Pali Proper Names - G -

• Ghanamatthaka.-An ornament which Migāra presented to Visākhā to show her his gratitude. DhA.i.407.
• Ghanasela.-A mountain in Avanti in the Dakkhināpatha, where Kāladevala lived. J.v.133.
• Ghanikā.-A class of spirits (cloud-gods?). Mil., p.191.
• Gharanī
• Gharāvāsa-pañha.-The question asked by Dhanañjaya and answered by Vidhura, before he was taken away by Punnaka. The question dealt with how a householder could so live as to get the best out of his life, both for this world and for the next. J.iv.286f.
• Ghata
• Ghata Jātaka (No.355, 454)
• Ghata Sutta
• Ghatamandadāyaka Thera
• Ghatāsana Jātaka (No.133)
• Ghatāsana.-Twenty kappas ago Pupphathūpiya (q.v.) became king thirty-eight times under this name. Ap.i.156.
• Ghatāya.-A Sākiyan of Kapilavatthu, who built a monastery attached to the Nigrodhārāma. There the Mahā Suññatā Sutta was preached. M.iii.110; MA.ii.907.
• Ghatīkāra
• Ghatīkāra Sutta
• Ghattiyā.-One of the four wives of Candakumāra. J.iv.148.
• Ghosa
• Ghosaka-setthi (v.l. Ghosita°)
• Ghosasaññaka Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a hunter, and hearing the Buddha preach was delighted by the sound of his voice (Ap.ii.451). His verses are in the Theragāthā Commentary attributed to Gahavaratīriya (ThagA.i.91) and to Dhammika. Ibid., p.398.
• Ghosita. See Ghosaka (2).
• Ghosita Sutta.-Ghosita-setthi visits Ananda at the Ghositārāma and questions him on the Buddha's teaching regarding diversity in elements (dhātunānattam). Ananda explains how the three kinds of feelings - pleasurable, painful and neutral - arise. S.iv.113f.
• Ghositārāma
• Ghotamukha
• Ghotamukha Sutta
• Ghotamukhī.-See Ghotamukha.
• Gihi Sutta
• Gihīnaya Sutta.-See Bālhagilāyana Sutta.
• Gihipatipadā Sutta.-A name given in the Sutta Sangaha (No. 65) to the Gihisāmīci Sutta (q.v.).
• Gihīsāmīci Sutta.-The Buddha tells Anāthapindika of four things which constitute the householder's path of duty - he waits upon the Order with offers of robes, food, lodgings, requisites and medicines for use in sickness. A.ii.65.
• Gihivinaya.-See the Sigālovāda Sutta.
• Gijjha Jātaka (No.164, 399, 427)
• Gijjhakūta
• Gijjhakūta Sutta
• Gilāna Vagga/Sutta
• Gilānadassana Sutta
• Gilāyana Sutta
• Gilimalaya.-A village given by Vijayabāhu I. for the maintenance of worship at Samantakūta. Cv.lx.65; also Cv.Trs.i.22I, n.2.
• Gimhatittha.-A town in Rohana where the Kesadhātu Devarāja won a victory. Cv.lxxv.22; also Cv. Trs.146, u.2.
• Giñjakāvasatha
• Giñjakāvasatha Sutta
• Giraggasamajjā
• Giri (Sutta)
• Giribārattha.-A district in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon. Cv.lxix.8; lxx.125.
• Giribāvāpi.-A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.44; for identification see Cv.Trs.i.280, n.5.
• Giribbaja 1.-A name for Rājagaha.
• Giribbaja 2.-A name for Vankagiri. J.vi.589.
• Giribhanda-(vāhana)-pūjā
• Giribhanda.-A monastery in Ceylon restored by Udaya I (Cv.xlix.29). See below, Giribhandapūjā.
• Giribrahā.-See Giriguhā.
• Giridanta (v.l. Giridatta, Giridanha).-The trainer of the horse Pandava. He was a previous birth of Devadatta. See the Giridanta Jātaka.
• Giridanta Jātaka (No.184)
• Giridāsa.-A poor caravan leader, the husband of Isidāsī, in a previous birth. Thig.445f; ThigA.260, 265.
