[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.c31.832 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.832 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.832 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.832](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.832) 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 - [Previous: v2.c31.831](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.831) - [Next: v2.c31.833](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.833) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) ## Cites (1) - [Mahāvaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.mahavamsa.32.30) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.832](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.832) · Pramāṇa