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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Mahapaduma - A Pacceka Buddha, chief of five hundred Pacceka Buddhas, all sons of Padumavati. He alone was born of his mother"s womb, the others being samsedaja. After Padumavati"s rivals (for the earlier part of their story see Uppalavanna) had placed the children in caskets which they launched down stream, they announced to the king that Padumavati was a non human and had given birth to a log of wood. He expelled her from the palace, and as she wandered about in the streets, deprived of all her glory, an old woman had pity on her, took her home, and looked after her. The king was bathing in the river when the caskets containing the children got entangled in his nets, and, having taken them out and unlocked them, he found the babes inside, together with a letter from Sakka saying that they were the children of Padumavati. The king hastened back to his palace and issued a proclamation that anyone finding Padumavati would receive one thousand as reward. On Padumavati"s suggestion, the old woman, her protector, offered to find her, and Padumavati then revealed herself. She was conducted back to the palace in all glory, and her five hundred rivals were given to her as slaves. She had them freed, and appointed them as nurses to look after her children, except Paduma (called Mahapaduma), whom she nursed herself. When Mahapaduma and his brothers reached the age of sixteen, they went one day to the park, where they were impressed by the appearance of old and faded lotus among the fresh ones growing in the pond, and developing this topic of thought, they became Pacceka Buddhas and went to Nandamula cave. Padumavati died of grief at the loss of all her sons and was reborn in a labourer"s family. She married, and, one day, while taking gruel to her husband, she saw eight Pacceka Buddhas (her sons in a previous birth) travelling through the air and descending near to where she stood. She gave them the food intended for her husband and invited them for the next day. The next day all the five hundred came to do honour to their mother and to accept her entertainment. She fed them all and offered flowers to them (ThigA.185ff). Afterwards Mahapaduma and his brothers were entertained by Nanda, king of Benares, and his queen (who in their last birth were Maha Kassapa and Bhadda Kapilani).
They stayed in the royal park during the rains, and, one day, when the king was away, the queen visited them and found them dead. ThagA.ii.140f.; SA.ii.142; AA.i.98,190ff.; MA.ii.889.
2. Mahapaduma - A prince of Kumudanagara. Sona Thera — who harboured enmity against Piyadassi Buddha, just as Devadatta did against Gotama — persuaded Paduma to kill his father, and devised various schemes for killing the Buddha, all of which failed. In the end he sent his elephant Donamukha, drunk with toddy, to attack the Buddha, who, however, subdued the animal. BuA.174; cp. Ajatasattu.
3. Mahapaduma - A Pacceka Buddha. Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Paduma, Maha.
Starts with: Mahapaduma-jataka.
Full-text: Silapattapokkharani, Uttara Raja Putta, Uddaya, Donamukha, Tuladhara, Padumavati, Cinca Manavika, Ilanaga, Upatissa, Mahapaduma-jataka, Piyadassi, Khaggavisana Sutta, Gandhamadana, Vasabha, Paduma, Paccekabuddha, Mahakapi Jataka, Shona.
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The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Mahā Paduma Jātaka of Dvadassa Nipata < [Chapter 25 - The Buddha’s Seventh Vassa]
Part 4 - Story of Cincamana (Cincamanavika) < [Chapter 25 - The Buddha’s Seventh Vassa]
Biography (3) Uppalavaṇṇā Therī < [Chapter 44 - Life Histories of Bhikkhunī Arahats]
The Life of Sariputta (by Nyanaponika Thera)
Abhidhamma in Daily Life (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa) (by Ashin Janakabhivamsa)
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Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology (by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri)
Mahāpaduma Jātaka < [Chapter 3 - Amarāvatī and the Formative Stage of the Buddhist Art]
The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 120: Bandhanamokkha-jātaka < [Book I - Ekanipāta]
Jataka 472: Mahā-Paduma-jātaka < [Volume 4]
Apadana commentary (Atthakatha) (by U Lu Pe Win)
Commentary on the stanza on the forest-deer < [Commentary on biography of Silent Buddhas (Paccekabuddha)]
Commentary on the Biography of the Thera Mahākassapa < [Chapter 1 - Buddhavagga (Buddha section)]