Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c34.186

v2.c34.186

Buddhaghosa¹⁵ calls Lāḷudāyī Kovariyaputta. It is not clear whether this means that his father was called Kovariya. The Vinaya¹⁶ mentions a monk called Udāyī who was a colleague of Seyyasaka. He persuaded Seyyasaka to commit the first Saṅghādisesa offence, saying that he himself acted likewise. For this the Mānatta penalty was imposed on him. According to the Commentaries,¹⁷ this Udāyī is to be identified with Lāḷudāyī, and if this be correct, it was perhaps the same monk who was guilty of several Vinaya offences attributed to Udāyī—see Udāyī (2)—though the Vinaya Commentary does not elsewhere¹⁸ definitely so identify him, except once,¹⁹ where he is mentioned as having made an embroidered robe for a nun, which he persuaded her to wear in the assembly of the nuns! Was this because the Commentator regarded the two Udāyīs as distinct persons?²⁰