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2. Moyà A town having the shrine of Namdana(9) to its north-east. It was visited by Mahāvīra.1
1. Bha. 126, BhaA. p. 169.
Moraa or Morāga ( Morāka) A settlement visited by Mahāvira. Acchamdaga and Imdasamma (2) belonged to this place.1
1. Ava N. 465-6, Kalpv. pp. 157, 162, Vis. 1920. AvaCu. I. pp. 275-276.
1. Moria (Maurya ) Father of Moriyaputta(1) who was the seventh Ganadhara of Mahāvīra. He belonged to the Kāsava lineage. Vijayadevă was his wife. He was a resident of Moriya(3) settlement.
1. AvaN. 648-49, Vis. 2509-11. 2. Moria Same as Moriyaputta(1).1
1. Vis. 2343, Avan. 623. 3. Moria A settlement where Moria(2) and Mamdiya(3), the two brothers, were born.
1. AvaN. 645, Vis, 2506.
1. Moriyaputta (Mauryaputra ) Seventh Gañadhara of Titthayara Mahāvīra. He had 350 disciples.? He belonged to Moriya(3) settlement. His brother's name was Mamda3 (2) and his parents were Moriya(1) and Vijayadevă. At the age of sixtyfive Moriyaputta was initiated by Titthayara Mahāvira.5 He got emancipation at the age of ninety-five. 1. Kalp (Theravali) 3, Kalpv. pp. putta because his elder brother who 247-8, Nan. V, 21 ; AvaN. 595, 623,
was initiated along with him on the Vis. 2013, 2343, 2437.
same day was fifty-three years old. 2. Kalp. (Therāvali). 3. KalpV. p. 248.
It seems that Moriyaputta was 3. Ava N. 645.
fifty-three and Mardiyaputta sixty4. AvaN. 648.
five at that time. 5. Sam. 65. Abhayadeva Suri (SamA. 6. Sam. 95.
p. 78) doubts the age of Moriya2. Moriyaputta Another name of Tāmali,
1. Bha. 134. Moli (Mauli or Mallaki) One of the sixteen janapadas (countries ) in the time of Mahāvīra. It is mentioned along with Vajja(2), Kasi and Kosala(1), hence it might be a reference to the republic of Mallas or Mallakis who had Kusinārā and Pāvā as their capitals in the modern Gorakhpur district.? 1. Bha. 554.
12. IDETBJ. pp.125-26, TAI. pp. 257 ff.
Mosali A settlement visited by Mahāvira. Sumāgaha who belongd to it helped Mahāvira's release. 1
1. Vis. 1966, AvaN. 511, AvaCu. 1. p. 313.
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