Mahādeva3
Personマヒンダを出家させた比丘で、第三結集後にマヒサマンダラへ派遣された伝道師として、天使経を説くことで数万人を改宗させ出家させた。
He conferred the going-forth (pabbajjā) on Mahinda (Mhv.v.206; Dpv.vii.25). After the Third Council he went as a missionary to Mahisamaṇḍala, where he taught the Devadūta Sutta, converting forty thousand people and conferring ordination on forty thousand more. Mhv.xii.3, 29; Dpv.viii.5; Sp.i.66.
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