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मौद्गल्यायन (maudgalyAyana)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मौद्गल्यायन
m.
 (patr.
fr.
 Prec. )
N.
 of a pupil of Gautama Buddha,
Lalit.
Monier Williams 1872
English
मौद्गल्यायन, अस्, m. (patronymic fr. मौद्-
गल्य), N. of a pupil of Śākya-muni.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Maudgalyāyana,
(1) also Mahā-m°, = Pali Moggallāna, gotra-name and usual appellation of Kolita, often paired with Śāriputra as leading disciples of the Buddha: story of his conversion, Mv 〔iii.56.16 ff.〕
〔57.18〕 etc.
the forms without and with Mahā- often interchange in the same passage and sometimes without significance, but the Buddha himself always speaks of or to him as Maud° (without Mahā-), e.g. in contexts where Mahā- is usually prefixed, Divy 〔160.13, 17〕
〔299.16〕 (but in 18 Ānanda calls him Mahā-m°)
Av 〔ii.91.15〕
Aśoka refers to him without Mahā-, but in a vs, Divy 〔395.20〕
other cases without Mahā-, Mvy 〔1033〕
Divy 〔50.29 ff.〕
〔182.22〕
〔268.6〕
〔314.15〕
〔486.25〕
Av 〔i.241.7〕 etc.
Sukh 〔31.3〕
Karmav 〔161.18〕
et passim
(2) pl., n. of a brahmanical gotra: Divy 〔635.13〕
cf. Maudgalyāyanīgotreṇa, of the nakṣatra Uttarāṣāḍha, Divy 〔640.22〕.