mOdgalyAyana
Maudgalyāyana , ( 1 ) also Mahā-m° , = Pali Moggallāna, gotra-name and usual appellation of Kolita , often paired with Śāriputra as leading disciples of the Buddha: story of his conversion, Mv iii.56.16 ff. ; 57.18 etc. ; the forms without and with Mahā- often interchange in the same passage and sometimes without significance, but the Buddha himself always speaks of or to him as Maud° (without Mahā-), e.g. in contexts where Mahā- is usually prefixed, Divy 160.13, 17 ; 299.16 (but in 18 Ānanda calls him Mahā-m°); Av ii.91.15 ; Aśoka refers to him without Mahā-, but in a vs , Divy 395.20 ; other cases without Mahā-, Mvy 1033 ; Divy 50.29 ff. ; 182.22 ; 268.6 ; 314.15 ; 486.25 ; Av i.241.7 etc. ; Sukh 31.3 ; Karmav 161.18 ; et passim ; ( 2 ) pl. , n. of a brahmanical gotra: Divy 635.13 ; cf. Maudgalyāyanīgotreṇa, of the nakṣatra Uttarāṣāḍha, Divy 640.22 .