Legends of the Buddhist Saints

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter № of Poems
  2. The Legend of the Buddhas (1)
  3. The Legend of the Lonely Buddhas (1)
    1. Sāriputta
    2. Mahā-Moggallāna
    3. Mahākassapa
    4. Anuruddha
    5. Puṇṇa-Mantāniputta
    6. Upāli
    7. Aññākoṇḍañña
    8. Piṇḍola-Bhāradvāja
    9. Khadiravaniya Revata
    10. Ānanda
    11. Sīhāsanadāyaka
    12. Ekatthambhika
    13. Nanda
    14. Culla-Panthaka
    15. Pilindavaccha
    16. Rāhula
    17. Upasena Vaṅgantaputta
    18. Raṭṭhapāla
    19. Sopāka
    20. Sumaṅgala
    21. Subhūti
    22. Upavāna
    23. Tīṇisaraṇāgamaniya
    24. Pañcasīlasamādāniya
    25. Annasaṃsāvaka
    26. Dhūpadāyaka
    27. Puḷinapūjaka
    28. Uttiya
    29. Ekañjalika
    30. Khomadāyaka
    31. Kuṇḍadhāna
    32. Sāgata
    33. Mahā-Kaccāna
    34. Kāḷudāyi
    35. Mogharāja
    36. Adhimutta
    37. Lasuṇadāyaka
    38. Āyāgadāyaka
    39. Dhammacakkika
    40. Kapparukkhiya
    41. Upāli
    42. Koliyavessa
    43. Bhaddiya-Kaḷigodhāya-Putta
    44. Sannidhāpaka
    45. Pañcahatthiya
    46. Padumacchadaniya
    47. Sayanadāyaka
    48. Cankamadāyaka
    49. Subhadda
    50. Cunda
    51. Vidhūpanadāyaka
    52. Sataraŋsika
    53. Sayanadāyaka
    54. Gandhodaka
    55. Opavuyha
    56. Saparivārāsana
    57. Pañcadīpika
    58. Dhajadāyaka
    59. Paduma
    60. Asanabodhiya
    61. Sakacittaniya
    62. Āvopupphiya
    63. Paccāgamanīya
    64. Parappasādaka
    65. Bhisadāyaka
    66. Sucintita
    67. Vatthadāyaka
    68. Ambadāyaka
    69. Sumana
    70. Pupphacaṅgoṭiya
    71. Nāgasamāla
    72. Padasaññaka
    73. Saññaka
    74. Bhisāluvadāyaka
    75. Ekasaññaka
    76. Tiṇasanthāradāyaka
    77. Sūcidāyaka
    78. Pāṭalipupphiya
    79. Ṭhitañjaliya
    80. Tīṇipadumiya
    81. Timirapupphiya
    82. Gatasaññaka
    83. Nipannañjalika
    84. Adhopupphiya
    85. Raṃsisaññika
    86. Raṃsisaññaka
    87. Phaladāyaka
    88. Saddasaññaka
    89. Bodhisaññaka
    90. Padumapupphiya
    91. Sudhāpiṇḍiya
    92. Sucintita
    93. Aḍḍhacelaka
    94. Sucidāyaka
    95. Gandhamāliya
    96. Tipupphiya
    97. Madhupiṇḍika
    98. Senāsanadāyaka
    99. Veyyāvaccaka
    100. Buddhūpaṭṭhāka
    101. Bhikkhadāyī
    102. Ñāṇasaññaka
    103. Uppalahatthiya
    104. Padapūjaka
    105. Muṭṭhipupphiya
    106. Udakapūjaka
    107. Naḷamāliya
    108. Āsanūpaṭṭāyaka
    109. Biḷālidāyaka
    110. Reṇupūjaka
    111. Mahāparivāra
    112. Sumaṅgala
    113. Saraṇāgamaniya
    114. Ekāsaniya
    115. Suvaṇṇapupphiya
    116. Citakapūjaka
    117. Buddhasaññaka
    118. Maggasaññaka
    119. Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka
    120. Jātipūjaka
    121. Sereyyaka
    122. Pupphathūpiya
    123. Pāyāsadāyaka
    124. Gandhodakiya
    125. Sammukhāthavika
    126. Kusumāsaniya
    127. Phaladāyaka
    128. Ñāṇasaññaka
