Pali Proper Names - M -

• Mahā-Abhaya
• Mahā-Anāthapindika. See Anāthapindika. He was evidently so called in some contexts to distinguish him from Culla Anāthapindika. E.g., DhA.iii.145; J.i.148.
• Mahā-Angana
• Mahā-Anula Thera
• Mahā-Arittha
• Mahā-Ariyavamsa Sutta
• Mahā-āsana
• Mahā-Assapura Sutta
• Mahā-Assāroha Jātaka (No. 302)
• Mahā-Atthakathā
• Mahā-Avīci. See Avīci.
• Mahābodhi
• Mahābodhi-Jātaka (No. 528).
• Mahābodhivamsa
• Mahābrahmā. See Brahmaloka.
• Mahā-Buddharakkhita.-A monk of Piyangudīpa, described as Yonakarājaputta. See Ariyagālatissa.
• Mahābyūha Sutta
• Mahācanda. A river. See Candabhāgā.
• Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
• Mahācetiya. See Mahā Thūpa.
• Mahāchātaka. A nickname given to Bhaddāli, because he was always eating. MA.ii.648.
• Mahācora-Sutta
• Mahācūla (Cūlika )Mahātissa
• Mahā-Cūlani. King, father of Cūlani Brahmadatta. His wife was Talatā, who intrigued with his purohita Chambhī and poisoned her husband. J.vi.470.
• Mahā-Cunda Sutta. See Cunda Sutta.
• Mahā-Cunda. See Cunda.
• Mahādaddara. The Bodhisatta born as a Nagā king, son of Sūradaddara. See the Daddara Jatāka. J.iii.16ff.
• Mahādāragalla. A tank built by Mahāsena (Mhv.xxxvii.49). It was repaired by Vijayabāhu I. and later by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lx.50; lxxix.31.
• Mahādāragiri. A village (probably near Mahādāragallaka) given by Jetthatissa II. to the Abhayagiri vihāra. Cv.xliv.96.
• Mahādāthika Mahānāga
• Mahādatta (1-4)
• Mahādeva
• Mahādevarattakurava. A vihāra in the district of Kāsikhanda in Ceylon; the Anurārāma was a building attached to it. Cv.xli.101.
• Mahādevī. An eminent Therī of Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.24.
• Mahādhammakathī Thera 1. In the time of king Buddhadāsa he translated the Pāli Suttas into Singhalese. Cv.xxxvii.175; he is evidently referred to by Fa Hsien (Giles, p. 72).
• Mahadhammakathi Thera 2.  An incumbent of Nāgasāla vihāra. Kassapa II. showed him great honour and induced him to preach the Dhamma. Cv.xlv.2.
• Mahādhammapāla Jātaka (No. 447)
• Mahādhammarakkhita
• Mahādhammasamādāna Sutta
• Mahādhana
• Mahā-Dhanadeva.-Father of Ariyagālatissa.
• Mahādhanaka. A setthi of Benares identified with Devadatta. For his story see the Ruru Jātaka. J.iv.255ff.
• Mahādhana-kumāra. The Bodhisatta born as the son of the Treasurer of Benares (J.iii.475ff). For his story see the Atthāna Jātaka.
• Mahādhātukathā. See Dhātukathā.
• Mahādīpanī. A Commentary. Gv. 65, 75.
• Mahāditthena Sutta. The great heresy: that the four elements and weal and woe are stable and permanent, that weal and woe are allotted to each person and do not wax and wane (S.iii.211f). Some of these views are elsewhere attributed to Pakudha Kaccāyana and others to Makkhali Gosāla.
• Mahādona. A Nāga king of the city of Mahādona on the bank of the Gangārahada. He used to destroy the districts of those who did not pay him tribute. Nārada Buddha preached to him and vanquished him. Bu.x.7; BuA.153.
• Mahāduggala. A monastery and cetiya built by Kākavannatissa. At its inauguration twelve thousand monks from Cittalapabbata were present. v.l. Mahānuggala. Mhv.xxiv.8ff.
• Mahāduggata
• Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta
• Mahādundubhi. Thirty thousand kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, previous births of Vappa (or Saranāgamaniya) Thera. Thag.i.141; Ap.i.149.
• Mahāgallaka
• Mahāgāma. A tank built by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.47.
• Mahāgāma. The capital of Rohana.
