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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.284

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.284

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### [v2.c31.284](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.284)

Sudhamma Thera also lived there, and the place was visited by Sariputta and Moggallāna² and also by Acela Kassapa.³ The books contain, besides these, the names of several monks who lived at Macchikāsaṇḍa—\*e.g.\*, Isidatta, Mahaka, Kāmabhū and Godatta.⁴ The place may also have been a centre of the Nigaṇṭhas, for Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta is mentioned as having gone there with a large following.⁵ It was thirty leagues from Sāvatthi,⁶ and near by was the village of Miga-pathaka (q.v.).

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