Puṇṇaka untranslated

Puṇṇaka 01. One of the stallions of Ekarāja. Ja.vi.135.

Puṇṇaka 02. One of the sixteen disciples of Bāvarī, who visited the Buddha (Snp. vs. 1006). His conversation with the Buddha is given in the Puṇṇakamāṇavapucchā (Snp. vs. 1043-48). At the end of the interview Puṇṇaka and his one thousand followers became Arahants. Snp­a.ii.590.

Puṇṇaka 03. A Yakkha chief, nephew of Vessavaṇa (Ja.vi.255). The story of how he won the Nāga maiden Irandatī is related in the Vidhurapaṇḍitajātaka (Ja 545). In his previous birth he had been a young man named Kaccāyana in the Aṅga country. Ja.vi.273f.; he is also called Kātiyāna (Kaccāna). He is also referred to as Puṇṇakarājā (Ja.iv.182). He is evidently identical with the Yakkha chieftain mentioned in the Āṭānāṭiyasutta (DN.iii.204) among those to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in times of tribulation. The gem used by Puṇṇaka as a stake in his gambling with Koravya was such that all things in the world could be seen in it (Mhv­ṭ. 552). The shout of victory uttered by Puṇṇaka when he defeated Koravya was one of the four shouts heard throughout Jambudīpa. Snp­a.i.223.

Puṇṇaka 04. A king of twenty-five kappas ago, a former birth of Asanabodhiya Thera. Ap.i.111.

Puṇṇaka 05. Puṇṇaka was evidently not a name of high station, e.g., Ja.vi.273.

Puṇṇaka 06. See also s.v. Puṇṇa.