Pāli Dictionary

Gopāla6

Person

A devaputta of Tāvatiṃsa who, as a cowherd of Rājagaha, once offered Mahā-Moggallāna a meal and died of a snakebite while watching the elder eat it.

A devaputta of Tāvatiṃsa. He had been a cowherd of Rājagaha and had once offered Mahā-Moggallāna a meal of junket and rice (kummāsa). Immediately afterwards he was bitten by a snake and died while watching the elder eat the meal he had given him. Vv.vii.6; VvA.308 f.

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