Puggala [cp. Class. Sk. pudgala, etym. connected with puŋs, although the fantastic expln of native Commentators refers it to puŋ "a hell" and gal; so at Vism 310: "pun ti vuccati nirayo, tasmiŋ galantī ti puggalā"] 1. an individual, as opposed to a group (sangha or parisā), person, man; in later philosophical (Abhidhamma) literature=character, soul (=attan). <-> D i.176; M iii.58; S i.93 sq.; iii.25; A i.8, 197; ii.126 sq.; Sn 544, 685; Dh 344; Ps i.180 sq.; ii.1 sq., 52; Pv ii.325 (cp. PvA 88); ii.97; PvA 40, 132. -- pl. puggalā people VvA 86 (=sattā), 149. -- para -- puggala another man D i.213; S ii.121; v.265; Vism 409. -- purisa -- puggalaindividual man, being, person S ii.206; iv.307; A i.173=M ii.217. Characterised as an individual in var. ways, e. g. as agga˚ Sdhp 92, 558; abhabba˚ J i.106; ariya˚ Vin v.117; asura -- parivāra˚ A ii.91; kodhagaru˚ A ii.46; gūtha˚, puppha˚ madhubhāṇī˚ A i.128; dakkhiṇeyya˚ VvA 5; diṭṭhisampanna˚ A i.26 sq.; iii.439 sq.;iv.136; nibbiriya kusīta˚ J iv.131; pāsāṇalekh' ûpama˚ etc. A i.283; valāhak' ûpama A ii.102 sq.; saddha, asaddha Ps i.121; ii.33; sivāthik' upama A iii.268; suppameyya etc. A i.266 sq. [a]sevitabba A iv.365; v.102, 247, 281; hīna majjhima paṇīta S ii.154. -- Groups of characters: (2) A i.76, 87; (3) gilān' ûpama etc. Ai.121 sq.; avuṭṭhika -- sama padesa -- vassin, sabbatth' âbhivassin It 64 sq.; satthar, sāvaka, sekha It 78; sekha asekha n' eva -- sekha -- nāsekha D iii.218; (4) Diii.232, 233; S i.93; J iv.131; (5) Nett 191; (6) rāga -- carita, dosa˚, moha˚, saddhā˚, buddha˚, vitakka˚ Vism 102; (7) ubhato -- bhāga -- vimutta, paññāvimutta etc. D iii.105; (8) A iii.212; S v.343 (19) Nett 190; (26) Nett 189, 190. -- See also paṭipuggala. <-> 2. (in general) being, creature Miln 310 (including Petas & animals).

 -- ñū knowing individuals D iii.252, 283. -- paññatti descriptions of persons, classification of individuals D iii.105 (cp. Dial. iii.101); also N. of one of the canonical books of the Abhidhamma -- piṭaka. -- vemattatā difference between individuals S ii.21; v.200; Sn p. 102 (=˚nānatta SnA 436).