Dear Lance,
Thanks for your take on Mahābhidhāna which sounds reasonable to me. I think
the terms abhidhāna and nāma are synonymous. so one can see how Mahānāma is
interchangeable with Mahābhidhāna..
I'll be interested in reading the article you and Petra are working on.
Best,
Jim
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Dear Jim,
Both Petra and I are currently working on articles wholly or partly
concerned with the disciples of Sāriputta of Poḷonnaruva; so probably
neither of us will want to say too much about that yet.
However, I take Mahābhidhāna as others have done in the past i.e. as a
descriptive epithet: 'with the name Mahā'. In other words Mahābhidhāna
is a poetic way of expressing Mahānāma. Otherwise one could take it as
meaning 'having a famous name'. His name would then most probably be
Upatissa or Sāriputta or perhaps Moggallāna.
Lance