Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.171

v2.c31.171

Maṅgala’s first sermon was preached in the Sirivaruttama Grove, near Sirivaḍḍha. His chief disciples among men were Sudeva and Dhammasena, and his chief nuns Sīvalā and Asokā. Pālita was his constant attendant.² Nanda and Visākha were his chief patrons among lay men and Anulā and Sutanā among lay women. In Maṅgala’s time the Bodhisatta was the brahmin Suruci (q.v.). Maṅgala’s body was eighty cubits high; he held three assemblies: the first at the preaching of the Dhammacakka, the second at Cittanagara, when he preached to Sunanda, king of Surabhinagara, and his son Anurāja, and the third at Mekhala to Sudeva and Dhammasena who later became his chief disciples.