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Mahākāla
PersonA householder of Bandhumatī in the time of the Buddha Vipassī and a previous birth of Aññā-Koṇḍañña, who with his brother Cūḷakāḷa offered the Buddha the first fruits of their harvest at nine stages of its growth.
A merchant of Setabyā, eldest of three brothers, who joined the Order after hearing the Buddha teach and attained Arahantship through meditating on a corpse’s remains arranged for him by a cremation-ground attendant.
A lay Stream-winner of Sāvatthi who, after keeping the uposatha vows overnight, was mistakenly beaten to death as a thief when stolen goods were dumped near him, an echo of a similar frame-up he himself had orchestrated in a past life.
A long-lived Nāga king who witnessed all four Buddhas of the present world-cycle, created a lifelike image of the Buddha for King Asoka, and guarded the Buddha’s relics from Rāmagāma until they were taken from him.
One of the seven mountains surrounding Gandhamādana.
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