Introduction
Moggallana was one of the Buddha's two chief male disciples, alongside Sariputta, traditionally regarded as foremost among all the monks in supernatural powers (iddhi), including feats of levitation and other psychic abilities described in the texts.
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Foremost in Supernatural Power
Moggallana and Sariputta together formed the Buddha's two closest and most senior disciples, often depicted acting in tandem to support the Sangha's administration and teaching. Later tradition records that Moggallana died violently, killed by bandits, an event that (like Sariputta's death shortly before) is treated in the texts as a significant loss to the early monastic community in the period just before the Buddha's own parinirvana.
This article follows the Pali Canon and its commentarial tradition as the primary early Buddhist textual source; where sources genuinely disagree on a detail (such as an exact parentage), that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into a single invented certainty.