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Worldly conditions, eight (aṭṭha lokadhammā)

World-transcending (lokuttara) teaching /path

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

Ajātasattu Vedehiputta, King

Āḷāra Kālāma

Ānanda, Venerable

Anāthapiṇḍika, householder

Araka, religious teacher

Ārāmadaṇḍa, brahmin

Assalāyana, brahmin student

Bārāṇasī

Bhadraka, headman

Brahmā

Brahmā Sahampati

Caṇkī, brahmin

Daḷhanemi, King

Dāsaka, Venerable

Devadatta

Dīghajānu (Byagghapajja)

Dīghāvu, lay follower

Ganges, river

Isipatana

Jambudīpa

Jambukhādaka, wanderer

Jāṇusoṇi, brahmin

Jetavana

Jotika, householder

Kaccānagotta, Venerable

Kālāmas

Kamboja

Kāpaṭhika (Bhāradvāja), brahmin student

Kesaputta

Khemaka, Venerable

Koṇḍañña, Venerable

Koravya, King

Kūṭadanta, brahmin

Māgandiya, wanderer

Mahākaccāna, Venerable

Mahānāma the Sakyan

Mahāvijita, King

Māluṇkyaputta, Venerable

Māra

Nakulamātā, housewife

Nakulapitā, householder

Naḷakāra

Nandana Grove

Pasenadi, King

Pāvā

Pilotika (Vacchāyana)

Potaliya, householder

Pukkusāti, Venerable

Rājagaha

Raṭṭhapāla, Venerable

Saccaka (Aggivessana)

Sakka, ruler of devas

Sālā, brahmin village

Saṅgārava, brahmin

Sārandada Shrine

Sāriputta, Venerable

Sāvatthī

Senānigama

Sigālaka, householder’s son

Subha, brahmin student

Sujāta, daughter-in-law

Suppavāsā, Koliyan lady

Tāvatiṃsa devas/heaven

Thullakoṭṭhita

Tusita, devas/heaven

Udāyī, Venerable

Uddaka Rāmaputta

Upaka, Ājīvaka

Uruvelā

Uruvelakappa

Vacchagotta, wanderer

Vajjians

Vassakāra, brahmin

Velāma, brahmin

Vesālī

Visākhā, Migāra’s mother

Yama

Yāma devas/heaven

Yona

INDEX OF SIMILES

Ancient city

Bag full of different grains

Ball of bath powder

Balls of clay

Banana-tree trunk

Basket made of lotus leaves

Basket made of pine needles

Bit of soil in the fingernail

Bitter seeds yield bitter fruits

Blazing grass torch

Blind men and the elephant

Blind men walking in file

Bolt

Bowls of water

Burden

Business succeeds, man whose

Changing postures from coarse to subtle

Charcoal pit

Cleaning a soiled cloth

Cow cut up into pieces

Cow led to slaughter

Crossbar

Dart, man struck by

Desert, man who crosses

Dew drop on a blade of grass

Divine messengers

Dog on a leash

Dream of lovely parks

Elephant’s footprints

Extinguished fire

Extracting a coarse peg with a fine peg

Fire-sticks

Goods borrowed on loan

Grass and sticks in Jambudīpa

Handful of leaves

Heartwood from a tree

Herd of deer

Horror at the carcass of a snake

Illness, man who recovers from

Lake whose waters well up from below

Lathe-worker making a turn

Leper cured of leprosy

Leper scratching his scabs

Line drawn on water

Lion

Lotuses in a pond

Lump of foam

Lump of spittle

Magical illusion

Mirage

Moon’s radiance

Morning star at dawn

Mountain lake, man looking into

Mountain made of stone

Mountain stream

Mountains coming this way

Ocean deep and immeasurable

Oil-lamp deprived of fuel

Piece of meat seized by a hawk

Piece of meat thrown on a pan

Pillar

Poisoned arrow, man hit by

Prison, man released from

Recollects his travels among villages, a man

Refinement of gold

River Ganges reaches the sea

Sands of the river Ganges

Scent of a lotus

Sees people moving between two houses, a man

Shutting one’s eyes to avoid seeing forms

Skeleton of meatless bones

Slavery, man released from

Stone pillar sunk in the ground

Stream of blood

Stream of tears

Strong man beating down a weaker man

Sun and moon arising in the world

Sun dispelling darkness of space

Swimming across the river Ganges

Tank with four inlets and outlets

Three fires

Tree laden with fruit

Trench

Two-handled saw

Water bubble

Way to his village, man who knows the

Wheel-turning monarch

White cloth, man covered by

Wise gatekeeper

Young deva in Nandana Grove

INDEX OF SELECTED PĀLI SUTTA TITLES

*: excerpt from a longer sutta

Acchariya-abbhuta Sutta (MN 123)

Ādittapariyāya Sutta