Pāli Dictionary

Mahāsumma2

Person

A monk of Sri Lanka to whom King Mahācūḷa Mahātissa gave alms bought with wages earned from harvest labour.

A monk of Sri Lanka. King Mahācūḷa Mahātissa laboured in a rice harvest, and, with the wages thus received, gave him alms. Mhv.xxxiv.3.

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