• Mahāgāmanāga Vihāra. A monastery in Rohana where Vohārika-Tissa crowned the thūpa with a parasol (Mhv.xxxvi.34; MT.662). The vihāra is probably identical with the Nāgamahā vihāra, built by Mahānāga (q.v.).
• Mahāgāmendivāpi. A tank built by Amandagāmani Abhaya to the south of Anurādhapura and gifted to the Dakkhinna Vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.5; Mhv.Trs.246, n.4.
• Mahāgana. One of the three chief buildings of the Upāsikā vihāra (q.v.). It was later called Piyathapitaghara. MT. 408, 409.
• Mahāgangā. See Gangā and Mahāvālukagangā.
• Mahāgatimba
• Mahāgavaccha-Thera
• Mahāgirigāma. A village on the road to Nāgadīpa, near the residence of Lonagirivāsī Tissa. DA.ii.534.
• Mahāgopālaka-Sutta
• Mahāgosinga-Sutta
• Mahāgovinda
• Mahāgovinda-Sutta
• Mahāhamsa-Jātaka (No. 534)
• Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta
• Mahājāli. A Pacceka Buddha mentioned in a list of names. M.iii.70.
• Mahājallika-.-A fishing village in Ceylon. In it was a fisherman, also called Mahājallika, whom Dāthāsena overcame. Ras.ii.107.
• Mahājanaka
• Mahājanaka-Jātaka (No. 539)
• Mahājanapadā
• Mahaka. A novice, pupil of Upananda, who is mentioned as having been guilty of an unnatural offence with Kandaka, another novice. Vin.i.70.
• Mahā-Kaccāna, Kaccāyana
• Mahā-Kaccāna-Bhaddekaratta Sutta
• Mahā-Kaccāna-Vatthu. The story of Sakka's honouring of Mahā-Kaccāna. DhA.ii.176f.
• Mahākāla (1-5)
• Mahākālasena. See Kālasena (2).
• Mahākālasena. The chief yakkha of Sirīsavatthu who married Polamittā of Lankāpura (MT. 259f). v.l.  kāla . See Kālasena (2).
• Mahākālī. An eminent Therī of Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.39.
• Mahākālinga. King of Dantapura and brother of Cullakālinga. For their story see the Kālingabodhi Jātaka. J.iv.230ff.
• Mahākalyāna. Another name for Varakalyana.
• Mahā-Kammāsadamma. See Kammāsadamma.
• Mahā-Kammavibhanga Sutta
• Mahā-Kamsa. King of Asitanjana in Kamsabhoga in Uttarāpatha. His children were Kamsa, Upakamsa and Devagabbhā. J.iv.79; PvA.111.
• Mahā-Kāñcana. The Bodhisatta born as the son in a rich brahmin family, and later becoming an ascetic. See the Bhisa Jātaka. J.iv.305ff.
• Mahākanda. The name of a Damila and of a parivena built by him in the reign of Aggabodhi IV. Cv.xlvi.23.
• Mahākandara. A river in Ceylon, at the mouth of which Panduvāsudeva and his retinue landed from India. Mhv.viii.12.
• Mahākanha. The name assumed by Mātali when he became a dog. See the Mahākanha Jātaka.
• Mahākanha-Jātaka (No. 469)
• Mahākapi-Jātaka (No. 407, 516)
• Mahā-Kappina Thera
• Mahā-Kappina Thera Vatthu. Describes the good deeds done by Kappina and Anoja in the time of Kasspa Buddha. See Maha-Kappina. DhA.ii.112 27.
• Mahā-Kassapa saddhi vihārika Vatthu. The story of the pupil of Mahā Kassapa who set fire to his hut. DhA.ii.19ff.; see also the Kutidūsaka Jātaka.
• Mahā-Kassapa Thera
• Mahā-Kassapa Thera Pindapāta Vatthu. The story of Sakka giving alms to Mahā Kassapa in the disguise of a weaver. DhA.i.423ff.
• Mahaka-Sutta
• Mahaka-Thera. An arahant. See Mahaka Sutta.
• Mahākhandaka. The first chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya Pitaka.
• Mahākhetta. A locality in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.50; Cv.Trs.ii.49, n.3.
• Mahākhīragāma. A village near Nāgadīpa in Ceylon; it was the residence of Lonagīrivāsī Tissa. AA.ii.653; MA.i.545.
• Mahākirālavāpi. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.46.
