Soṇuttara untranslated

Soṇuttara 01. Soṇuttara Thera. An Arahant. He lived in the Pūjāpariveṇa in the Mahā Vihāra and was entrusted by Duṭṭhagāmaṇī with the task of finding relics for the Mahā Thūpa. In the time of the Buddha he had been the Brahmin Nanduttara, and had entertained the Buddha on the occasion on which, at Payāgatittha, Bhaddaji Thera had raised, from the bed of the Ganges, the palace he had occupied as Mahā Panāda. Filled with marvel, Nanduttara wished that he might have the power of procuring relics possessed by others. Soṇuttara visited the Mañjerika nāgabhavana and asked the Nāga king, Mahā Kāḷa, to give him the relics which he had there and which had once been enshrined in Rāmagāma. But Mahā Kāḷa, unwilling to part with them, told his nephew, Vāsuladatta, to hide them. Soṇuttara knew this, and when Mahā Kāḷa told him he might take the relics if he could find them, Soṇuttara, by his magic power, took the relic casket from Vāsuladatta, unknown to him, and brought it to Anurādhapura, where the relics were deposited in the Mahā Thūpa. Mhv.xxxi.4-74.

Soṇuttara 02. A Brahmin of Kajaṅgala, father of Nāgasena Thera. Mil.8.

Soṇuttara 03. The name given to the princes of Suvaṇṇabhūmi (q.v.) after the visit of Soṇa and Uttara to that country. Mhv.xii.54.

Soṇuttara 04. The horse on which Tissa Buddha left the household life. Bv­a.189.

Sonuttara. Devadatta born as a hunter. See the Chaddantajātaka (Ja 514).