妙法蓮華經文句 2.120

2.120

Next are listed the eight nāgas. "Nanda" means joy; "Upananda" means goodness. The brothers constantly protect Magadha, causing rainfall in due season so that the country has no years of famine. King Bimbisāra held an assembly for them each year, and the common people were all joyous on hearing of it, from which they obtained their names; these are precisely the ones whom Maudgalyāyana subdued. They dwell in the ocean.