user10105: Where can I find the Tripitaka source of the Death of Ven. Moggallana? The part of him being beaten by thugs and then came to the Buddha to take permission to go into parinibbana.

user8157: My impression is this story is not from the suttas. 

According to the Commentaries (J.v.125ff) his death resulted from a
  plot of the Niganthas. Moggallāna used to visit various worlds and
  return with his report that he had discovered that those who followed
  the Buddha's teaching reached happy worlds, while the followers of the
  heretics were reborn in woeful conditions. These statements diminished
  the number of the heretics and they bribed brigands to kill
  Moggallāna. They surrounded the Elder's cell in Kālasilā, but he,
  aware of their intentions, escaped through the keyhole. On six
  successive days this happened; on the seventh, they caught him and
  beat him, crushing his bones and leaving him for dead. Having
  recovered consciousness, with a great effort of will, he dragged
  himself to the Buddha in order to take his leave, and there he died,
  to the sorrow of the deva worlds. This sad death is said to have been
  the result of a sin committed by him in a previous birth. Acting on
  the instigation of his wife, he had taken his blind parents into a
  forest, where, pretending that they were attacked by thieves, he had
  beaten them to death. For this deed he suffered in hell for
  innumerable years, and in his last birth lost his life by violence.
The account in DhA.iii.65ff. differs in several details. The thieves
  tried for two months before succeeding in their plot and, in the story
  of the past, when the blind parents were being beaten, they cried out
  to the supposed thieves to spare their son. Moggallāna, very touched
  by this, did not kill them. Before passing into Nibbāna, he preached
  to the Buddha, at his request, and performed many miracles, returning
  to Kālasilā to die. According to the Jātaka account his cremation was
  performed with much honour, and the Buddha had the relics collected
  and a Thūpa erected in Veluvana.
Mahā Moggallāna Thera


10105: <p>Where can I find the Tripitaka source of the Death of Ven. Moggallana? The part of him being beaten by thugs and then came to the Buddha to take permission to go into parinibbana.</p>
 8157: <p>My impression is this story is not from the suttas. </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>According to the Commentaries (J.v.125ff) his death resulted from a
  plot of the Niganthas. Moggallāna used to visit various worlds and
  return with his report that he had discovered that those who followed
  the Buddha's teaching reached happy worlds, while the followers of the
  heretics were reborn in woeful conditions. These statements diminished
  the number of the heretics and they bribed brigands to kill
  Moggallāna. They surrounded the Elder's cell in Kālasilā, but he,
  aware of their intentions, escaped through the keyhole. On six
  successive days this happened; on the seventh, they caught him and
  beat him, crushing his bones and leaving him for dead. Having
  recovered consciousness, with a great effort of will, he dragged
  himself to the Buddha in order to take his leave, and there he died,
  to the sorrow of the deva worlds. This sad death is said to have been
  the result of a sin committed by him in a previous birth. Acting on
  the instigation of his wife, he had taken his blind parents into a
  forest, where, pretending that they were attacked by thieves, he had
  beaten them to death. For this deed he suffered in hell for
  innumerable years, and in his last birth lost his life by violence.</p>
  
  <p>The account in DhA.iii.65ff. differs in several details. The thieves
  tried for two months before succeeding in their plot and, in the story
  of the past, when the blind parents were being beaten, they cried out
  to the supposed thieves to spare their son. Moggallāna, very touched
  by this, did not kill them. Before passing into Nibbāna, he preached
  to the Buddha, at his request, and performed many miracles, returning
  to Kālasilā to die. According to the Jātaka account his cremation was
  performed with much honour, and the Buddha had the relics collected
  and a Thūpa erected in Veluvana.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/maha/maha_moggallana_th.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mahā Moggallāna Thera</a></p>
</blockquote>
