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66. Phra : Pandoravaku devaya thera
67...................
68. Phra: MettagQ.........
69. „ TLnpa sona andhaka pura thera
70. ,j Vammala thera
71. „ Sona bho vassa thera
72. „ Subahu thera
73. „ Pugna labbha thera
74. „ Gambhira thera
75- « Vanria Koiadanna thera
76. „ Nanda Savaka thera
77. „ Sariputta thera
78. „ Pupnalabbhana puta thera
79. „ Anuradha thera
80. „ Maha moggalana thera.1
31. A. Earth thinks that this list of eighty theras
was probably that of eighty disciples of Buddha and
that they were mostly contemporary of Buddha. No-
where, however, a complete list of Buddha's disciples
is to be found. Many names of this list are familiar
to us, but some are quite strange.
From this Pali inscription of the Buddhapada of
Sukhodaya that on the year 1970 after the parinibbana
of the master SrI-Sakyamuni Gotama, when Sri
Sumedhamkara was sangha-raja^ the son of the sup-
reme king of the law (mahadhammadhiraja-raja\
who by his prosperity, his knowledge, his high quali-
1. Le Siam Ancien, pp. 245-247.