• Mahākokālika. See Kokālika (1).
• Mahākosala. King of Kosala.
• Mahākottha. A Damila chief of Antarāsobbha, whom Dutthagāmanī subdued in the course of his campaigns. Mhv.xxv.11.
• Mahā-Kotthita (Mahā Kotthika) Thera
• Mahākusa. A king of Jambudīpa, descendant of Mahāsammata. His father was Kusa and his son Navaratha (Bharata). They reigned in Kapilavatthu. Dpv.iii.40; MT.130.
• Mahālabujagaccha
• Mahālānakitti
• Mahālatā-pasādhana (-pilandhana)
• Mahālekha. A parivena in the Abhayagiri vihāra; it was built by Mahinda II. Cv.xlviii.135.
• Mahālekhapabbata. A parivena in the Mahā vihāra; it was founded by the Mahālekha Sena, in the time of Kassapa IV. Cv.lii.33.
• Mahālena-Vihāra.-A monastery in Ceylon. See Sanghadattā.
• Mahāli
• Mahāli-Sutta
• Mahallaka-Nāga, Mahalla Nāga
• Mahallarāja. A padhānaghara erected by Aggabodhi III. and his viceroy Māna. The villages of Hankāra and Sāmugāma were given for its maintenance. Cv.xliv.119.
• Mahālohita. The Bodhisatta born as a bull; see the Munika Jātaka and Sālūka Jātaka.
• Mahāmagagāma. A village given by Udaya I. for the celebrations in honour of the Kholakkhiya image of the Buddha. Cv.xlix.15.
• Mahāmahinda. See Mahinda.
• Mahāmahindabāhu parivena. A monastic building, probably in Hatthiselapura, erected by Bhuvanekabāhu, at the request of his brother, Parakkambāhu II. Cv.lxxxv.63.
• Mahāmāladeva. A general of Manābharana (2) stationed at Kālavāpi. Cv.lxxii.171.
• Mahāmalia. Younger brother of Sena, general of Sena V. He committed an offence with his mother and the king had him killed. Cv.liv.60.
• Mahāmaliyadeva. See Malayamahādeva.
• Mahāmallaka. A nunnery built by Mahinda IV. for the Theravāda-nuns. Cv.liv.47.
• Mahāmālunkyā-Sutta
• Mahāmandapa. A palace in Anurādhapura, probably in the Mahāvihāra, used by preachers. Maliyadeva Thera preached there the Chakka Sutta, when sixty monks became arahants. MA.ii.1024.
• Mahā-Mandhātā.-See Mandhātā. His story is also given at Ras.i.20f.
• Mahāmangala-Jātaka (No. 453)
• Mahāmangala-Sutta. See Mangala sutta.
• Mahāmangala-Thera. A monk present at the foundation ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa. MT. 524.
• Mahāmangala-vihāra. A monastery built by Vankanāsikatissa on the banks of the Gonanadī. Mhv.xxxv.113.
• Mahāmani. A tank constructed by Bhātikatīssa, and given by him to the Gavaratissa vihāra (Mhv.xxxvi.3). It was restored by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.47.
• Mahāmanikagāma. A village granted by Aggabodhi III. to the Jetavana vihāra. Cv.xliv.121.
• Mahāmattā
• Mahāmāyā. See Māyā.
• Mahāmeghavana
• Mahāmetta. A Bodhi tree, planted in the Mahāvihāra by Jetthatissa III. Cv.xliv.96.
• Mahāmitta.-A monk of Kassakalena. A very poor woman provided him with food. When a tree deity pointed out this to him he put forth effort and became an arahant (v.l. Ayyamitta). MA.i.237f; DA.iii.790.
• Mahāmittavindaka. See the Catudvāra Jātaka.
• Mahā-Moggallāna Thera
• Mahāmucala. A primeval king, descendant of Mahāsammata. Dpv.iii.6; Mhv.ii.3; Mtu.i.348.
• Mahāmucalamālaka. A locality in Mahāmeghavana, where stood the uposatha hall for monks (Mhv.xv.36). It was outside the enclosure of the Bodhi tree. MT. 346.
• Mahāmunda
• Mahāmuni. A village in Ceylon, in the Dīghavāpi district. Sumana, father of Sumanā, who was the wife of Lakuntaka Atimbara, lived there. DhA.iv.50.
