Mahānāma
PersonMột tỳ-kheo thuộc gia đình bà-la-môn ở Sāvatthi, tuyệt vọng vì không thể chế ngự các tư tưởng bất thiện nên trèo lên vách đá định gieo mình xuống, nhưng thay vào đó lại đạt được tuệ giác và chứng quả A-la-hán, do tiền kiếp từng là một vị thầy bà-la-môn học rộng đã cúng dường mật ong lên Đức Phật 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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