mahAnAma
Mahānāma(n) , ( 1 ) regularly °ma, in Mv the name of Yaśodharāʼs father, a Śākyan noble: Mv ii.48.7 ; 73.4 ff. (refuses the first request to give his daughter to the Bodhisattva); identified with characters in stories of the past, ii.114.17 ; 496.11 ; iii.26.12 ; 152.16 ; ( 2 ) (= Pali Mahānāma 3 in DPPN , son of Amitodana and brother of Anuruddha), n. of a disciple of the Buddha, seemingly not to be identified with (3): son of Amṛtodana , brother of Anuruddha and Bhaṭṭika , Mv iii.177.2 ff. (stem °ma); mentioned with Bhadrika (3) and Aniruddha LV 229.12 (stem °man); Mvy 3607 ( nom. °maḥ): ( 3 ) (= Pali °ma 2 in DPPN ), n. of one of the five bhadravargīya monks; [Page423-b] seems not the same as (2), tho in some lists of disciples, e.g. Divy below, his name occurs at the end of a list (partial or complete) of these five, but also just before Aniruddha (like 2): stem °ma, Mv iii.329.1 ; 337.6 ; 339.1 ; Mvy 1044 (°maḥ; prob. belongs here; the names of the five monks are not grouped together in this list); stem °man, SP 1.10 ; LV 1.7 ; Sukh 2.3 ; stem °ma- in comp. , Divy 182.21 ; 268.6 ; Av ii.134.12 . In Śikṣ 69.4 , cited from Pravrajyāntarāyasūtra, voc. Mahānāman, prob. addressed to (2) or (3) but unidentifiable; ( 4 ) n. of a Licchavi of Vaiśālī ( cf. Pali Mahānāma 4 in DPPN ): MSV ii.15.17 ff.