• Mahānadī. A river, dammed up by Udaya II. Cv.li.127; Cv. Trs.i.159, n. 3.
• Mahānāgahula, Mahānāgasula, Mahānāgakula
• Mahānāgakula. See Mahānāgahula.
• Mahānāgapabbata. A vihāra in Ceylon where Aggabodhi I. built an uposatha hall. Cv.xlii.27.
• Mahānāga-Thera
• Mahānāgatissa-vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon where Vohārika Tissa erected a parasol over the Thūpa. Mhv.xxxvi.34.
• Mahānāgavana
• Mahānāga-vihāra
• Mahānāmamatthaka. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.35.
• Mahānāmasikkhāpada. A rule formulated by the Buddha regarding the advisability of those not actually ill receiving medicaments. Sp.iv.842; see Vin.iv.102.
• Mahānāma-Sutta (1-7)
• Mahānāma-Thera (1-8)
• Mahānanda. An author of Hamsavatī, to whom some authorities ascribe the authorship of the Madhusāratthadīpani in the Abhidhamma. Bode, op. cit., 47, n.6;. v.l. Mahānāma.
• Mahānandana. See Nandana.
• Mahānāradakassapa Jātaka (No. 544)
• Mahānela. A king of twenty kappas ago, a previous birth of Kotumbariya Thera. Ap.i.192.
• Mahānela.-A servitor of Kākavannatissa. He was very fleet of foot, though he refused to work with his hands. In his past birth he was Kurudeva. Ras.ii.111f.
• Mahāneru
• Mahānettādipādika. A series of cells built for the Dhammaruci monks by Aggabodhi IV. Cv.xlviii.2.
• Mahānettapabbata. A monastery in Ceylon where Sena I. built a refectory (mahāpāli). Cv.l.74.
• Mahānettappāsāda. A Monastery in Ceylon, for the incumbent of which Vijayabāhu I. built a vihāra in Vātagiri (Cv.lxxxviii.46). Among the incumbents of Mahānettappāsāda was an Elder known as Vīdāgama Thera, author of several Sinhalese works. P.L.C. 253.
• Mahānidāna. Seventy two kappas ago there were eight kings of this name, previous births of Vātātapanivāriya Thera. Ap.i.207.
• Mahānidāna-Sutta
• Mahāniddesa. See Niddesa. One of the books of the Khuddaka Nikāya.
• Mahānigama. A minister of Mahānāma ; he built the Ganthakāraparivena. P.L.C. 96.
• Mahānigantha. See Nigantha Nātaputta.
• Mahānigghosa. Twenty four kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, previous births of Vimala (or Buddhupatthāka) Thera. ThagA.i.122; Ap.i.139.
• Mahānijjhara.-A monastery in Ceylon. Once the elephant Kandula looked after the monks there. Ras.ii.29.
• Mahānikkaddhika. One of the villages given by Aggabodhi IV. for the maintenance of the Padhānaghara, which he built for Dāthasiva. Cv.xlvi.13.
• Mahānikkhavattivāpi. A tank built by King Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.94.
• Mahānīpa. A place in Anurādhapura through which the simā of the Mahāvihāra passed (Mbv. 134,135). It probably received its name from a nīpa tree growing there.
• Mahānipāta
• Mahāniraya. See Avīci.
• Mahānirutti. Olle of the books attributed to Mahā Kaccāna (Gv. 59). This probably refers to the tradition which ascribes the Kaccāyana Grammar to Mahā Kaccāna.
• Mahānisabha. See Nisabha.
• Mahānissara. A work ascribed to Ariyavamsa of Ava (Gv. 65). The correct reading is probably Mahānissaya, and refers to the atthayojanā written by him on the Abhidhamma.
• Mahānitthilagāma. A village given by Kassapa II. for the incumbent of the Nāgasāla-vihāra. Cv.xliv.151
• Mahāniyyāmarattha. A district in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.57; Cv. Trs.i.324, n.2.
• Mahannavāpi. A tank restored by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.34.
• Mahānoma. The name of the Mahāmeghavana in the time of Konagamana Buddha. The capital, Vaddhamāna, lay to the south of it, and the park was given by King Samiddha to the Buddha. Mhv.xv. 92,107ff.
• Mahanta. A stone image of the Buddha set up in the Patimā-vihāra in Kānagāma by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa and ruler of Rohana. Cv.xlv.44.
