…spent some time there, has left a vivid description of it (Buddhist India 262f). It continued to be the capital during the greater part of the…

…was that the Buddha’s Chief Disciples had to go to reclaim them. Vin.ii.199 DhA.i.121 J.i.142, 425, 490f J.iv.180 It is said J.i.185, 508;…

…Ten Points, but the latter refused to express an opinion in private. On Revata’s suggestion a jury of eight, four from either side, was appointed…

…Ariyans regarding the threefold defilement and purification of the body, the fourfold defilement and purification of the speech, and the…

NerañjarāyaNerañjara

A river. After the Enlightenment, the Buddha lived under the Ajapāla Nigrodha at Uruvelā, on the banks of this river. There Māra tempted him, and, later, Brahmā persuaded him to …

…Ud.vii.1 Ud.vii.2 makes reference to the admonitions of Sāriputta and to the Buddha’s joy when these had the desired effect.

The Buddha…

…the Buddha when the monks refused to ordain him during the rainy season. Vin.i.153

The books contain numerous suttas preached by the Buddha to…

…season, they all put forth effort and attained arahantship. Some time after, the Buddha visited Vesāli during a journey and asked Ānanda to send…

A shrine at Vesāli. DN.ii.75 DN.ii.102 Ud.vi.1

Vesāli3shrine

PippaliguhāPipphaligūhā

A cave near Rājagaha, evidently a favourite haunt of Mahā Kassapa. Once when he lay there grievously ill, the Buddha visited him and cheered him by talking to him of the seven …

One of the chief consorts of King Udena. In the Udāna it is said that she was the head of 500 women of the harem of the King who perished in afire,…

A city of the Mallas which the Buddha visited during his last journey, going there from Bhogagāma and stopping at Cunda’s mango grove.

Cunda lived in Pāvā and invited the Buddha to a meal, which prov …

…Moggallāna was left to supervise the work with five hundred other monks. Moggallāna made use of his iddhi powers in order to…