Mahānāma
PersonEin Mönch aus einer Brahmanenfamilie in Sāvatthi, der in Verzweiflung darüber, unheilsame Gedanken nicht bezähmen zu können, eine Klippe erklomm, um sich hinabzustürzen, stattdessen aber Einsicht gewann und die Arahatschaft erlangte, da er in einem früheren Leben als gelehrter Brahmanenlehrer dem Buddha Sumedha Honig dargebracht hatte
He was born in a brahmin family of Sāvatthi, and, after hearing the Buddha teach, entered the Order. Taking a formula of meditation, he dwelt on the hill called Nesādaka. Unable to prevent the rising of evil thoughts, he was disgusted with himself, and climbing a steep crag, made as if to throw himself down, and evoking insight became an Arahant.
In the time of Sumedha Buddha he was a brahmin teacher skilled in the Vedas, and the Buddha visited him in his hermitage on the banks of the Sindhū and was given honey by him (ThagA.vs.115; ThagA.i.227 ff). Mahānāma is probably identical with Madhudāyaka Thera of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.325 f.
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