[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c31.1906 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1906 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.1906 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.1906](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.1906) On the day that Sāriputta and Moggallāna were ordained, the Buddha announced in the assembly of monks that he had assigned to them the place of Chief Disciples and then recited the Pātimokkha. The monks were offended that newcomers should be shown such great honour. But the Buddha told them how these two had for a whole asaṅkheyya and one hundred thousand years strenuously exerted themselves to win this great eminence under him. They had made the first resolve in the time of Anomadassī Buddha. Moggallāna had been a householder, named Sirivaḍḍha, and Sāriputta a householder, called Sarada. Sarada gave away his immense wealth and became an ascetic. The Buddha visited him in his hermitage, where Sarada and his seventy-four thousand pupils showed him great honour. Anomadassī’s chief disciple, Nisabha, gave thanks, and Sarada made a vow that he would become the chief disciple of some future Buddha. Anomadassī saw that his wish would be fulfilled and told him so. - [Previous: v2.c31.1905](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.1905) - [Next: v2.c31.1907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.1907) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.1906](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.1906) · Pramāṇa