• Giridatta Thera.-An arahant, teacher of Vitāsoka. Giridatta was especially proficient in Sutta and Abhidhamma. ThagA.i.295.
• Giriddhī.-An eminent arahant Therī of the Mahāvihāra who taught the Vinaya in Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.14.
• Giridipā
• Girigāma
• Girigāmakanna.-The residence of Cūla Sudhamma Thera (VibhA.452). It was probably a monastery near Girigāma.
• Giriguhā.-One of the palaces occupied by Piyadassī Buddha in his last lay life (Bu.xiv.16). The Commentary (BuA., p.172) calls it Giribrahā.
• Girihālika.-A monastery built in an inland district of Ceylon by King Mahallaka-Nāga (Mhv.xxxv.125).
• Girikālī (Girikārī).-Daughter of the chaplain of Kākavanna-Tissa. She became a nun, won arahantship, and became famous as an eminent teacher of the Vinaya. Dpv.xviii.20.
• Girikanda
• Girikandaka
• Girikandasiva
• Girikassapa
• Girikumbhila.-A vihāra in Ceylon built by Lañjitissa (Mhv.xxxiii.14). At the ceremony of the dedication of the vihāra, Lañjitissa distributed to sixty thousand monks six garments each (Mhv.xxxiii.26).
• Girilaka.-A Tamil stronghold, near Vijitapura, commanded by Giriya. It was captured by Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxv.47.
• Girimānanda Sutta.-See Giri Sutta.
• Girimānanda Thera
• Girimanndala.-A district in Ceylon. See Girl (4). Cv.li.111; for identification see Cv.Trs.i.159, n.l.
• Girimekhalā
• Girinagara (Girivhanagara).-A monastery in Devapāli built by Aggabodhi V. Cv.xlviii.3.
• Girinelapūjaka Thera.-An arahant. Thirty-one kappas ago he was a hunter, and having seen Sikhī Buddha, he offered him a nela-flower (Ap.ii.457). He is evidently identical with Gavampati. ThagA.i.104.
• Girinelavāhanaka.-A vihāra to the north of Kandanagara, built by Sūratissa. Mhv.xxi.6.
• Giripunnāgiya Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he offered a giripunnāga-fruit to the Buddha Sobhita, then staying at the Cittakūta (Ap.ii.416). He is evidently identical with Kanhadinna. ThagA.i.304.
• Girisāra.-A king of eighty kappas ago; a previous birth of Mānava (or Sammukhāthavika) Thera (ThagA.i.164; Ap.i.159). v.l. Sirisāra, Hirisāra.
• Girisigāmuka.-One of the tanks restored by Parakkamabāhu I (Cv.lxviii.49).
• Giritata (Ghitatāka)
• Giritimbilatissa.-A mountain and a vihāra in Rohana. Near it was the village Siva. See Dhammā. Ras.ii.42.
• Girivāhana.-One of the palaces of Atthadassī Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.xv.15.
• Girivamsa.-A royal family of Ceylon to which belonged the famous Alagakkonāra (Cv.xci.3) and also the mother of Parakkamabāhu VI. P.L.C.247.
• Girivhanagara.-See Girinagara.
• Girivihāra.-A vihāra in Ceylon erected by Aggabodhi I; he gave one hundred fields for its support (Cv.xlii.12). It was the residence of Cullapindapātiya-Tissa (AA.i.367), and also of a novice, pupil of Tepitaka, called Culla-Summa Thera. (DA.ii.514).
• Giriya 1.-A jackal, a previous incarnation of Devadatta. See the Manoja Jātaka. J.iii.322f.
• Giriya 2.-A Tamil general, commander of Girilaka; he was slain by Dutthagāmanī. Mhv.xxv.47.
• Giriyasa.-See Giri (3).
• Giriyāvāpi.-A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.46; see also Cv.Trs.i.280, n.5.
• Gīta Sutta.-The five evil results of preaching the Dhamma in a sing-song style (gītassarena). A.iii.251.
• Givulabā.-A village in Ceylon where the forces of Parakkamabāhu I. won a great victory. Cv.lxxiv.91.
