Pāli Dictionary

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  • A monk of Sri Lanka, an eminent teacher of the Vinaya.

  • A monk of Sri Lanka who, while attending the elder Mahārohaṇagutta, saw a Supaṇṇa about to seize a Nāga king and saved him by conjuring a mountain for the elder to enter.

  • A monk of Sri Lanka sometimes credited with authorship of the Jinālaṅkāra and its subcommentary, said to have lived around the fifth century B.C. on the western coast.

  • A cross-reference to Mahā Buddharakkhita.

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