Mahānāma
PersonUn moine d’une famille brahmane à Sāvatthi qui, désespéré de ne pouvoir apaiser des pensées malsaines, gravit une falaise dans l’intention de se jeter dans le vide, mais obtint à la place la vision pénétrante et atteignit l’état d’arahant, ayant dans une vie antérieure, en tant que savant maître brahmane, offert du miel au Bouddha Sumedha
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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