• Gocariya.-One of the ten families of elephants. It is said that a Chaddanta-elephant is born in a Chaddantakula and not in such a family as the Gocariya. v.l. Kālāvaka. MA.i.248.
• Godatta Sutta
• Godatta Thera
• Godāvarī.-See Godhāvarī.
• Godha, Godhaka.-See Godatta (2).
• Godha Thera.-A Sākiyan. A conversation between him and Mahānāma the Sākiyan is recorded in the Godha Sutta. S.v.371.
• Godha or Mahānāma Sutta
• Godha Jātaka (No.138)
• Godhā.-See Kāligodhā.
• Godhagatta-Tissa Thera.-He it was who brought about a reconciliation between Dutthagāmanī and his brother Tissa (Mhv.xxiv.49-53). The Commentary (MT.469) explains that he had a cutaneous complaint which made his skin scaly like that of a godha (iguana).
• Godhapura.-See Gonaddhapura.
• Godhāvarī
• Godhī.-Probably the mother of Devadatta, who is sometimes called Godhiputta (Vin.ii.189).
• Godhika Sutta.-Contains the story of Godhika's suicide, mentioned above. S.i.120f.
• Godhika Thera
• Godhika-Mahātissa Thera.-Teacher of Dhammadinna, of Valanga-tissa-pabbata (MT.606).
• Gokanna
• Gokannaka.-See Gokanna (1).
• Gokannanāndanāyaka.-A Damila chief at Mundannānamkotta. Cv.lxxvi.212.
• Gokulanka-vihāra.-A monastery built by cowherds for Dhaniya and his wife after their ordination. Buddhaghosa says that it existed even in his day. SNA.i.46.
• Gokulikā
• Golabāhatittha.-A ford over the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.lxxii.51.
• Golahalā.-The soldiers of a district in South India (Cv.lxxvi.264, 259).
• Golakāla
• Golapānu.-A village given by King Buddhadāsa for the maintenance of the Moraparivena (Cv.xxxvii.173).
• Gola-upāsaka.-A pious man of Gothagāma, so called because he was slightly hunched. His story is given at Ras.ii.170f.
• Gomagga
• Gomatakandarā
• Gomatī.-A channel built by Parakkamabāhu I., branching eastwards from the Mahāvālukagangā (Cv.lxxix.52).
• Gomaya, or Gomayapindī Sutta
• Gomayagāma.-A village in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.3.
• Gona (Gonaka)
• Gonaddha (Gonaddhapura)
• Gonagāmaka.-A landing-place (pattana) at the mouth of the Mahā-kandara river, where Bhaddakaccānā and her companions disembarked. Mhv.viii.25; cf.v.12.
• Gonagāmuka.-A locality near the Kālavāpi where Gokanna was defeated by Rakkhadīvāna (Cv.lxx.70). Is this identical with Gonagāmaka? But see Cv. Trs.i.293, n.1.
• Gonarattha.-A district in North Ceylon, where Māgha and Jayabāhu set up fortifications (Cv.lxxxiii.17).
• Gonaraviya Thera
• Gondā, Gondamittā.-A Yakkhinī, mother of Pola-(Posa)-mittā. MT.260.
• Gondigāma.-A tank constructed by Upatissa II (Cv.xxxvii.185). The village belonging to it was given by Jetthatissa III. to the Jetavana-vihāra (Cv.xliv.97). The tank was restored by Aggabodhi V. Cv.xlviii.9.
• Gonisavihāra.-A vihāra in Ceylon where the young Dhatusena (q.v.) was brought up by his uncle, while he remained in disguise as a monk (Cv.xxxviii.21). Geiger thinks it was to the south of Anurādhapura (Cv. Trs.i.30, n.1).
• Gonnagāma.-A village in Rohana, given by Dappula to the Rājavihāra (Cv.xlv.58).
• Gonnagirika.-A vihāra built by Sūratissa in the eastern quarter of Anurādhapura. Mhv.xxi.4.
• Gonnavitthika.-A village in Rohana, assigned by Dappula to the Cittalapabbatavihāra. Cv.xlv.59.
