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title: The Sutta-Nipata - Glossary
description: "one belonging to a sect of naked ascetics."
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| **EXPLANATION OF WORDS** | |
| **the meaning of which is not always given in the translation.** | |


Âgîvika,

 one belonging to a sect of naked ascetics.

Arahat,

 a holy man, a saint.

Ariya,

 noble.

Bhagavat,

 worshipful; blessed, a name of a Buddha.

Bhikkhu,

 a mendicant.

Brahman,

 the supreme god of the Hindus.

Brâhmana,

 a sage.

Buddha,

 enlightened, a name of certain holy men who have freed themselves from existence, particularly of Samana Gotama.

Dhamma,

 tenet, doctrine, custom, law, religion, virtue, thing.

Gahattha,

 Gihin, a householder.

Gotama,

 a name of the last Buddha.

G

atila, an ascetic wearing clotted hair.

G

ina, a conqueror, a name of a Buddha.

Isi,

 a sage.

Khattiya,

 a warrior, a prince.

K

andâla, an outcast.

Mâra,

 a name of the king of death, the devil.

Muni,

 a thinker, a sage.

Nâga,

 an eminent man; sinless?

Namuki

 = Mâra.

Nibbâna,

 extinction, the state of bliss of the Buddhist.

Nigantha,

 a naked ascetic.

Pabbaggâ,

 leaving the world, embracing ascetic life, taking the robe.

Pabbagita,

 an ascetic, having taken the robe.

Paribbâga,

 Paribbâgaka, a wandering mendicant.

Sakka = Sakya,

 belonging to the Sakya tribe.

Sakyamuni,

 the Sakya sage, a name of Buddha.

Samana,

 an ascetic.

Samkhârâ,

 all compound things, the material world.

Samsâra,

 revolution, transmigration.

Sâvaka,

 a hearer, a follower, a disciple of Buddha, including both laity and clergy.

Sekha,

 a novice, student.

Sudda,

 a man of the servile caste.

Sugata,

 happy, a name of a Buddha.

Thera,

 an elder, a senior priest.

Titthiya,

 an ascetic adhering to a certain system of philosophy.

Upadhi,

 the elements of the world.

Upâsaka,

 a follower, a lay devotee.

Upasampadâ,

 priest's orders.

Vessa, Vessika,

 a man of the third caste.

Yakkha,

 a giant, a malignant spirit.