History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.36.1

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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;