History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.36

History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.36

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Mahākassapa, disciple of Buddha, 108, 136 Mahāli, n.pr., 20 mahā-māhaṇa, a great brāhmaṇa, 52 mahāmānasa, Ā. measure of time, 254, 257 mahā-mātra (Skt.), -matta (Pāli), a minister or government official, 132, 136, 148-9 Mahāmoggallāna, disciple of Buddha, 126 māhaṇa (Pkt.), a brāhmaṇa, 52 n. 6 Mahānandin, k., 144 Mahāniddesa, Pāli text, 273 Mahānimittas, Ā. scriptures, 56, 117, 213-16 Mahāpadāna Sutta, 12-4 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, 4, 148, 272 Mahāpurisa, 1, 77 mahāpuruṣas, eight, 256 Mahāsaccaka Sutta, 118, 123-4 Mahāsīlakaṇṭae, battle, 69 Mahāvamsa, Sinhalese chronicle, 73-4, 89, 145; quoted, 73 n. 2; comm., 131, 145-7 Mahāvastu, Buddhist Skt. text, 34, 78, 83 Mahāvīra, founder of Jainism, 8, 12, 17, 22, 31-5, 40-54, 58-62, 64, 66, 69-71, 75-7, 83, 89, 96, 100, 108-9, 114, 127, 130, 133, 138, 140-2, 174, 229-230, 234, 236, 254, 274-5, 277-8; meeting with M.G., 39; illness, 67 Mahāyāna, the form of Buddhism now practised in the Far East and Tibet, 280; literature, 165 Maheśvara, god = Śiva, 170 Mahmūd of Ghaznī, 207 Majjhima Nikāya, Pāli scripture, 18, 20, 23-4, 27-8, 91, 96, 118-120, 126, 134, 228; quoted, 19 n. 7, 96 n. 2, 118 n. 1, 123 n. 4, 135 n. 1, 229 n. 1 makara, a fabulous sea monster, 154 Makkhali Gosāla, chief leader of the Ās., passim; doctrine, 13; predecessors, 27-34; life, 34-66; birth, 35-9; meeting with Mahāvīra, 39; peregrinations, 41-7; and sesamum plant, 47-9; and Vesiyāyaṇa, 49-50; attains magic power, 50; leader of Ās., 51; taciturnity, 52;

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compared to fisherman, 54; compared to hair blanket, 55; last days, 56-66; exposed by Mahāvīra, 58; visits Mahāvīra, 60; delirium, 61; repentance and death, 64-6; date of death, 66-78; name and titles, 78-9; reincarnations of, 142; status, 275-7; deified, 276; etymology of name, 36-8 Malabar, pl., 195, 198, 282 Malalasekera, G. P., 89, 92 Mallarāma, n.pr., 32 Mallinātha, commentator, 166; quoted, 166 n. 4 Malliṣeṇa, Jaina commentator, 184, 222, 260, 276; quoted, 222 n. 5 mana, impersonal magical power, 284 Mānasa, Ā. heavens, 250-1, 273 mānaykaṇ (Tam.), captain, 134 maṇḍalar (Tam.), v. maṇṭalar maṇḍala-mokṣa, the Ā. doctrine of cyclic salvation, 124, 174, 257-261 maṇḍāra, a celestial flower, 136 Maṇḍiyakucchi, caitya, 31 Maṅgala, pl., 43 mango, 64, 85, 130; stone, 61, 63, 86 Māṇibhadda (Pkt.), Maṇibhadra (Skt.), Ā. god, a yakṣa, 128, 131, 142, 247, 257, 272-4 Maṇimēkalai, Tam. poem and its heroine, 81, 91, 187, 197, 200, 215, 238-9, 244, 263-6, 269, 276-7, 280; quoted, 81 n. 5, 91 nn. 6, 9, 238 n. 3, 244 n. 5, 263 nn. 2-6, 264 nn. 1-4, 265 nn. 2-4 Maṅkha, n.pr., 36 maṅkha, type of mendicant, 8, 35-7, 50, 78, 208 Maṅkhali, father of M.G., 36, 78-9 Maṅkhaliputta, patronymic of M.G., 78 Maṅki, n.pr., 9, 34, 38, 162, 218 maṇṭalar (Tam.), saints who return from nirvāṇa, 260-1, 281-2 Manu, lawbook of, 282 Mānusa, seven, 14, 251 Mānusuttara, Ā. heavens, 250-1, 273 Māra, god, the tempter of Buddhism, 86, 198 mārga (Skt.), v. magga Markali, Tam.

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form of name of M.G., 34, 52, 78-9, 81, 115, 125, 172, 215, 242, 272, 276-7, 280; -nūl, Book of M., 215-16, 263 Maskarin Gośāla, Gośālīkāputra, Gośālīputra, Skt. form of name of M.G., q.v. maskarin, an ascetic bearing a staff, 79, 99-100, 165-7, 171, 182 material-ism, -ist, 5, 18, 23, 200, 267; v. also Cārvāka, Lokāyata, nāstika math, a Hindu monastery, 105 Mattavilāsa, Skt. farce, 126 matter, 267 Maudgalyāyana, disciple of Buddha, 80, 199, 200 Maukhari, clan, 155, 158 Maurya, dynasty, 138, 145-162, 193, 196, 278, 286-7 meat, eating, by Ās., 122 ; by Buddha and Mahāvīra, 123 Menander, Greco-Bactrian k., 67 Meṇḍhiyagāma, pl., 67 mendicants, wandering, 94-107 ; types of Ā., 111, 119 merchants, story of, 59 ; class, 285 Mercury, planet, 169-171, 184 ; metal, 185 metempsychosis, 5 Migāra, n.pr., 97, 132, 137-8 Milinda-pañha, Pāli text, 10, 21, 67 ; quoted, 21 nn. 1, 2 Mīmāṃsaka, school of Hindu philosophy, 229 miracle contest, at Sāvatthi, 84-90 mokṣa, salvation, 176, 180, 259 molecules, 267, 269 monastery, Ā., 81, 201-2 monism, 6, 280 monotheism, Hebrew, 7 Moses, 37 Mucalinda, lake, 251 Mudrārākṣasa, drama, 35, 167-8 ; quoted, 35 n. 7 Mukta, n.pr., 206 mukta, a soul released from transmigration (in Pāñcarātra system), 281 Mūlācāra, Jaina text, 204 muni, sage, 49, 198 Muslim, 154-5, 157, 192, 207 mystery cults, 96