• Mahanta-parivena. A monastic building erected by a corporation (pūga) in Bandhumatī in the time of Vipassī Buddha. Ap.ii.493 (vs. 19).
• Mahānuggala. See Mahāduggala.
• Mahāpabbata
• Mahāpaccarī
• Mahāpadāna-Sutta. The fourteenth sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya.
• Mahāpadesa-Sutta
• Mahāpadhānaghara
• Mahāpaduma (1-8)
• Mahāpaduma-Jātaka (No. 472)
• Mahāpaharanī. A channel branching off from the Mahāvālukagangā and constructed by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.52.
• Mahāpajāpatī-Gotami
• Mahāpajāpatī-Sutta. Contains details of the events which led to the admission of women into the Order. A.iv.274ff.; cp. Vin.ii.253ff.
• Mahāpakarana. Another name for the Patthānappakarana of the Abhidhamma.
• Mahāpāla. The original name of Cakkhupāla. DhA.i.4.
• Mahāpāli
• Mahāpalobhana-Jātaka (No. 507). The story is the same in all details as that of the Cullapalobhana Jātaka. The name of the Bodhisatta is Anitthigandha. J.iv.468 73.
• Mahāpanāda
• Mahāpanāda-Jātaka (No. 264). The story of Mahāpanāda, given in the Suruci Jātaka. Cp. Dvy. 56ff.
• Mahāpānadīpa. A monastery in Pulatthipura built by Aggabodhi III. Cv.xliv.122.
• Mahāpanālagāma. A village of Rohana in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.47.
• Mahāpañhā. A series of questions referred to in the Anguttara Nikāya. See Mahāpañha Sutta 1. A.v.54.
• Mahāpañha-Sutta.
• Mahāpaññākathā. The first chapter of the Paññāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga.
• Mahāpanthaka-Thera
• Mahāpapāta
• Mahāpāragā. A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.26.
• Mahāparakkama-Thera. He belonged to Taungu in Burma, and settled the dispute regarding the monks being allowed to drink the fermented juices of the coconut palm. He wrote the Surāvinicchaya, a book dealing with this subject. Sās., p.81.
• Mahāparinibbāna-Sutta
• Mahāparivāra-Thera
• Mahāparivena
• Mahāpatāpa
• Mahāpathavi. The name of the Bodhisatta once born as a monkey. In that birth Devadatta was a man who earned his living by winnowing grain; he was therefore superior to the Bodhisatta. Mil. 201.
• Mahāphussadeva-Thera
• Mahāpingala. King of Benares, father of the Bodhisatta. He is identified with Devadatta. See the Mahāpingala Jātaka.
• Mahāpingala-Jātaka (No. 240)
• Mahāpitaka-Thera
• Mahāppamāda-Sutta. One of the Appamāda Suttas. It was preached by Mahinda in the Mahāmeghavana, on the thirteenth day of the bright half of Asālha. Mhv.xvi.3.
• Mahapphala-Sutta. The four iddhi-pādas, if developed, bear great fruit. S.v.267.
• Mahāpulina. A king of fifty three kappas ago, a previous birth of Pulinapūjaka Thera. Ap.i.79.
• Mahāpunna. A village in Ceylon where Lakuntaka Atimbara lived with his wife Sumanā. It was near Kotapabbata vihāra. DhA.i.117.
• Mahāpuññā
• Mahāpunnama Sutta
• Mahāpurisa. The name given to a Great Being.
• Mahāpurisa-Sutta. Sāriputta asks the Buddha who is a "mahāpurisa." The Buddha answers that it is one who has won emancipation of mind, which can be attained by practising the four satipatthānas. S.v.158.
• Mahāpurisavitakka Sutta
• Mahārabbhaka-lena.-Once the residence of Mahādhammadinna of Talangatissapabbata. See Ras.ii.131f.
• Mahārāhulovāda Sutta
• Mahārājaghara. A monastery enlarged by Potthakuttha. Cv.xivi.21.
• Mahārājāno. See Cattāro Mahārājāno.
• Mahārājapabba. A section of the Vessantara Jātaka. J.vi.582.
• Mahārakkhita
• Mahārāma. A king of sixty three kappas ago, a previous birth of Tālavantadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.211.
• Mahārāmetti. A tank constructed by Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.94.
• Mahāratha
• Mahāratha Vagga. The fifth section of the Vimānavatthu.
