Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1914

v2.c31.1914

⁷ Thag. vs. 1183; he is recorded as saying that he could crush Sineru like a kidney bean (DhA. iii. 212), and, rolling the earth like a mat between his fingers, could make it rotate like a potter's wheel, or could place the earth on Sineru like an umbrella on its stand. When the Buddha and his monks failed to get alms in Verañjā, Moggallāna offered to turn the earth upside down, so that the essence of the earth, which lay on the under surface, might serve as food. He also offered to open a way from Nalerupu-cimanda to Uttarakuru, that the monks might easily go there for alms; but this offer was refused by the Buddha (Vin. iii. 7; Sp. i. 182 f.; DhA. ii. 153).