[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.c31.2087 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2087 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.2087 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.2087](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.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 - [Previous: v2.c31.2086](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2086) - [Next: v2.c31.2088](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2088) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2087](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2087) · Pramāṇa