Suttas by Individual

The suttas are full of people — monks and nuns, kings and brahmins, deities and adversaries. Explore the discourses through who appears in them.

193 named individuals across the classified suttas

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Moḷiyaphagguna3Māluṅkyaputta3Jāṇussoṇi3Soṇa the householder’s son3Assaji3Nandiya3Pañcakaṅga3Khemā3Upavaṇa3Uttara3Cunda3Hāliddakāni3Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta2Susima2Mahali the Licchavi2Channa2Sunakkhatta the Licchavi2Jīvaka Komārabhacca2Mahākappina2Migajāla2Saccaka2Kimbila2Revata2Uttiya2Matali the charioteer2Ven. Bhūmija2Soma2Anurādha2Prince Jayasena2Lohicca2Prince Abhaya2Ariṭṭha2Puṇṇa2Nanda2Nandaka2Puṇṇa Mantāṇiputta2Ven. Tissa2Kāmabhū2Nakulapita2Bāhiya2Navakammika Bhāradvāja1Paccanikasāta1Pañcālacaṇḍa the Deva’s Son1Pañcasikha1Pessa the elephant driver’s son1Phagguna1Pilotika1Venerable Piṇḍola Bharadvāja1Piṅgalakoccha1Potaliputta the wanderer1Potaliya the householder1Poṭṭhapāda the wanderer1Pukkusāti1Punabbasuka1Raga1Rohitassa the Deva’s Son1Sabhiya Kaccana1Sakulā1Sakuludāyin1Saṅgārava1young brahman Sañjikāputta1Sāti, the fisherman's son1Saviṭṭha1Sela1Seniya, a naked dog-duty ascetic1Serī the Deva's Son1householder Sirivaḍḍha1Sīsupacālā1Sivaka1Subha, Todeyya’s son1brahmin student Subha1Subrahma the Deva's Son1Sujāta1Suppiya1Venerable Suradha1Tālapuṭa1Taṇha1Tāyana the Deva’s Son1Bhikkhunī Thullatissa1Timbaruka1Udaya1Uddaka Ramaputta1King Udena1Uggāhamāna1Ugga of Hatthigama1Ugga of Vesālī1Uṇṇābha the brahman1Upacala1Upāli1Venerable Upasena1Uppalavaṇṇā1Vajira1Vajjian Princeling1Vakkali1Ven. Vaṅgīsa1Varadhara1Vassakāra1brahmin lady of the Verahaccani clan1Verocana, Lord of the Asuras1Very Rich Brahman1Vijaya1Vipassī1Visākhā1Venerable Visakha Pañcaliputta1Yamaka1Yodhājīva the headman1Abhiñjika1novice Aciravata1Akkosaka Bhāradvāja1Āḷavaka yakkha1bhikkhuni Aḷavika1Annabhāra1Arati1Assalāyana1Venerable Bhaddāli1Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf1Bhaṇḍa1Bhāradvāja1Prince Bodhi1Brahmadatta1Brahmāyu1Cālā1Cankī1Cūḷakokanada, Pajjunna’s younger daughter1Dāmali the Deva’s Son1Daṇḍapāṇi the Sakyan1Venerable Dasaka1householder Dasama of Aṭṭhakanāgara1Devadatta1Dhammadinnā1Dīghanakha1Dīgha Tapassin1Gaṇaka Moggallāna the brahman1Gandhabhaka the headman1Gavampati1Ghaṭikara1Ghosita1Ven. Godatta1Godha the Sakyan1Venerable Godhika1Golissāni1Brahmin Gopaka Moggallāna1Isidatta1Jālinī1Jambukhādaka1Jantu the deva’s son1Jaṭā Bhāradvāja1Kaccānagotta1Kaḷāra the Khattiya1Kandaraka the wanderer1Ven. Kassapa Gotta1Kevaṭṭa1Khemaka1Kisāgotamī1Kokanada, Pajjunna’s daughter1Kumārakassapa1Kuṇḍaliya1Ven. Lomasakaṁbhiya1Māgandiya1Venerable Mahaka1Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī1Queen Mallikā1Manadinna1Maṇibhadda1Maṇicūḷaka1Migāra’s mother1Moḷiyasīvaka1Venerable Musīla1Venerable Narada1