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  • An Arahant who came with forty thousand fellow monks from the Dakkhiṇāgiri-vihāra in Ujjeni to the foundation ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa.

  • A monk of the Corakaṇḍaka-vihāra who, in a story from Prince Sāliya’s previous birth as a blacksmith, accepted a meal offered by him.

  • A forest-dwelling elder, also called Malayavāsī Mahā-Saṅgharakkhita, who gave Tissabhūti a meditation topic that led him to Arahantship.

  • An elder cited in the Commentaries as an example of one free from all impurities.

  • An elderly monk who, on his deathbed, denied any spiritual attainment to his companions but then secretly revealed his Arahantship by snapping his fingers once left alone.

  • An Arahant elder who taught the nun Rūpadevī.

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