Uggāhamāna Samaṇa Maṇḍikāputta untranslated

Uggāhamāna Samaṇa Maṇḍikāputta. A Paribbājaka. Once when he was staying near Sāvatthī in Mallikā’s pleasance at the Samayappavādaka hall, the carpenter (thapati), Pañcakaṅga, on his way to see the Buddha, visited him and had a conversation with him, which conversation Pañcakaṅga later reported to the Buddha (MN.ii.22f). The details are given in the Samaṇa Maṇḍikāsutta.

According to Buddhaghosa (MN­a.ii.710), the Paribbājaka’s original name was Sumana, but he was called Uggāhamāna because he had the ability to learn a few things (because he was always learning things?).

Chalmers (Further Dialogues ii.12n) suggests that perhaps his mother’s name was originally Sumanā and that it was altered to Samaṇā, just as there is the further tendency to read muṇḍikā for the second part, in order to make her name mean “shaveling recluse” on familiar Pāli analogy.