Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1916

v2.c31.1916

On another occasion, when Moggallāna visited Sakka to find out if he had profited by the Buddha's teaching, he found him far too proud and obsessed by the thought of his own splendour. He thereupon shook Sakka's palace, Vejayanta, till Sakka's hair stood on end with fright and his pride was humbled.⁹ Again, Moggallāna is mentioned as visiting the Brahma-world in order to help the Buddha in quelling the arrogance of Baka-Brahmā. He himself questioned Baka in solemn conclave in the Sudhammā-Hall in the Brahma-world and made him confess his conviction that his earlier views were erroneous.¹⁰ In the Māratajjaniya Sutta¹¹ we are told how Māra worried Moggallāna by entering into his belly, but Moggallāna ordered him out and told him how he himself had once been a Māra named Dūsī whose sister Kālī was the mother of the present Māra. Dūsī incited the householders against Kakusandha Buddha and was, as a result, born in purgatory.