• Mahāratha vimānavatthu. The story of the devaputta Gopāla. Vv.v.14; VvA.270ff.
• Mahārattha
• Mahārenu. Eighty seven kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, previous births of Godhika (Bhikkhadāyaka) Thera. ThagA.i.124; Ap.i.140.
• Maharīvara. A stronghold in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiv.121.
• Mahārohanagutta Thera
• Mahārohita. A king of four kappas ago; a previous birth of Dverataniya Thera. Ap.i.214.
• Mahāroruva. One of the Nirayas. S.i.92; DhA.iv.79.
• Mahāruci 1. A primeval king, descendant of Mahāsammata. Dpv.iii.7.
• Mahāruci 2. A king of thirty eight kappas ago, a previous birth of Sucintita Thera. Ap.i.133.
• Mahāruhā. A nun, skilled in the Saddhammavamsa; she came from India to Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.31.
• Mahārukkha Sutta
• Mahārukkhatittha. A ford in the Mahātvālukagangā. Cv.lxxii.11; Cv. Trs.i.320, n. 1.
• Mahāsaccaka Sutta
• Mahā-Saccaka.-See Saccaka.
• Mahāsāgara
• Mahāsakuludāyī Sutta
• Mahāsākyamuni Gotama Sutta. The Buddha describes how, before reaching Enlightenment, he traced back, step by step, the cause of Ill in the world and the Way of escape there from. S.ii.10f.
• Mahāsāla Sutta
• Mahāsālā
• Mahāsalayatana, Mahisalāyatanika Sutta
• Mahāsamaya Sutta
• Mahāsāmi
• Mahāsammata
• Mahā-Sangharakkhita
• Mahāsanghikā, Mahāsangītikā
• Mahāsappika.-One of Asoka's palaces. Ras.i.93.
• Mahāsarā
• Mahāsāra Jātaka (No. 92)
• Mahāsārappakāsinī. The name of a Commentary. Gv.75.
• Mahāsāropama Sutta
• Mahāsatipatthāna Sutta
• Mahāsatthivassa Thera
• Mahāsela. See Sela.
• Mahāsena
• Mahāsena Vagga. The fourth section of the Rasavāhinī.
• Mahāsenagāma. A village in Rohana, whose vihāra was restored by Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.62). The village is mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Ibid., lxxv.109; Cv.Trs.ii.55, n. 2.
• Mahāsena-Vihāra
• Mahāsīhanāda Sutta
• Mahāsikha. Five kappas ago there were five kings of this name, previous births of Pannañjalika Thera. Ap.i.128.
• Mahāsīlava Jātaka (No. 51)
• Mahāsīlava. The Bodhisatta born as king of Benares. See the Mahāsīlava Jātaka.
• Mahāsineru. See Sineru.
• Mahāsīva
• Mahāsīvalī Thera. A commentator, evidently of Ceylon, referred to by Buddhaghosa. E.g., MA.ii.797.
• Mahāsona
• Mahāsonā Therī. A teacher of the Vinaya in Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.27.
• Mahāsubhaddā
• Mahāsudassana Jātaka (No. 95)
• Mahāsudassana Sutta
• Mahāsudassana. The Bodhisatta born as king of Kusāvati. J.i.45; Dpv.iii.8; Mhv.ii.5; Mtu.i.348. See, the Mahāsudassana Sutta.
• Mahāsuka Jātaka (No. 429)
• Mahāsumana
• Mahāsumanā. One of the pre eminent nuns of Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.39.
• Mahāsumba Thera. A disciple of Konāgamana Buddha; he came to Ceylon at the Buddha's request. He, with one thousand others, was left behind to look after the new converts. Mhv.xv.123.
• Mahāsumma Thera
• Mahāsuññatā Sutta
• Mahāsupina Jātaka (No. 77)
• Mahāsutasoma Jātaka (No. 537)
• Mahāsuvanna. Father of Cakkhupāla. ThagA.i.195; DhA.i.2.
• Mahāsuvannadīpa. Son of Parakkamabahalarājā and ācariya of Queen Sīvalī of Hamsavatī, in Pegu. He was author of the Apheggusāradīpanī. Bode, op. cit., 36, n. 2.
• Mahātakkāri Jātaka. See Takkāriya Jātaka.
• Mahātalāka.-A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Araññaka-Mahāabhaya. Ras.ii.5
• Mahātālitagāma. A village in Uttaradesa, in Ceylon, where the Pandu king who invaded Ceylon in the reign of Sena I. occupied an armed camp. Cv.l.14.
