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Malade va
Muhutta (Muhurta)
A division of time. It is equal to 77 lavas.2 There are thirty Muhuttas in a day and night. They are: Rudda(3), Satta or Sea(3), Mitta(1) Vau(4), Supia or Sugia or Subia, Abhicamda(5), Mähimda(2), Balava or Palamba(3), Bambha(3), Bahusacca or Sacca, Anamda(15), Vijaya(2), Vissasena(4), Payävai(5), Uvasama(1), Isăṇa(5), Tattha, Bhāviappa, Vesamaṇa(1), Varuna(9), Sayavásaha, Gamdhavva(2), Aggivesa(2), Ayava, Taṭṭhava or Anava, Avatta(5) or Amama(1), Bhoma, Vasaha, Savvattha(3) and Rakkhasa(2).
1. Sth. 95.
Mūḍha Momdha.2
An Aṇariya country and its people. It is perhaps the same as
1. PrasA. p. 15.
Maya (Muka)
1. UttCu. p. 63, UttK. p. 41.
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Maya ( Mūkā) Capital of Avaravideha(1) in Jambuddiva. Mahavira in his previous birth reigned there as Cakkavatti Piyamitta(1).1
1. Vis. 1788, 1815, AvaN. 425, AvaCu. I. p. 235.
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2. Praj. 37.
An ascetic belonging to Kosambi,1
Müla One of the twenty-eight Nakkhattas(1)1 Its family-name is Kaccāyana(2).2 Nirai(2) is its presiding deity.3
1. Müladatta
1. Ant. 9.
1. Jam. 155 ff., Sth. 90, 517, 781, Sam.
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2. Sur. 50, Jam. 159. 3. Sth. 90.
10-11, 15, 45.
Tenth chapter of the fifth section of Amtagadadasā.1
2. Müladatta nemi.1
1. Ant. 11.
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Wife of Samba(2). She was initiated by Titthayara Arittha
1. Maladeva A principal character with three other knaves, viz. Sasa, Elasadha and Khamda in the story of Dhuttakkhāṇaga. He appears as the king of Venṇayada in the story of the burglar Mamdita(1). He detects the thief, marries his sister, secures all the looted wealth and then executes him. Before he became the king of Vennayada he was known as the master of crafts and cleverness.2 He was one of the two lovers of courtezan Devadatta(3) of Ujjeni, the other being merchant Ayala(1). The mother of Devadatta did not like Müladeva for he was not a man of riches. She wanted Ayala, whereas Devadatta had great affection for Müladeva who was learned and skillful. Devadatta's mother plotted against Müladeva and got him humiliated by Ayala. Muladeva left Ujjeni. At Vennayaḍa he was caught in a theft. Now the king of that place died heirless and Müladeva 1. NisBh. 294, NisCu, I. pp. 102-105. 2. DasCu. p. 56, NanM. p. 154, AvaCu. I. p. 549, BrhBh. 760.
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