• Gonusurattha.-A district in North Ceylon, once occupied by Māgha and Jayabāhu (Cv.lxxxiii.17).
• Gopaka
• Gopaka Moggallāna (Sutta)
• Gopaka Sīvalī.-A resident of Ceylon. He built a cetiya in Tālapitthikavihāra. At the moment of his death, remembering this act, he was reborn in the deva-world. VibhA.156.
• Gopāla
• Gopālaka Sutta.-See Cūla-Gopālaka Sutta and Mahā-Gopālaka Sutta.
• Gopālamātā
• Gopālapabbata.-A hill near Pulatthipura, used as a landmark. Cv.lxxviii.65; for identification see Cv. Trs.i.110, n.1.
• Gopī, Gopikā.-The Sākiyan maiden of Kapilavatthu, who was born later as Gopaka-devaputta. See Gopaka (3).
• Gorimanda
• Gosāla
• Gosinga Sutta.-See Cūlagosinga Sutta and Mahāgosinga Sutta.
• Gosingasālavanadāya
• Gosīsanikkhepa Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he had spread gosīsa (sandalwood paste) outside a monastery. Seventy-five kappas ago he became a king, named Suppatitthita (Ap.i.245).
• Gotama
• Gotamā.-Mother of Candakumāra and chief queen of the king of Benares (J.vi.134). She is identified with Mahāmāyā (J.vi.157). She is sometimes also called Gotamī. E.g., J.vi.148, 151.
• Gotamadvāra.-The gate by which the Buddha left Pātaligāma, after having eaten there at the invitation of Sunidha and Vassakāra. Vin.i.230, etc., as above.
• Gotamaka
• Gotamaka Sutta
• Gotamakacetiya
• Gotamatittha.-The ford by which the Buddha crossed the Ganges, after leaving Pātaligāma. See also Gotamadvāra. Vin.i.230; Ud.viii.6; UdA.424; D.ii.89.
• Gotamī Sutta 1.-Māra sees Kisā Gotamī resting alone in the Andhavana and tries to frighten her, but he is forced to retire discomfited. S.i.129.
• Gotamī Sutta 2.-The story of how Pajāpatī Gotamī (q.v.) and her companions obtained the Buddha's sanction to enter the Order and the conditions attaching to that sanction. A.iv.274ff.
• Gotamī, Gotamā.-See Mahā Pajāpatī Gotamī, Kisāgotamī, etc.
• Gotamī.-One of the chief women supporters of Vessabhū Buddha (Bu.xxii.25). The Commentary (BuA., p.208) calls her Kāligotamī.
• Gotamyā.-The name given to the followers of Pajāpatī Gotamī. E.g., DhA.iv.149.
• Gotapabbata.-A vihāra in South Ceylon built by Mahallaka-Nāga (Mhv.xxxv.124). It may be that it is identical with Kotapabbata-vihāra and that Mahallaka merely restored it. v.l. Kotapabbata.
• Gotha.-See Gothayimbara.
• Gothābhaya.-A monk living in the Sanghapāla Parivena. He was the maternal uncle of King Gothakābhaya II, and tried, without success, to win the king over from the influence of Sangamitta. Mhv.xxxvi.115f.
• Gothagāma.-A village on the south coast of Ceylon. Ras.ii.170.
• Gothakābhaya, Gothābhaya
• Gothakasamudda.-The sea near Ceylon, the "shallow sea." Mhv.xxii.49, 85; DA.ii.695.
• Gothayimbara
• Gotta, Goda.-See Godatta (2).
• Govaddhamāna
• Govarattha.-A district in South India (the modern Goa). Vimala-dhammasūriya once took refuge there. Cv.xciv.2.
• Govinda
• Govindamala.-A mountain in Rohana. The ādipāda Bhuvanekabāhu founded a town there and used it as a fortification for Rohana when Māgha's forces overran the country. Cv.lxxxi.6; also Cv.Trs.ii.135, n.4.
• Govindiya.-Evidently the title given to the High Treasurer. It occurs in the phrase Govindiye abhisiñcissāmi, when Disampati proposes to appoint Jotipāla to the rank of Treasurer. D.ii.232, cp. Jānussoni.