    129. Gandhapupphiya
    130. Padumapūjaka
    131. Sobhita
    132. Sudassana
    133. Candanapūjaka
    134. Pupphachadanīya
    135. Rahosaññaka
    136. Campakapupphiya
    137. Atthasandassaka
    138. Ekapasādaniya
    139. Sālapupphadāyaka
    140. Piyālaphaladāyaka
    141. Adhicchattiya
    142. Thambāropaka
    143. Vedikāraka
    144. Saparivāriya
    145. Ummāpupphiya
    146. Anulepadāyaka
    147. Maggadāyaka
    148. Phalakadāyaka
    149. Vaṭaṃsakiya
    150. Pallaṅkadāyaka
    151. Bandhujīvaka
    152. Tambapupphiya
    153. Vīthisammajjaka
    154. Kakkārupūjaka
    155. Mandāravapūjaka
    156. Kadambapupphiya
    157. Tiṇasulaka
    158. Nāgapupphiya
    159. Punnāgapupphiya
    160. Kumudadāyaka
    161. Supāricariya
    162. Kaṇaverapupphiya
    163. Khajjakadāyaka
    164. Desapūjaka
    165. Kaṇikāracchadaniya
    166. Sappidāyaka
    167. Yūthikapupphiya
    168. Dussadāyaka
    169. Samādapaka
    170. Pañcaṅguliya
    171. Kumudamāliya
    172. Nisseṇidāyaka
    173. Rattipupphiya
    174. Udapānadāyaka
    175. Sīhāsanadāyaka
    176. Maggadattika
    177. Ekadīpiya
    178. Maṇipūjaka
    179. Tikicchaka
    180. Saṅghupaṭṭhāka
    181. Kuṭajapupphiya
    182. Bandhujīvaka
    183. Koṭumbariya
    184. Pañcahatthiya
    185. Isimuggadāyaka
    186. Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka
    187. Ekacintita
    188. Tikaṇṇipupphiya
    189. Ekacāriya
    190. Tivaṇṭipupphiya
    191. Tamālapupphiya
    192. Tiṇasantharadāyaka
    193. Khaṇḍaphulliya
    194. Asokapūjaka
    195. Aṅkolaka
    196. Kisalayapūjaka
    197. Tindukadāyaka
    198. Muṭṭhipūjaka
    199. Kiṅkaṇipupphiya
    200. Yūthikāpupphiya
    201. Kaṇikārapupphiya
    202. Vinelapupphiya
    203. Kiṅkaṇikapupphiya
    204. Taraṇiya
    205. Nigguṇḍipupphiya
    206. Udakadāyaka
    207. Salaḷamāliya
    208. Koraṇḍapupphiya
    209. Ādhāradāyaka
    210. Vātātapanivāriya
    211. Hatthidāyaka
    212. Pānadhidāyaka
    213. Saccasaññaka
    214. Ekasaññaka
    215. Raŋsisaññaka
    216. Saṇṭhita
    217. Tālavaṇṭadāyaka
    218. Akkantasaññaka
    219. Sappidāyaka
    220. Pāpanivāriya
    221. Ālambanadāyaka
    222. Ajinadāyaka
    223. Dverataniya
    224. Ārakkhadāyaka
    225. Avyādhika
    226. Aṅkolapupphiya
    227. Vaṭaŋsakiya
    228. Miñjavaṭaŋsakiya
    229. Sukatāveḷiya
    230. Ekavandiya
    231. Udakāsanadāyaka
    232. Bhājanadāyaka
    233. Sālapupphiya
    234. Kilañjadāyaka
    235. Vediyadāyaka
    236. Vaṇṇakāraka
    237. Piyālapupphiya
    238. Ambayāgadāyaka
    239. Jagatikāraka
    240. Vāsidāyaka
    241. Tuvaradāyaka
    242. Nāgakesariya
    243. Naḷinakesariya
    244. Viravapupphiya
    245. Kuṭidhūpaka
    246. Pattadāyaka
    247. Dhātupūjaka
    248. Pāṭalipūjaka
    249. Bimbijāliya
    250. Uddāladāyaka
    251. Thomadāyaka
    252. Ekāsanadāyaka
    253. Citapūjaka
