NAME COLLECTION
Buddhist tradition names
People around the Buddha as told in Paul Carus’s Gospel of Buddha, and the synonyms of the Buddha listed in the Amarakośa.
This collection follows names to their sources. It describes where a name comes from, not who uses it.
People in the Buddha’s story
Siddhartha
Ch. IV "Bodhisattva's Birth": the infant is named Siddhartha, "he who has accomplished his purpose"
Gautama
Ch. IV: the Ikshvaku "who call themselves Gautama"; Ch. XV addresses the Buddha as "Venerable Gautama"
Name page →Ananda
Ch. XXIX "Rahula": among those who joined the Sangha, "Ananda, Siddhartha's half-brother, the son of Prajapati"
Name page →Rahula
Ch. V "The Ties of Life": the son born to Siddhartha and Yashodhara, "whom they named Rahula"; Ch. XXIX "Rahula"
Name page →Yashodhara
Ch. V: Siddhartha "selected Yashodhara, his cousin, the gentle daughter of the king of Koli"; Ch. XXVIII "Yashodhara"
Shariputra
Ch. XXIII "Shariputra and Maudgalyayana": "two Brahmans and chiefs of the followers of Sanjaya" who become disciples
Maudgalyayana
Ch. XXIII
Kashyapa
Ch. XX "Kashyapa": chief of the Jatilas, fire-worshippers at Uruvilva
Upali
Ch. XXIX: "Upali the barber" among those who joined the Sangha
Sujata
Carus, Table of Reference/Glossary: "Nanda, daughter of a chief of shepherds, also called Sujata"
Name page →Maitreya
Ch. XCVI "Maitreya"; Glossary: "Maitreya... etymology 'full of kindness'; the name of the Buddha to come"
Jivaka
Ch. XXXI "Jivaka, the Physician": physician to King Bimbisara who ministers to the Buddha
Vishakha
Ch. XXXV "Vishakha": a wealthy woman of Shravasti who gave the Eastern Garden to the order
Ambapali
Ch. XCII "Ambapali"
Bimbisara
Ch. VIII "King Bimbisara"
Shuddhodana
Ch. IV: Siddhartha's father, "Shuddhodana or Pure-Rice"; Ch. XXVII "Buddha's Father"
Maya-devi
Ch. IV: Shuddhodana's wife "Maya-devi"; Amarakośa 1.1.30 lists māyādevīsuta
Name page →Epithets of the Buddha in the Amarakośa
Sarvajña
Amarakośa 1.1.25
Sugata
Amarakośa 1.1.25
Buddha
Amarakośa 1.1.25
Name page →Dharmarāja
Amarakośa 1.1.25
Tathāgata
Amarakośa 1.1.25
Samantabhadra
Amarakośa 1.1.26
Bhagavān
Amarakośa 1.1.26
Name page →Mārajit
Amarakośa 1.1.26
Lokajit
Amarakośa 1.1.26
Jina
Amarakośa 1.1.26
Ṣaḍabhijña
Amarakośa 1.1.27
Daśabala
Amarakośa 1.1.27
Advayavādin
Amarakośa 1.1.27
Vināyaka
Amarakośa 1.1.27
Name page →Munīndra
Amarakośa 1.1.28
Śrīghana
Amarakośa 1.1.28
Śāstā
Amarakośa 1.1.28
Muni
Amarakośa 1.1.28
Name page →Śākyamuni
Amarakośa 1.1.28
Śākyasiṃha
Amarakośa 1.1.29
Sarvārthasiddha
Amarakośa 1.1.29
Śauddhodani
Amarakośa 1.1.29
Gautama
Amarakośa 1.1.30
Name page →Arkabandhu
Amarakośa 1.1.30
Sources
- Paul Carus, The Gospel of Buddha, compiled from ancient records (Chicago, Open Court, 1894), Project Gutenberg #35895 / archive.org gospelofbuddhaa00caru ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Amarasiṃha, Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana (Amarakośa), kāṇḍa 1; GRETIL e-text (Avinash Sathaye, Pramod S. V. Ganesan) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (local copy sources/cologne/mw.txt) ↗ (opens in a new tab)