Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.832

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Malaya-Mahādeva (v.l. Maliya-Mahādeva, Maliyadeva) Thera.—An arahant. During the Akkhakkhāyika famine, Duṭṭhagāmaṇi provided him and four others with a dish of sour millet-gruel, which was purchased with the proceeds of the sale of the king's earrings.¹ Mahādeva took his portion to Sumanakūṭa and shared it with nine hundred others.² He was also among the eight arahants who accepted a meal of pork from Sāliya in his previous birth as a blacksmith.³ He was probably so called because he lived at Koṭapabbata in the Malaya country.⁴