Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c14.s9.3
Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c14.s9.3
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v1.c14.s9.3
The mandate issued by the Assembly of the Mallas of Kusinārā that persons not according welcome to Buddha would be fined 500 *kahāpaṇas* shows that there was among the Mallas a party opposed to Buddha and his religion. Malla Roja belonged to this party but on coming into contact with Buddha, he could not resist turning an *upāsaka*.² Of the two well-known converts from this clan, one was Dabba Mallaputta, the distributor of food and assigner of residences to the monks at Rājagaha, while the other was Cunda kammāraputta of Pāvā who by serving to Buddha his last meal became a prominent figure in the Buddhist literature.³