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Eighty-four mahasiddhas (Skt. caturaśītisiddha; Tib. གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་, Wyl. grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi) — eighty (or eighty four) great siddhas of ancient India whose lives have been recounted by Abhayadatta.

No.	Tibetan	Sanskrit	Phonetics	English<ref>Dowman, Keith: Masters of Mahāmudrā, Songs and Histories of the Eigthy-Four Buddhist Siddhas, 1985</ref>
1	ལཱུ་ཨི་པ།	Lūipa	Luipa	The Fish-Gut Eater
2	ལཱི་ལ་པ།	Līlapa	Lilapa	The Royal Hedonist
3	བི་རཱུ་པ།	Virūpa	Virupa	The Ḍākinī-Master
4	ཌོམྦི་པ།	Ḍombipa	Dombipa	The Tiger-Rider
5	ཥ་ཝ་རི་པ།	Śavaripa	Shavaripa	The Hunter
6	ས་ར་ཧ།	Saraha	Saraha	The Great Brahmin
7	ཀངྐཱ་རི་པ།	Kaṅkāripa	Kangkaripa	The Lovelorn Widower
8	མཱི་ན་པ།	Mīnapa	Minapa	The Hindu Jonah
9	ཤྲཱི་གོ་རཀྵ་ནཱཐ྄།	Nāth Siddha Gorakṣa	Nat Siddha Goraksha	The Immortal Cowherd
10	ཙཽ་རངྒི་པ།	Cauraṅgipa	Chauranggipa	The Dismembered Stepson
11	ཝཱི་ཎཱ་པ།	Vīṇāpa	Vinapa	The Musician
12	ཤཱནྟི་པ།	Śāntipa	Shantipa	The Complacent Missionary
13	ཏནྟི་པ།	Tantipa	Tantipa	The Senile Weaver
14	ཙཱ་མཱ་རི་པ།	Cāmāripa	Chamaripa	The Cobbler
15	ཁཌྒ་པ།	Khaḍgapa	Khadgapa	The Fearless Thief
16	ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ།	Nāgārjuna	Nagarjuna	Nagarjuna
17	ནག་པོ་པ།	Kāṇhapa	Kanhapa	The Dark Siddha
18	འཕགས་པ་ལྷ།	Āryadeva	Aryadeva	The One-Eyed
19	ཐ་ག་ན་པ།	Thaganapa	Taganapa	The Compulsive Liar
20	ནཱ་རོ་པ།	Nāropa	Naropa	The Dauntless
21	ཥྱ་ལི་པ།	Śyalipa	Shyalipa	The Jackal-Yogin
22	ཏི་ལོ་པ།	Tilopa	Tilopa	The Great Renunciate
23	ཙ་ཏྲ་པ།	Catrapa	Chatrapa	The Lucky Beggar
24	བྷ་དྲ་པ།	Bhadrapa	Bhadrapa	The Exclusive Brahmin
25	དུ་ཁངྡྷི་པ།	Dukhaṅdhi	Dukhangdhi	The Scavenger
26	ཨ་ཛོ་གི་པ།	Ajogi	Ajogi	The Rejected Wastrel
27	ཀཱ་ལ་པ།	Kālapa	Kalapa	The Handsome Madman
28	དྷོ་བཱི་པ།	Dhobīpa	Dhobipa	The Wise Washerman
29	ཀངྐ་ཎ་པ།	Kaṅkaṇa	Kangkana	The Siddha-King
30	ཀམྦ་ལ་པ།	Kambala	Kambala	The Black-Blanket-Clad Yogin
31	ཌེངྒི་པ།	Ḍeṅgipa	Denggipa	The Courtesan's Brahmin Slave
32	བྷནྡེ་པ།	Bhandepa	Bhandepa	The Envious God
33	ཏངྟེ་པ།	Taṅtepa	Tangtepa	The Gambler
34	ཀུ་ཀྐུ་རི་པ།	Kukkuripa	Kukkuripa	The Dog-Lover
35	ཀུ་ཙི་པ།	Kucipa	Kuchipa	The Goitre-Necked Yogin
36	དྷརྨ་པ།	Dharmapa	Dharmapa	The Eternal Student
37	མ་ཧི་པ།	Mahipa	Mahipa	The Greatest
38	ཨ་ཙིངྟ་།	Aciṅta	Achingta	The Avaricious Hermit
39	བ་བྷ་ཧ།	Babhaha	Babhaha	The Free Lover
40	ན་ལི་ན་པ།	Nalinapa	Nalinapa	The Self-Reliant Prince
41	ཞི་བ་ལྷ།	Śāntideva	Shantideva	The Idle Monk
42	ཨིནྡྲ་བྷཱུ་ཏི།	Indrabhūti	Indrabhuti	The Enlightened Siddha-King
43	མེ་ཀོ་པ།	Mekopa	Mekopa	Guru Dread-Stare
44	ཀོ་ཊཱ་ལི་པ།	Koṭālipa	Kotalipa	The Peasant Guru
45	ཀམྤ་རི་པ།	Kamparipa	Kamparipa	The Blacksmith
