A wanderer (paribbājaka). The Buddha was once staying in the fire hut of the brahmin Bhāradvāja-gotta at Kammāsadamma and Māgaṇḍiya came to the hut. Seeing the grass mat on which the Buddha slept at night, he inquired whose it was, and, on being told, he was very annoyed, calling the Buddha a rigid repressionist (bhunahu). Bhāradvāja protested, whereupon Māgaṇḍiya offered to repeat his charge to the Buddha’s face. The Buddha, aware of this conversation, entered the hut in the evening and had a discussion with Māgaṇḍiya, who ended by joining the Order, later becoming an Arahant. M.i.502 ff; Mil.313.

Buddhaghosa explains (MA.ii.681) that this Māgaṇḍiya was the nephew of Māgaṇḍiya (1).