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Namgalā (Nangala) A village visited by Mahāvira accompanied by Gosāla. He meditated there in the shrine of Vasudevaghara. Gosāla was beaten there for frightening the children. It lay between Haleddua and Avatta(4) 1. AvaN. 481, AvaCu. I. p. 289, Vis. 1935, KalpDh. p. 106, KalpV.p. 165,
AvaM. p. 280. Namgola (Nāngola) An Amtsradiva.1
1. Praj. 36. Namngoli (Nangolin) Same as Nangoliya.1
1. Jiv. 111. Namgoliya (Năngolika) One of the fifty-six Amtaradivas in Lavaṇasamudda. It is the same as Nāmgola.
1. Jiv. 111, NanM. p. 103, Sth. 304. 1. Namda (Nanda) A barber-slave belonging to the city of Padalipatta. He took over as king of the city after the death of Udāi(2), son of Kúniya. The kings succeeding him were also known by the same name and thus it came to be known as a dynasty. King Mahāpauma(8) who was defeated by Camdautta, was the ninth as well as the last king of the Namda dynasty.1 1. AvaCu. II. pp. 179 ff., AcaCu. p. 64, DasCu. p. 52, Kalpv. p. 253, KalpDh.p,165,
AvaH. p. 433. 2. Ņamdā A merchant of Pādaliputta who was very greedy. He was sentenced to death by the king of the town for some crime.1
1. AvaCu. I. p. 528, II. p. 293, KalpCu. p. 101. Aval. p. 397.
3. Namda A celestial abode in Mahāsukka(1) where gods live for a period of fifteen Sāgaropama years, breathe once in fifteen fortnights and feel hungry once in fifteen thousand years.1
1. Sam, 15.
4. Ņamda A resident of Siddhatthapura who was the first to give alms to Seijamsa(1), the eleventh Titthamkara.1
1. AvaM. p. 227, Sam. 157, AvaN. 324, 328. 5. Namda A resident of Bambhaņāgāma. Mahāvīra had once accepted alms from him. Uvaņamda(2) was his brother.? 1. AvaN. 476, AvaCu. I. p. 283, Vis. 2. AvaCu. I. p. 283.
1928-1930, KalpV. p. 164, KalpDh. p. 105.
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