mahASrAvaka
mahāśrāvaka (= Pali mahāsāvaka), important disciple (of Buddha). In general BHS , like Pali , knows no definite number or list of them ( Vism. 98.26 speaks of the number 80); a typical list of 26 names in SP 1.9 ff. , but at the end it adds, ‘and others’; no number given in SP 33.5 ; 121.1 ; LV 6.15 ; Divy 489.11 , etc. Only Mmk makes tentative starts at lists; twice it mentions groups of eight: Mmk 64.9 ff. Śāriputra, Mahāmaudgalyāyana, Mahākāśyapa, Subhūti, Rāhula, Nanda, Bhadrika, Kaphiṇa; but 111.11 ff. varies (1—2 = 2—1 of 64.9 ff. ; then Gavāṃpati, Piṇḍola-Bharadvāja, Pilindavatsa, 6 = 5 above, 7 = 3 above, and 8 Ānanda, who in SP 2.8 is a mere śaikṣa, excluded from the mahāśrāvaka group); in Mmk 40.25 Mahākāśyapa and Mahākātyāyana constitute a pair of mahāśr°; in 13.22 ff. is a very long list, including some familiar and many fanciful and textually doubtful ones; the same is true of the list of females, mahāśrāvikā, which follows in 14.19 ff. (beginning with Yaśodharā); the names in both these lists are omitted here as being largely unreliable.