dIrGanaKa
Dīrghanakha (= Pali Dīgha°), n. of a mendicant to whom Buddha preached the Dīrghanakhasya parivrājakasya sūtraṃ: Mv iii.67.7 ( to be put in , kartavyam, but not quoted here); in Pali it is MN i.497 ff. , and a version [Page265-b] occurs in Av 99 ; acc. to DPPN , D. was a nephew of Sāriputta (but no citation is furnished for this; the MN sutta does not say so); in Av ii.186.9 ff. and MSV iv.22.1 he is the uncle (motherʼs brother) of Śāriputra; in this story his given name was (Mahā-)Koṣṭhila , q.v. ; he had the surname Agnivaiśyāyana , q.v.