Upatissa is a

Pali Pāli (, IAST: pāl̤i) is a Classical languages of India, classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages, Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pali Canon, Pāli Can ...

and Sinhala name. It may refer to: * An alternate name for Sariputta, one of the chief male disciples of Gautama Buddha **Upatissagāma, his birthplace, near

Rajgriha Rajgir, old name Rajagriha, meaning "The City of Kings," is an ancient city and university town in the Nalanda district of Bihar, India. It was the capital of the Haryanka dynasty, the Pradyota dynasty, the Brihadratha dynasty, the Mauryan Emp ...

, in Magadha, India *

Upatissa (regent) Upatissa was purohita (Vedic priest) to and a chief government minister under King Vijaya of Sri Lanka. He built the city of Upatissa Nuwara which he named after himself. This became the second Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka. He was the Kin ...

, chief minister and member of Prince Vijaya's followers, Sinhalese regent of the Kingdom of Tambapanni (505 BC–504 BC) *

Arahant Upatissa Arahant Upatissa (1st century CE – 2nd century CE) was a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk and the author of ''The Path to Freedom'', or ''Vimuttimagga'', which serves as a Buddhist meditation manual, broadly considered a great and important ...

(Sri Lanka, 1st or 2nd century CE), the reputed author of the ''Vimuttimagga'', an ancient Buddhist meditation manual *

Upatissa I of Anuradhapura Upatissa I was King of Kingdom of Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura in the 4th century, whose reign lasted from 370 to 412. He succeeded his father Buddhadasa of Anuradhapura, Buddhadasa as King of Anuradhapura and was succeeded by his brother Mahanama o ...

, King of Anuradhapura (370–412) *

Upatissa II of Anuradhapura Upatissa II was King of Kingdom of Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura in the 6th century, whose reign lasted from 525 to 526. He succeeded Siva II of Anuradhapura, Siva II as King of Anuradhapura and was succeeded by Silakala Ambosamanera of Anuradhapura, ...

, King of Anuradhapura (525–526) * Upatissa (Sri Lanka, 10th Century CE), reputed author of the '' Mahabodhivamsa'' *

Upatissa Gamanayake Don Upatissa Gamanayake (; 17 October 1948 – 13 November 1989), also known by his alias Dias Mudalali, was a Sri Lankan politician and the deputy leader of the Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during the 1987–1989 insurrection. Not a prominen ...

(1948–1989), former deputy leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna *

Upatissagāma Upatissagāma was the second capital of the Kingdom of Tambapanni, during the Pre Anuradhapura period of Sri Lanka. It was seven or eight miles further north of the previous capital Tambapaṇṇī, which was in present-day Puttalam. The city wa ...

, capital of the Kingdom of Tambapanni in Sri Lanka

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