46	ཛཱ་ལནྡྷ་ར་པ།	Jālandhara	Jalandhara	The Ḍākinī's Chosen One
47	རཱ་ཧུ་ལ།	Rāhula	Rahula	The Rejuvenated Dotard
48	དྷརྨ་པ།	Dharmapa (Gharbari)	Dharmapa (Gharbari)	The Contrite Paṇḍita
49	དྷོ་ཀ་རི་པ།	Dhokaripa	Dhokaripa	The Bowl-Bearer
50	མེ་དྷི་ནཱི།	Medhinī	Medhini	The Tired Farmer
51	པངྐ་ཛ་པ།	Paṅkajapa	Pangkajapa	The Lotus-Born Brahmin
52	གྷ་ཎྚཱ་པ།	Ghaṇṭāpa	Ghantapa	The Celibate Bell-Ringer
53	ཛོ་གི་པ།	Jogipa	Jogipa	The Siddha-Pilgrim
54	ཙེ་ལུ་ཀ་པ།	Celukapa	Chelukapa	The Revitalized Drone
55	གོ་དྷུ་རི་པ།	Godhuripa	Godhuripa	The Bird-Catcher
56	ལུ་ཙི་ཀ་པ།	Lucikapa	Luchikapa	The Escapist
57	ནིརྒུ་ཎ་པ།	Nirguṇapa	Nirgunapa	The Enlightened Moron
58	ཛ་ཡཱ་ནནྡ།	Jayānanda	Jayananda	Crow Master
59	པ་ཙ་རི་པ།	Pacaripa	Pacharipa	The Pastrycook
60	ཙ་མྤ་ཀ	Campaka	Champaka	The Flower King
61	བྷི་ཀྵ་ན་པ།	Bhikṣanapa	Bhikshanapa	Siddha Two-Teeth
62	དྷི་ལི་པ།	Dhilipa	Dhilipa	The Epicurean Merchant
63	ཀུམྦྷ་རི་པ།	Kumbharipa	Kumbharipa	The Potter
64	ཙ་རྦ་རི་པ།	Carbaripa	Charbaripa	The Petrifier
65	མ་ཎི་བྷ་དྲཱ།	Maṇibhadrā	Manibhadra	The Happy Housewife
66	མེ་ཁ་ལཱ།	Mekhalā	Mekhala	The Elder Severed-Headed Sister
67	ཀ་ན་ཁ་ལཱ།	Kanakhalā	Kanakhala	The Younger Severed-Headed Sister
68	ཀི་ལ་ཀི་ལ་པ།	Kilakilapa	Kilakilapa	The Exiled Loud-Mouth
69	ཀནྟ་ལི་པ།	Kantalipa	Kantalipa	The Ragman-Tailor
70	དྷ་ཧུ་ལི་པ།	Dhahulipa	Dhahulipa	The Blistered Rope-Maker
71	ཨུ་དྷི་ལི་པ།	Udhilipa	Udhilipa	The Bird-Man
72	ཀ་པཱ་ལ་པ།	Kapālapa	Kapalapa	The Skull-Bearer
73	ཀི་ར་པཱ་ལ་པ།	Kirapālapa	Kirapalapa	The Repentant Conqueror
74	ས་ཀ་ར།	Sakara	Sakara	The Lotus-Born
75	སརྦ་བྷཀྵ།	Sarvabhakṣa	Sarvabhaksha	The Glutton
76	ནཱ་ག་བོ་དྷི།	Nāgabodhi	Nagabodhi	The Red-Horned Thief
77	དཱ་རི་ཀ་པ།	Dārikapa	Darikapa	Slave-King of the Temple Whore
78	པུ་ཏ་ལི་པ།	Putalipa	Putalipa	The Mendicant Icon-Bearer
79	ཨུ་པ་ན་ཧ།	Upanaha	Upanaha	The Bootmaker
80	ཀོ་ཀི་ལི་པ།	Kokilipa	Kokilipa	The Complacent Esthete
81	ཨ་ནངྒ་པ།	Anaṅgapa	Ananggapa	The Handsome Fool
82	ལཀྵྨཱིངྐ་རཱ།	Lakṣmīṅkarā	Lakshmingkara	The Crazy Princess
83	ས་མུ་དྲ།	Samudra	Samudra	The Pearl Diver
84	བྱཱ་ལི་པ།	Vyālipa	Vyalipa	The Courtesan's Alchemist

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Achinta or Achintapa, the 'Avaricious Hermit';
Ajogi or Ayogipa, the 'Rejected Wastrel';
Anangapa, Ananga or Anangavajra, the 'Handsome Fool';
Aryadeva, the 'Lotus-Born' or the 'One-Eyed';
Babhaha, the 'Free Lover';
Bhadrapa, the 'Snob' or the 'Exclusive Brahmin';
Bhandepa, the 'Envious God';
Bhiksanapa, 'Siddha Two-Teeth';
Bhusuku or Bhusukupada, the 'Lazy Monk' or the 'Idle Monk';
Chamaripa, the 'Divine Cobbler';
Champaka or Champakapada, the 'Flower King';
Charbaripa or Carpati, 'Who Turned People to Stone' or 'the Petrifyer';
Chatrapa, the 'Lucky Beggar';
