[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970) › v2.c8.s2.288 # Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.288 Prakrit Proper Names (Āgamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.288 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c8.s2.288](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2.288) Mallarāma Second \*pauṭṭaparihāra\* (entry into another's body) of Gosāla.¹ 1. Malli, Nineteenth Tīrthaṅkara born in the Bhārata(2) region during the present Osappiṇī.¹ Her contemporary in Eravaya(1) was Marudeva(1).² Malli in her previous birth was king Mahabbala(2) of the city of Viyasogā in Mahāvideha and thereafter a god in Jayaṃta(4), a celestial abode. Now she was born on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, as the daughter of king Kumbha(4) and his queen Pabhāvai(4) of Mihilā.⁴ She was named Malli, for her mother had developed the pregnancy-longing for wearing a wreath of flowers and sleeping on a flower-bed.⁵ She was 25 bows tall and her complexion was blue.⁶ Malli had a younger brother named Malladinna. He and the mendicant Cokkha became the indirect cause of spreading the news of Malli’s flaming beauty.⁷ Paḍibuddhi, Caṃdacchāya, Ruppi(3), Saṃkha(7), Adiṇṇasattu, Jiyasattu(2), the six kings of Sāeya, Campā, Sāvatthī, Vāṇārasī, Hatthiṇāura⁸ and Kaṃpilla, respectively were friends as well as ascetic-fellows of Malli in her previous birth, who now individually demanded her in marriage. When their proposals were not accepted they all attacked king Kumbh. The latter could not withstand the enemy's mighty forces. Malli then thought of a plan to show them the right path. The prospective kings were invited at the mohaṇaghara erected in the park of Asogavaṇiyā(1), installing therein a gold statue of herself. They took it as real Malli and were infatuated with its charming beauty. As soon as Malli arrived there and removed the lid covering a hole over the head of the statue, very foul smell gushed out and the kings began to run away from there. Malli then delivered a religious discourse explaining them the impurity of the body. They all got enlightened and decided to renounce the world. Malli took to asceticism along with three hundred men on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Pausa in the Sahassambavaṇa(4) park. On that occasion she used the Maṇoramā(3) palanquin. Princes like Naṃda(13), Naṃdamitta(2), Sumitta(4), Balamitta(2), Bhāṇumitta(1), Amaravai, Amarasena and Mahasena(9) followed her. Vissasena(3) was the first man to offer alms to Malli.⁹ She obtained omniscience that very day.¹⁰ Her sacred tree was ashoka.¹¹ The six kings as mentioned above became her disciples.¹² Iṃda(3) and Baṃdhumai(1) are said to be her first male and female lay-votaries. Malli had twenty-eight groups of monks (ganas) each under a chief disciple like Bhisaga etc. She had forty thousand monks, fifty five thousand nuns, 184000 lay-votaries (men) and 365000 female lay-votaries. She had under her six hundred monks who were well-versed in fourteen Puvvas, two thousand monks who had avadhi-jñāna, thirty-two hundred omniscients, thirty five hundred wielders of the supernatural power of vikriyā, eight hundred possessors of manaḥ-paryāya-jñāna, fourteen hundred vādins (debators) and two hundred attainers of the Anuttarovavāiya celestial abode. She attained emancipation on Sammeyasela on the fourth day of the bright half of the month of Caitra. She lived fifty-five¹³ thousand years in all (only 100 years as a princess):¹⁴ It is a wonder that a lady became a Titthaṃkara in this Osappiṇī.¹⁵ The redaction of the canon took place 6584980 years after the emancipation of Malli.¹⁶ Her contemporary in Eravaya(1) was Marudevī(2).¹⁷ See also Mallijiṇāyayaṇa. - [Previous: v2.c8.s2.287](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2.287) - [Next: v2.c8.s2.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2.289) - [Up: v2.c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2.288](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s2.288) · Pramāṇa