Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2087

v2.c31.2087

Mahāvācakāla.—A man who lived on the banks of the Mahāvālukagaṅgā. For thirty years he meditated on the thirty-two impurities of the body in the hope of becoming a sotāpanna. But at the end of that period he gave up his meditations, renouncing the Buddha’s Doctrine as futile. After death he was born as a crocodile in the river, and one day sixty carts laden with stone pillars started crossing the river at Kacchakatittha. The crocodile ate bulls, carts, and pillars.¹