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Pāli Proper Names — I

Iccānanangala

Icchā Sutta.– Wishes it is which hold the world prisoner; by subjugating them, liberty is gained. S.i.40.

Icchānangala Sutta

Icchānangalaka

Idagalissara.– A village in South India where Kulasekhara had an encampment in his fight with the Sinhalese forces (Cv.lxxvi.149).

Iddhādidesanā Sutta.– On psychic-power, its basis, its cultivation, and the practice that leads to its cultivation. S.v.276.

Iddhi Sutta

Iddhikathā.– The second division of the Paññāvagga of the Paṭisambhidāmagga. Ps.ii.205‑15.

Iddhipāda Saṃyutta.– The fifty first division of the Saṃyuttanikāya (S.v.254‑93), consisting of eight chapters. It is the seventh section of the Mahā Vagga.

Iddhipāda Sutta

Iddhipadesa Sutta.– Whatever recluses of the past, present, or future developed spiritual powers did so by practising the four bases of success. S.v.255.

Iddhivaddhana.– One of the palaces, occupied during his lay-life by Sumana Buddha. BuA.125; Bu.v.22 gives other names for his palaces.

Iddhividha Sutta.– Anuruddha tells his colleagues that he gained the psychic powers by cultivating the four foundations of mindfulness. S.v.303.

Iddhiya.– See Itthiya.

Idhalokika Sutta

Ilanāga

Ilanga.– See Sena Iḷanga and Rakkhaka Iḷaṅga.

Ilankiya

Illisa

Illisa Jātaka (No.78)

Ina Sutta.– Deals at length with the disadvantages, both material and moral, of poverty and consequent indebtedness. A.iii.351‑4.

Inandapada.– A Damiḷa chieftain whom Kulasekhara enlisted as his ally. He was a troop leader in Uccankuttha. Cv.lxxvii.74 ff.

Inda

Indadvāra.– One of the fourteen gates of Pulatthipura built by Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxxiii.160).

Indagutta

Indaka (Sutta)

Indakhīla Sutta.– Like a tuft of cotton-wool or a ball of thistledown, wafted by every wind, are recluses and Brahmins who do not understand, as they really are, the facts of Ill; like a city gate-post (indakhīla), unshakable, unquakable, are those who do so understand. (S.v.443‑5).

Indakūta.– A peak near Rājagaha, the abode of the yakkha Indaka. The Buddha once lived there. (S.i.206).

Indapatta (Indapattana, Indapattha)

Indasālaguhā

Indasālaka

Indasama.– A king of thirteen world-cycles ago; a previous birth of Setuccha Thera (ThagA.i.207), also called Khajjakadāyaka (Ap.i.182).

Indasamānagotta

Indasamānagotta Jātaka (No.161).– The story of Indasamāṇagotta, above. It was told in reference to an unruly monk, who is identified with the hermit of the Jātaka (J.ii.41 ff). For details see the Gijjha Jātaka.

Indavarī.– Chief among the lay-women who supported Nārada Buddha (Bu.x.25).

Indranagarī.– The capital of Indra (Cv.lxxxviii.121), evidently another name for Amaravatī.

Indriya Jātaka (No.423)

Indriya Sutta

Indriyabhāvanā Sutta

Indriyagocara Sutta

Indriyakathā.– The fourth division of the Mahā Vagga of the Paṭisambhidāmagga (ii., pp.1‑35).

Indriyāni Sutta.– There are four controlling faculties: faith (saddhā), energy (viriya), mindfulness (sati), and concentration (samādhi) (A.ii.141).

Indriyaparopariyatta Sutta.– Anuruddha tells his colleagues that he developed the knowledge of other’s disposition by cultivating the four foundations of mindfulness. S.v.305.

Ingirīsi.– The Pāḷi name for the English. e.g., Cv.ci.29.

Irandatī

Īsādantā.– A class of elephants mentioned with Hemavatas and others (Vv.xx.9). They have trunks like the poles of a carriage, slightly curved (VvA.104).

Īsadhara

Īsāna

Isayo Araññakā Sutta.– See the Araññāyatana-Isi Sutta

Isayo Samuddakā Sutta.– See the Samuddaka Sutta

Isibhatta Thera.– Brother of Isidāsa.

Isibhūmangana.– A spot in Anurādhapura where half the relics of Mahinda were buried by King Uttiya (Mhv.xx.46). The Dīpavaṃsa (xvii.109) calls it Isibhūmi.

Isidāsa

Isidāsī Therī

Isidatta

Isidatta Sutta

Isidinna

Isigana.– Perhaps the name of a Pacceka Buddha, whom the Bodhisatta once reviled. The reading is, however, very uncertain. Ap.i.299; see footnote.

Isigili

Isigili Sutta

Isimuggadāyaka

Isindā.– A clan mentioned in a list of various tribes. Ap.ii.359.

Isipatana

Isisiṅga.– A hermit, the son of the Bodhisatta and a doe. His story is related in the Alambusā Jātaka and in the Niḷinikā Jātaka.

Issā Sutta.– The nun who is possessed of five qualities, including envy, goes to hell without any doubt (A.iii.140).

Issāpakata-itthi Vatthu

Issariya Sutta v.l. Issara Sutta

Issarasamanārāma (Issarasamanavāhara, Issarasamanaka)

Issariya.– A Damiḷa general whom Dutthagāmani subdued at Hālakola (Mhv.xxv.11).

Issatta Sutta

Issukī Sutta.– A woman who is faithless, shameless, unscrupulous, envious and of weak wisdom is reborn in purgatory (S.iv.241).

Itivuttaka

Itthā Sutta

Itthakāvati

Itthi Vagga.– The seventh section of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakakatthakathā. J.i.285‑315.

Itthiya

Ittiya.– See Itthiya.