J899.] Dr. Waddell — Identity of JJpagu'pla with Moggaliptitta Tisso. 71 



in question is believed to date from about the middle of the 5th 

 century A.D.* 



To exhibit this agreement I here arrange extracts from these 

 two respective books in parallel columns : — 



AgOKAVADANA.f MaHAVAMSA.J 



He is likened to Buddha. 



" The glorious Upagupta...the 

 chief amongst the interpreters 

 of the Law, and a veritable 

 Buddha, without the external 

 signs... he will fill the role of a 

 Buddha," p. 337. 



His origin. 



Upagupta was the son of a 

 seller of perfume in Benares, 

 p. 336.§ 



His ordination. 



Upagupta was converted by 

 Ta9as or Yashka (a resident of 

 fouaka)^ who was for a time 

 the great Sthavira at the Kuk- 

 kutarama monastery at Patali- 

 putra, pp. 336, 337. 



His precocity. 



" He attained Arhatship of 

 an exceptionally high order 

 ■within three years of entering 

 the Buddhist order,** becoming 



" The illuminator of the Religion 

 of the Jina (Buddha), the Thero, 

 son of Moggali...who has heard 

 his eloquence without considering 

 it the eloquence of the supreme 

 Buddha himself," pp. 33 and 71. 



Moggaliputta Tisso was in his 

 former existence seller of houey in 

 Benares, p. 25. || 



Moggaliputta Tisso was taught 

 by a pupil of Sonaka (a pupil of 

 'Dasako') who was the great 

 Thero at the Kukkutarama monas- 

 tery of Pataliputra, pp. 28 and 30. 



" This superlatively- gifted per- 

 son having attained that qualifica- 

 tion, in a short time arrived at the 

 sanctification of Sotapatti,..and 



* Tumour's MaMvamsa, p. xxx. Max Miiller's Sacred Books of the East, X, 

 p. 13. 



t The extracts are taken from the second edition of Burnouf's Indian 

 Buddhism already quoted. . 



X The extracts are from Tumour's translation. 



§ Vide my article, J.A.8.B., p. 78. 



II Mr. Tnrnour identifies this Tisso as A9ota's young brother Devanariipiyo Tisso 

 apparently for the reason that the name is mentioned in juxtaposition with Agoka 

 and his wife, but it follows the name of the other great mouk of Pataliputra 

 •Nigrodho,' and the text of the Mahavamsa is here very involved aud corrupt. 



% Rockhill's Life of Buddha from the Tibetan, p. 173. 



*• Tide my art. above cited, p. 78. 



