King Vijaya of Sri Lanka, who founded the settlement of Upatissagāma.

A son of King Silākāla and brother of Dāṭhāpabhuti and Moggallāna II, killed by Dāṭhāpabhuti out of jealousy for their father’s favour.

A monk known as Pāsānadīpavāsī Upatissa who wrote a commentary on the Mahāvaṃsa, later used and sometimes criticised by the author of the Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā.

A Sri Lankan elder, expert in the Vinaya alongside his colleague Phussadeva, whose explanations Buddhaghosa often cited with great respect.

Sāriputta’s father and chieftain of Nālaka, whose proper personal name was Vaṅganta.

The author of the Pāḷi Mahābodhivaṃsa, who lived in Sri Lanka probably in the tenth century.

The author of a commentary on Kassapa’s Anāgatavaṃsa.

A Pacceka Buddha named in a nominal list of such Buddhas.

Also called Arahā Upatissa, the author of the Vimuttimagga, who probably lived around the first century B.C.

The author of the Saddhammappajjotikā, the commentary on the Mahā Niddesa, who lived within the Mahāvihāra precincts in Anurādhapura.