    254. Ticampakapupphiya
    255. Sattapāṭaliya
    256. ‘Pāhanadāyaka
    257. Mañjaripūjaka
    258. Paṇṇadāyaka
    259. Kuṭidāyaka
    260. Aggapupphiya
    261. Ākāsukkhipiya
    262. Telamakkhiya
    263. Aḍḍhacandiya
    264. Araṇadīpiya
    265. Biḷālidāyaka
    266. Macchadāyaka
    267. Javahaŋsaka
    268. Saḷalapupphiya
    269. Upāgatabhāsaniya
    270. Taraṇiya
    271. Suvaṇṇabimbohaniya
    272. Tilamuṭṭhidāyaka
    273. Caṅgoṭakiya
    274. Abbhañjanadāyaka
    275. Ekañjaliya
    276. Potthadāyaka
    277. Citakapūjaka
    278. Āluvadāyaka
    279. Ekapuṇḍarīka
    280. Taraṇiya
    281. Paṇṇadāyaka
    282. Phaladāyaka
    283. Paccuggamaniya
    284. Ekapupphiya
    285. Maghavapupphiya
    286. Upaṭṭhāyaka
    287. Apadāniya
    288. Sattāhapabbajita
    289. Buddhūpaṭṭhāyaka
    290. Pubbaṅgamaniya
    291. Citapūjaka
    292. Pupphadhāraka
    293. Chattadāyaka
    294. Saddasaññaka
    295. Gosīsanikkhepa
    296. Padapūjaka
    297. Desakittiya
    298. Saraṇagamaniya
    299. Ambapiṇḍiya
    300. Anusaŋsāvaka
    301. Padumakesariya
    302. Sabbagandhiya
    303. Paramannadāyaka
    304. Dhammasaññaka
    305. Phaladāyaka
    306. Sampasādaka
    307. Ārāmadāyaka
    308. Anulepadāyaka
    309. Buddhasaññaka
    310. Pabbhāradāyaka
    311. Ārakkhadāyaka
    312. Bhojanadāyaka
    313. Gatasaññaka
    314. Sattapadumiya
    315. Pupphâsaniya
    316. Āsanatthavika
    317. Saddasaññaka
    318. Tiraŋsiya
    319. Kandalīpupphiya
    320. Kumudamāliya
    321. Ummāpupphiya
    322. Pulinapūjaka
    323. Hāsajanaka
    324. Saññasāmika
    325. Nimittasaññaka
    326. Annasaŋsāvaka
    327. Nigguṇḍipupphiya
    328. Sumanāveliya
    329. Pupphacchattiya
    330. Saparivārachattadāyaka
    331. Gandhathūpiya
    332. Udakapūjaka
    333. Punnāgapupphiya
    334. Ekadussadāyaka
    335. Phussitakammiya
    336. Pabhaṅkara
    337. Tiṇakuṭidāyaka
    338. Uttareyyadāyaka
    339. Dhammasavaniya
    340. Ukkhittapadumiya
    341. Ekapadumiya
    342. Tīṇuppalamāliya
    343. Dhajadāyaka
    344. Tīṇikiṅkhaṇikapūjaka
    345. Nalāgārika
    346. Campakapupphiya
    347. Padumapūjaka
    348. Tiṇamuṭṭhidāyaka
    349. Tiṇḍukaphaladāyaka
    350. Ekañjaliya
    351. Saddasaññaka
    352. Yavakalāpiya
    353. Kiŋsukapūjaka
    354. Sakoṭakakoraṇḍadāyaka
    355. Daṇḍadāyaka
    356. Ambayāgudāyaka
    357. Supuṭakapūjaka
    358. Sajjhadāyaka
    359. Saraṇāgamaniya
    360. Piṇḍapātika
    361. Ekamandāriya
    362. Kekkhārupupphiya
    363. Bhisamuḷāladāyaka
    364. Kesarapupphiya
    365. Aṅkolapupphiya
    366. Kadambapupphiya
    367. Uddālapupphiya
    368. Ekacampakapupphiya
    369. Timirapupphiya
    370. Salaḷapupphiya
    371. Bodhivandaka
    372. Pāṭalipupphiya
    373. Tīṇuppalamāliya
    374. Paṭṭipupphiya
    375. Sattapaṇṇiya
    376. Gandhamuṭṭhiya
    377. Citapūjaka
    378. Sumanatālavaṇṭiya
