Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.s16.23

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Thūlabhadda (Sthulabhadra) One of the two sons of Sagaḍāla the minister of king Mahāpauma(8) ¹ He renounced the world and became a disciple of Sambhūtavijaya(4) ² He stayed with Kosā the famous courtezan of the city of Paḍaliputta for a period of twelve years before renunciation and for four months (during a rainy season) after accepting asceticism 1 AvaCu II pp 183 ff UttS | 2 Na v 24 Kalp (Theravali) 6 pp 105 ff T 742 ff without suffering any transgression ⁵ Once a conference of monks was held at Pāṭaliputra to restore the lost canon after a prolonged famine of twelve years Eleven Amgas(3) were however recollected But there was none who possessed knowledge of Diṭṭhivāya, the twelfth Amga Thūlabhadda accompanied by five hundred intelligent monks went to Nepāla to learn that text from Bhaddabāhu(1) None but he could learn fourteen Puvvas (an important portion of Diṭṭhivāya) ten with meaning and four without it from him but he was debarred for some reason from teaching the last four Puvvas to any other person He died after 215 years of the death of Mahāvīra ⁶ He was survived by his two principal disciples Mahāgiri and Suhatthi ⁶ See also Diṭṭhivāya