Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c17.8

v1.c17.8

The Commentary² says that, apart from the sixty monks who became arahants when the Buddha first preached the sutta, on each occasion of its preaching, by the Chief Disciples and by the eighty chief disciples, a like number attained arahantship. In Ceylon, Maliyadeva Thera preached it at sixty different places, and each time sixty monks became arahants. Once, when Tipiṭaka-Cūlanāga preached it at the Ambilahālavihāra, one thousand monks attained to arahantship.³