Chaurangipa, the 'Limbless One' or 'the Dismembered Stepson';
Chelukapa, the 'Revitalized Drone';
Darikapa, the 'Slave-King of the Temple Whore';
Dengipa, the 'Courtesan's Brahmin Slave';
Dhahulipa, the 'Blistered Rope-Maker';
Dharmapa, the 'Eternal Student' (c.900 CE);
Dhilipa, the 'Epicurean Merchant';
Dhobipa, the 'Wise Washerman';
Dhokaripa, the 'Bowl-Bearer';
Dombi Heruka, the 'Tiger Rider';
Dukhandi, the 'Scavenger';
Ghantapa, the 'Celibate Monk' or the 'Celibate Bell-Ringer';
Gharbari or Gharbaripa, the 'Contrite Scholar' (Skt. pandita)
Godhuripa or Gorura, the 'Bird Catcher';
Goraksa, Gorakhnath or Goraksha, the 'Immortal Cowherd';
Indrabhuti, (his teachings disseminated to Tilopa);
Jalandhara, the 'Dakini's Chosen One';
Jayananda, the 'Crow Master';
Jogipa, the 'Siddha Pilgrim';
Kalapa, the 'Handsome Madman';
Kamparipa, the 'Blacksmith';
Kambala, the 'Yogin of the Black Blanket' (or the 'Black-Blanket-Clad Yogin');
Kanakhala, the younger of the two Headless Sisters or Severed-Headed Sisters;
Kanha or Kanhapa, the 'Dark-Skinned One' (or the 'Dark Siddha');
Kankana, the 'Siddha-King';
Kankaripa, the 'Lovelorn Widower';
Kantalipa, the 'Rag Picker' (or the 'Ragman-Tailor');
Kapalapa, the 'Skull Bearer';
Khadgapa, the 'Master Thief' (or the 'Fearless Thief');
Kilakilapa, the 'Exiled Loud-Mouth';
Kirapalapa, the 'Repentant Conqueror';
Kokilipa, the 'Complacent Aesthete';
Kotalipa, the 'Peasant Guru';
Kuchipa, the 'Goitre-Necked Yogin';
Kukkuripa, the 'Dog Lover';
Kumbharipa, 'the Potter';
Laksminkara, 'The Mad Princess';
Lilapa, the 'Royal Hedonist';
Luchikapa, the 'Escapist';
Luyipa, the 'Fish-Gut Eater';
Mahipa, the 'Greatest';
Manibhadra, the 'Model Wife' or the 'Happy Housewife';
Medhini, the 'Tired Farmer';
Mekhala, the elder of the two Headless Sisters or Severed-Headed Sisters;
Mekopa, the 'Wild-Eyed Guru' (or the 'Guru Dread-Stare');
Minapa, the 'Fisherman';
Nagabodhi, the 'Red-Horned Thief';
Nagarjuna;
Nalinapa, the 'Self-Reliant Prince';
Naropa;
Nirgunapa, the 'Enlightened Moron';
Pacharipa, the 'Pastrycook';
Pankajapa, the 'Lotus-Born Brahmin';
Putalipa, the 'Mendicant Icon-Bearer';
Rahula, the 'Rejuvenated Dotard';
Saraha, the 'Arrow Maker';
Sakara;
Samudra, the 'Pearl Diver';
Shantipa, the 'Academic' (or the 'Complacent Missionary')
Sarvabhaksa, the 'Empty-Bellied Siddha' (or the 'Glutton');
Shavaripa, the 'Hunter';
Shalipa, the 'Jackal Yogin';
Tantepa, the 'Gambler';
Tantipa, the 'Senile Weaver';
Thaganapa, the 'Compulsive Liar';
Tilopa;
Udhilipa, the 'Flying Siddha' (the 'Bird-Man');
Upanaha, the 'Bootmaker';
Vinapa, the 'Music Lover', the 'Musician';
Virupa;
Vyalipa, the 'Courtesan's Alchemist'.
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