• Govisānaka-Nanda.-One of the Nava-Nandā.
• Goyāniya.-A shortened form of Aparagoyāna. J.iv.278, 279; Ap.i.18; ii.348.
• Goyogapilakkha.-A spot near Benares, visited by the Buddha on his begging rounds (A.i.280). The Commentary (AA.i.460) explains that it was near a fig tree (pilakkha) set up at the spot where cows were.
• Guhānahānakottha. One of the eight stone bath-houses erected for the monks at Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.45.
• Guhasela.-A palace occupied by Tissa Buddha before his final renunciation. Bu.xviii.17.
• Guhasīva
• Guhatthaka Sutta
• Gula.-A Yakkha chief who should be invoked when unbelieving Yakkhas molest any follower of the Buddha. D.iii.204.
• Gulapūvatintini.-A place on the outskirts of Anurādhapura, near Cetiyagiri. Ras.ii.50.
• Gulavanna
• Gūlhatthadīpanī.-A work by Sāradassī, explaining difficult passages in the seven books of the Abhidhamma. Sās. p.116; Bode, op. cit., 56.
• Gūlhatthatīkā.-A work, probably a glossary, written by a monk in Burma, author also of the Bālappabodhana. Gv.63, 73; see Vinayagandhi.
• Gūlhummagga, Gūlhavessantara, Gūlhavinaya.-Mentioned in the Commentaries (E.g., Sp.iv.742) as abuddhavacanāni; they were probably books belonging to sects other than the orthodox Theravādins.
• Gulissāni Sutta
• Gulissāni.-A monk living in the wilds, who once came on some business to see the monks at the Kalandakanivāpa. It was on his account that the Gulissāni Sutta was preached. M.i.469.
• Gumbakabhūtā.-The slave woman of Ummādacittā, whose son was entrusted to her that she might bring him to safety. MT.280.
• Gumbika, Gumbiya.-A Yakkha; see the Gumbiya Jātaka.
• Gumbiya Jātaka (No.366)
• Guna Jātaka (No.157)
• Guna
• Gunābhilankāra.-A thera of Tunnagāma. He was one of the originators of the Ekamsika controversy (Sās.118). He was, later on, the incumbent of the Jeyyabhūmi vihāra. (Sās.132, 163).
• Gunagandha.-A scholarly monk of Burma. Sās.111, 112.
• Gunamuninda.-A Rājagura of Burma. Sās.132, 143.
• Gunārāma.-A Thera of Arimaddanapura. King Ujana built for him the Jetavana vihāra. Sās.83.
• Gunaratanadhara.-The name given by Bhuvanekabāhu to one of the monks who came from Ceylon to Burma to take back the pure religion to Ceylon. Sās.45.
• Gunasāgara.-A monk of Burma, author of the Mukhamattasāra and its Tika. Gv., p.63; Bode, op. cit., 25.
• Gunasāra.-A pupil of Gunagandha. He was an inhabitant of Sahasso-rodhagāma. Sās.112, 162, 164.
• Gunasiri.-A pupil of Canda Thera of Repinagāma. He was the teacher of Nānadhaja. Sās.162, 163, 164.
• Gundāvana
• Guralatthakalañcha.-A locality in Ceylon, the centre of a fight between the forces of the Damilādhikāri Rakkha and his enemies. Cv.lxxv.77; Cv.Trs.i.51, n.3.
• Gūtha
• Gūthakhādaka
• Gūthakhādidutthabrāhmana Sutta
• Gūthapāna Jātaka (No.227)
• Gutijjita.-A Pacceka Buddha, whose name occurs in a nominal list. M.iii.70; ApA.i.107.
• Gutta, Guttaka.-A Tamil usurper. He was a horse-dealer and came to Ceylon with another Tamil named Sena. They killed King Sūratissa and reigned at Anurādhapura for twenty-two years (177-155 B.C.). They were killed by Asela. Mhv.xxi.10f; Dpv.xviii.47f.
• Guttā Therī
• Guttasāla, Guttasālaka
• Guttavanka.-See Tanguttavanka.
• Guttila
• Guttila Jātaka (No.243)
• Guttilavimāna