    379. Sumanadāmadāyaka
    380. Kāsumāriphaladāyaka
    381. Avaṇṭaphaladāyaka
    382. Labujaphaladāyaka
    383. Udumbaraphaladāyaka
    384. Pilakkhaphaladāyaka
    385. Phārusaphaladāyaka
    386. Valliphaladāyaka
    387. Kadalīphaladāyaka
    388. Panasaphaladāyaka
    389. Soṇakoṭivīsa
    390. The Rags of Previous Karma
    391. Pilindavaccha
    392. Sela
    393. Sabbakittika
    394. Madhudāyaka
    395. Padumakūṭāgāriya
    396. Bakkula
    397. Girimānanda
    398. Salaḷamaṇḍapiya
    399. Sabbadāyaka
    400. Ajita
    401. Tissametteyya
    402. Puṇṇaka
    403. Mettagu
    404. Dhotaka
    405. Upasīva
    406. Nanda
    407. Hemaka
    408. Todeyya
    409. Jatukaṇṇika
    410. Udena
    411. Bhaddāli
    412. Ekachattiya
    413. Tiṇasūlakachādaniya
    414. Madhumaŋsadāyaka
    415. Nāgapallavaka
    416. Ekadīpiya
    417. Ucchaṅgapupphiya
    418. Yāgudāyaka
    419. Patthodanadāyaka
    420. Mañcadāyaka
    421. Sakiŋsammajjaka
    422. Ekadussadāyaka
    423. Ekâsanadāyaka
    424. Sattakadambapupphiya
    425. Koraṇḍapupphiya
    426. Ghatamaṇḍadāyaka
    427. Ekadhammasavanīya
    428. Sucintita
    429. Sovaṇṇakiṅkhaniya
    430. Sovaṇṇakattarika
    431. Ekavihāriya
    432. Ekasaṅkhiya
    433. Pāṭihīrasaññaka
    434. Ñāṇathavika
    435. Ucchukaṇḍika
    436. Kalambadāyaka
    437. Ambāṭaka
    438. Harīṭakadāyaka
    439. Ambapiṇḍiya
    440. Jambuphaliya
    441. Vibhīṭakamiñjaya
    442. Koladāyaka
    443. Billaphaliya
    444. Bhallāṭakadāyaka
    445. Utuḷhipupphiya
    446. Ambāṭakiya
    447. Sīhāsanika
    448. Pādapīṭhiya
    449. Vedikāraka
    450. Bodhighariya
    451. Jagatidāyaka
    452. Morahatthiya
    453. Sīhāsanavījanīya
    454. Tiṇukkadhāriya
    455. Akkamanadāyaka
    456. Vanakoraṇḍiya
    457. Ekachattiya
    458. Jātipupphiya
    459. Paṭṭipupphiya
    460. Gandhapūjaka
    461. Sālakusumiya
    462. Citapūjaka
    463. Citakanibbāpaka
    464. Setudāyaka
    465. Sumanatālavaṇṭiya
    466. Avaṇṭaphaliya
    467. Labujadāyaka
    468. Pilakkhaphaladāyaka
    469. Sayampaṭibhāṇiya
    470. Nimittavyākaraṇiya
    471. Naḷamāliya
    472. Maṇipūjaka
    473. Ukkāsatika
    474. Sumanavījaniya
    475. Kummāsadāyaka
    476. Kusaṭṭhakadāyaka
    477. Giripunnāgiya
    478. Vallikāraphaladāyaka
    479. Pānadhidāyaka
    480. Pulinacaṅkamiya
    481. Paŋsukūlasaññika
    482. Buddhasaññaka
    483. Bhisadāyaka
    484. Ñāṇatthavika
    485. Candanamāliya
    486. Dhātupūjaka
    487. Puḷinuppādaka
    488. Taraṇiya
    489. Dhammarucī
    490. Sālamaṇḍapiya
    491. Tīṇikiṅkhanipupphiya
    492. Paŋsukūlapūjaka
    493. Koraṇḍapupphiya
    494. Kiŋsukapupphiya
    495. Upaḍḍhadussadāyaka
    496. Ghatamaṇḍadāyaka
    497. Udakadāyaka
    498. Puḷinathūpiya
    499. Naḷakuṭikadāyaka
    500. Piyālaphaladāyaka
    501. Tīṇikaṇikārapupphiya
    502. Ekapattadāyaka
