Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c27.s2.1

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Udāyibhadda, after a reign of 16 years, was succeeded by his son Anuruddha whose period of reign along with that of his son Muṇḍa was very short, being only 8 years in all. In the Divyāvadāna³ king Muṇḍa is described as the son of Udāyibhadda, and no mention is made of Anuruddha. In the *Aṅguttara Nikāya*,¹ king Muṇḍa is mentioned as approaching bhikkhu Nārada on the death of his queen Bhaddā. He listened to a discourse of bhikkhu Nārada delivered at Pāṭaliputta on the impermanence of worldly things. In the Jaina tradition preserved in the *Pariśiṣṭaparvan* (ch. vi), it is stated that a prince in the guise of a Jaina novice killed Udāyin. Prof. Chattopadhyaya surmises that this novice might be king Muṇḍa.²