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Rāhula , ( 1 ) (= Pali id. ; Aśokan Lāghula with gh, held to be older than h, but quite possibly hyper- Skt. ) n. of Śākyamuniʼs son; also Rāhulabhadra (= Pali °bhadda), so in Mv i.154.3 ; iii.175.16, 19 ; Gv 51.11 ; SP 219.12 ; 220.2 ; also Rāhulaśiri Mv i.128.13 (°śirisya, gen. ); iii.271.3 (°śiriṃ); his birth was miraculous but not aupapāduka , Mv i.153.8, 14 ; 154.3 ; he descended from the Tuṣita heaven into Yaśodharāʼs womb, Mv ii.159.3 ; discovers that the Buddha is his father and insists on becoming a monk, Mv iii.257.17 ff. ; is ordained by Śāriputra at the Buddhaʼs command, 268.5 ff. ; remained 6 years in his motherʼs womb because of an offense against the Bodhisattva in a former birth, Mv iii.172.5 ; 175.16, 19 ; in a list of 8 mahāśrāvaka Mmk 111.12 ; No. 33 of a list of 34 mahāśrāvaka Sukh 2.11 ; last of 26 mahāśrāvaka, SP 2.8 ; in list of śrāvaka Mvy 1039 ; of bhikṣus, LV 2.3 ; other references Mv i.170.4 ; ii.114.7 ; iii.142.15 et alibi (see Index); SP 215.3 ; 220.5, 9 ; Sukh 92.7 (as a mahāśrāvaka); Suv 12.12 ; 200.9 ; Yaśodharā is called Rāhulaśirisya mātā Mv i.128.13 ; Rāhulasya jananī Mv ii.135.14 , and cf. next; ( 2 ) n. of a cakravartin king: Mvy 3611 .