    503. Kāsumāriphaladāyaka
    504. Avaṭaphaliya
    505. Pāraphaliya
    506. Mātuluṅgaphaladāyaka
    507. Ajelaphaladāyaka
    508. Amoraphaliya
    509. Tālaphaliya
    510. Nāḷikeradāyaka
    511. Kureñjiyaphaladāyaka
    512. Kapitthaphaladāyaka
    513. Kosumbhaphaliya
    514. Ketakapupphiya
    515. Nāgapupphiya
    516. Ajjunapupphiya
    517. Kuṭajapupphiya
    518. Ghosasaññaka
    519. Sabbaphaladāyaka
    520. Padumadhāriya
    521. Tiṇamuṭhidāyaka
    522. Pecchadāyaka
    523. Saraṇāgamaniya
    524. Abbhañjanadāyaka
    525. Supaṭadāyaka
    526. Daṇḍadāyaka
    527. Girinelapūjaka
    528. Bodhisammajjaka
    529. Āmaṇḍaphaladāyaka
    530. Sugandha
    531. Mahākaccāna
    532. Vakkali
    533. Mahākappina
    534. Dabbamalla
    535. Kumāra-Kassapa
    536. Bāhiya
    537. Mahākoṭṭhika
    538. Uruvelakassapa
    539. Rādha
    540. Mogharāja
    541. Lakuṇṭakabhaddiya
    542. Kaṅkha-Revata
    543. Sīvali
    544. Vaṅgīsa
    545. Nandaka
    546. Kāḷudāyi
    547. Abhaya
    548. Lomasakaṅgiya
    549. Vanavaccha
    550. Cūlasugandha
    551. Yasa
    552. Nadī-Kassapa
    553. Gayā-Kassapa
    554. Kimbila
    555. Vajjīputta
    556. Uttara
    557. Apara Uttara
    558. Bhaddajī
    559. Sīvaka
    1. Sumedhā
    2. Mekhalādāyikā
    3. Maṇḍapadāyikā
    4. Saṅkamanattā
    5. Tīṇinaḷamālikā
    6. Ekapiṇḍadāyikā
    7. Kaṭacchubhikkhadāyikā
    8. Sattuppalamālikāya
    9. Pañcadīpikā
    10. Udakadāyikā
    11. Ekūposathikā
    12. Salalapupphikā
    13. Modakadāyikā
    14. Ekāsanadāyikā
    15. Pañcadīpikā
    16. Sālamālikā
    17. Gotamī
    18. Khemā
    19. Uppalavaṇṇā
    20. Paṭācārā
    21. Bhaddā-Kuṇḍalakesā
    22. Kisāgotamī
    23. Dhammadinnā
    24. Sakulā
    25. Nandā (Janapadakalyāṇi)
    26. Soṇā
    27. Bhaddā-Kāpilāni
    28. Yasodharā
    29. Ten Thousand Buddhist Nuns Headed Up by Yasovatī
    30. Eighteen Thousand Buddhist Nuns Headed Up by Yasodharā
    31. Eighteen Thousand Kṣatriyan Maiden Buddhist Nuns Headed Up by Yasavatī
    32. Eighty-Four Thousand Brahmin Maiden Buddhist Nuns
    33. Uppaladāyikā
    34. Sigālaka-mātā
    35. Sukkā
    36. Abhirūpanandā
    37. Aḍḍhakāsikā
    38. Puṇṇikā
    39. Ambapālī
    40. Selā

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Introduction

Legends of the Buddhist Saints (Apadāna) is a collection of about six hundred autobiographical poems ascribed to the accomplished Buddhas and Arahants of the early Buddhist community. Composed in India in the Pāli language around the second century, B.C.E., the collection has been preserved for more than two thousand years. Apadāna is the source of many of the best-loved stories of the saints in the Buddhist world. It is also a particularly rich and colorful source for the social and religious history of ancient India.

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