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128 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
Šakyas and the Koliyas as independent political powers appeared among the rival claimants for shares of the Buddha's bodily remains. Among other claimants, we have mention of the Bulis of Allakappa, the Moriyas of Pipphalivana and the Kalamas of Kesaputta. We know practically nothing about the Bulis and the Kālāmas save and except that they were two of the small ruling clans. As for the Moriyas of Pipphalivana, according to the Mahāvamsa commen*tary, two are the possible derivations of their name, one from the word modiya meaning delightful and the other from the word mora meaning peacock. According to the first derivation, the Moriyas were so called because they lived in a delightful land, and according to the second, they were called Moriyas bocause they founded their city in a locality which always resounded with the cries of peacocks. The Mahavamsa commentary (pp. 119-121) traces the origin of the Maurya dynasty of Magadha to the Moriyas of Pipphalivana. Candagutta, according to this tradition, was born of the queen-consort of the.Moriyan king of Pipphalivana. This is evidently in conflict with the account in the Mudrārākṣasa.
Turning at last to the peoples placed in the Brahmanical Mid-land, we have to take into
↑ Mahāvamsa-Tikā (Sinhalese ed.), p. 119f.; Law, Some KsatriyaTribes of Ancient India, pp. 211-212.
