Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1961

v2.c31.1961

⁴⁸ J. v. 125 ff.; the account in DhA. iii. 65 ff. differs in several details. The thieves tried for two months before succeeding in their plot and, in the story of the past, when the blind parents were being beaten, they cried out to the supposed thieves to spare their son. Moggallāna, very touched by this, did not kill them. Before passing into Nibbāna, he preached to the Buddha, at his request, and performed many miracles, returning to Kāḷasilā to die. According to the Jātaka account his cremation was performed with much honour, and the Buddha had the relics collected and a thūpa erected in Veḷuvana.