[Buddha-l] Re: buddha-l Digest, Vol 32, Issue 17

[Dan Lusthaus]

Joy,

The shaming doesn't come from calling him "son of a fisherman" -- though
there has been some debate about that -- but from calling Sati a moghapurisa
in front of everyone, then making him sit in the corner wearing a dunce cap
while Buddha instructs the OTHER monks, reminding everyone at the end of the
lesson that Sati is a hopeless dummy.

The PTS Pali-Eng Dict gives this for mogha:

empty, vain, useless, stupid, foolish; stupidity, dullness of mind & soul,
delusion, bewilderment, infatuation.

Dan