• Mahātanhāsankhaya Sutta
• Mahāthala. A village in which Aggabodhī V. built the Kadambagona-vihāra. Cv.xlviii.3.
• Mahā-Thupa
• Mahātissa (1-16)
• Mahātissā. An eminent Therī of Ceylon. Dpv.xviii.38.
• Mahātissabhūti Thera
• Mahātissagāma.-A village at the foot of Lankāpabbata. Ras.ii.159
• Mahātittha (1-3)
• Mahātitthadvāra.-One of the gates of Plulatthipura, erected by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiii.163.
• Mahātundila. The Bodhisatta born as a pig. See the Tundila Jātaka.
• Mahā-Udāyī. See Udāyī.
• Mahā-Ukkusa Jātaka (No. 486)
• Mahā-Ummagga Jātaka (No. 546)
• Mahāvācakāla
• Mahāvacchagotta Sutta
• Mahāvagga
• Mahāvajirabuddhi. A monk of Ceylon, author of Vinayaganthi (Vinayagandhi) or Vajirabuddhitīkā on the Vinaya Cominentaries (GV. 60, 66). He was a contemporary of King Dhammaceti of Burma, and presented him with a copy of his work. Bode, op. cit., 39f.
• Mahāvalligotta vihāra. A monastery built by Vasabha and given to the incumbent of the Valliyera vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.82.
• Mahāvālukagāma. A village on the south coast of Ceylon. It is mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. c.p. Vālukagāma. Cv.lxxv. 36f, 40, 45.
• Mahāvālukagangā, Mahāgangā, Mahāvālukanadī
• Mahavālukavīthi.-A street in Anurādhapura. Ras.ii.49.
• Mahāvamsa
• Mahāvamsaka Tissa Thera. Of Ceylon. Mentioned among the last of the arahants. He was among those who took part in various "assemblies"   the Kuddālaka, Mūgapakkha, Ayoghara and Hatthipāla. J.vi.30.
• Mahāvana
• Mahāvānija Jātaka (No. 493)
• Mahavāpi Vihāra.-A monastery in Mahāgāma. For a story connected with it see Ras.ii.4f.
• Mahāvaruna Thera. He ordained Nigrodha Sāmanera (Sp.i.46; Mhv.v.45) and also Tissa and Sumitta, the two sons of the kinnarī Kuntī. Ibid., 214.
• Mahāvattaniya.-A desert in India. Ras.i.23.
• Mahāvatthalagāma. A village on the southern sea coast of Ceylon, where Tilokamalla lived. Cv.ixxxviii.22; Cv.Trs.ii.184, n.2.
• Mahāvedalla Sutta
• Mahāvessantara Jātaka. See Vessantara.
• Mahāvibhanga. The first part of the Sutta Vibhanga of the Vinaya Pitaka, also called the Bhikkhu vibhanga.
• Mahāvihāra
• Mahāvijita. A king of long ago, whose exemplary sacrifice, held under the direction of his chaplain, is narrated in the Kūtadanta Sutta (q.v.).
• Mahāvimalabuddhi. See Vimalabuddhi.
• Mahāvinayasangahapakarana. Another name for the Vinayavinicchaya.
• Mahāvisuddhācariya. See Visuddhācariya.
• Mahāvitthārika. A palace in heaven, occupied by Tīnipadumiya Thera in a previous birth. Ap.i.124.
• Mahāvyaggha Thera. An arahant of Ukkanagara vihara. He received a portion of sour millet gruel given by Dutthagāmanī, and distributed his share among seven hundred monks. Mhv.x.xxii.54.
• Mahāvyūha Sutta. See Mahābyūha.
• Mahāvyūha. A gabled chamber erected by Mahāsudassana into which he could retire during the heat of the day. It was made of silver. D.ii.182; DA.ii.632; see Dial.ii.214, n. 1.
• Mahāyamaka Vagga. The fourth section of the Majjhima Nikāya, containing suttas 21 30.
• Mahāyañña Vagga. The fifth section of the Sattaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iv.39 67.
• Mahāyasa Thera. Of Thāton, author of the Kaccāyanabheda and the Kaccāyanasāra. He probably belonged to the fourteenth century. Bode, op. cit., 36f.; Svd.1250.