A grove in Cātumā where the Buddha preached the Kūṭadanta Sutta.

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…between Anuruddha and Sāriputta during a stay in Ambapālivana. SN.v.301

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…over her park, the Ambapālivana, to the Buddha and the Order. The Buddha accepted the gift and stayed there some time before going on to Beluva….

AmbāṭakavanaAmbālavana

A grove at Macchikāsaṇḍa, belonging to Cittagahapati. It became the residence of large numbers of monks, and…

…while he was in Andhavana.

The Pārājika Vin.iii.28ff. contains stories of monks who committed offences in the forest with shepherdesses…

…in the Moranivāpa in Veḷuvana near Rājagaha. He was probably one of the company who was with Sakuludāyi when the Buddha came to visit the…

…grievously ill in the Andhavana in Sāvatthī, but the pain made no impression on his mind, because, he says, his mind was well grounded in the…

…in a forest hut in the Mahāvana in Vesāli, near to where the Buddha was, certain wandering ascetics came to him and asked him whether or not a…

…was staying in the Sītavana, and when Anāthapiṇḍika reached there spirits opened the door for him. He found the Buddha walking up and…

Ariṭṭha¹

A monk. He had been subjected by the Saṅgha to the ukkhepanīyakamma for refusal to renounce a sinful doctrine, namely, that the states of mind declared by the Buddha to be stumb …

…visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in the company of Sahali, Ninka, Ākoṭaka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya.

They were disciples of different…

One of the tortures of purgatory. In the distance the grove appears as a mango grove, and when the inhabitants of purgatory enter, wishing to eat the mangoes, leaves which are sharp like swords fall o …

AñjanavanaAñcanavana

A garden at Sāketa. In it was a deer park where the Buddha used to stay. On one such occasion Kakudha came to see him,…

He dwelt in the Añjanavana in a small hut, and there he became Awakened. Thag.55

…when the latter came to Jetavana, and Pasenadi, filled with wonder, offered to provide the monk with all requisites. Aṅgulimāla, however, had…

…Ukkaṭṭha in the Subhagavana, he read the thoughts of Baka, who had conceived the idea that this world was permanent and free from decay and…

…sometimes at the Jātiyāvana where Meṇḍaka, who lived there, came to see him. Vin.ii.242 AN.iii.36

It was there that the precept was laid…

When the Buddha, at Jetavana, laid down the rule that monks should eat one meal a day and that in the morning, Bhaddāli protested and refused to…

…to the Buddha at Veḷuvana for disputing with Abhiñjaka, colleague of Anuruddha. The Buddha sent for the disputants and rebuked them for…

…the Buddha was at Bhesakalāvana, he saw, with his divine eye, Anuruddha dwelling in the Pācīnavaṃsadāya in the Ceti country, and appeared…

Wife of Vessavaṇa and a devout follower of the Buddha. Once, when Sakka went to see the Buddha at the Salaḷāgāra, he found the Buddha engaged in meditation, Bhuñjatī waiting on him and worshipping him …

…joined the Order at Veḷuvana, Sundarika Bhāradvāja on the banks of the Sundarikā, and Bahudhītīka Bhāradvāja in a forest tract in…

…hand and dedicated Veḷuvana for the use of him and of his monks. Vin.i.35ff.

It may have been in Veḷuvana that the king built for the…

…was staying at Bhesakalāvana near by, and Bodhi sent a message by Sañjikāputta, inviting the Buddha to the palace, that he might bless it by…

…Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iv.259 AN.iv.347 records a visit paid by her to the Buddha at Jetavana. The Buddha then preached to her on the uposatha…

…Ujjeni, Gonaddha, Vedisa, Vanasavhya (or Tumbava, v.l. Vanasāvatthi), Kosambī, Sāketa and Sāvatthī; then, finding that the Buddha had gone…

…stayed in the Todeyya-ambavana. Saṅgārava went to see him, and on that occasion was preached the Saṅgārava Sutta. MN.ii.209f.

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…to see the Buddha at Jetavana and asked him why some people earned the reputation of being wrathful and others of being kindly. The Buddha…

A tree in the Asurabhavana SN.v.238 which lives for a whole aeon.

…brought to the Buddha at Jetavana Sāriputta’s bowl and outer robe and his relics wrapt in his water-strainer.

Mahā-Cunda was evidently a…

…said Thig.182–188 SN.i.132 that one day, when Cālā was meditating in the Andhavana, Māra visited her, asking her various questions and trying…

…*

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…there to Jīvaka’s Ambavana, where Jīvaka attended him. After this event, the monks wished the Buddha to have a guard, but this he refused,…

A brahmin of Sāvatthī. Once when the Buddha was ill with cramp and desired hot water Upavāna obtained from Devahita hot water and molasses, which he sent on a pingo by a serving man. Hot fomentations …

…who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and tells him that an arahant has to work hard for nothing. The Buddha points out to him that there is nothing…

A devaputta who once visited the Buddha at the Kalandakanivāpa in Veḷuvana and spoke a verse. SN.i.52

…in the Mahāvana of Vesāli. The Buddha went there to see Vacchagotta, and it was on this occasion that the Tevijja-Vacchagotta…

In the Dhammika Sutta. Snp.379 Erāvaṇa is mentioned among the devas who visited the Buddha to pay him homage. He is also mentioned among the Nāgas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. DN.ii.258

…who visits the Buddha at Jetavana and asks him various questions on castes and their distinctions, from the point of view of their functions. The…

…was staying in the Veḷuvana at Kajangala, the lay followers there heard a sermon from the Buddha and went to the nun Kajaṅgalā to have it…

…saw Udena there in Khemiyambavana and had a conversation with him, recorded in the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. At the conclusion of the talk he declared…

…SN.v.448 the Sītavana, where the Buddha went to visit Soṇa, AN.iii.374 the river Sappinī, on the banks of which lived various…

A spot in Siṃsapāvana near Āḷavī. The Buddha once stayed there during the cold season and was visited by Hatthaka Āḷavaka….

…some distance from Veḷuvana in Rājagaha. Monks coming to Rājagaha from afar were provided with lodging there, and Dabba Mallaputta was put…

…forest tract near Vesāli. When the Buddha was living in the Kūṭāgārasāla, in the…

GundāvanaKundāvanaGuṇḍāvanaKuṇḍāvana

A forest in Madhurā. Mahā Kaccāna stayed there and was visited by Avantiputta, king of Madhurā,…

…at Gomagga in Siṃsapāvana, near Alavi, and asked him if he were one of those who lived happily. The Buddha said he was always happy in any…

A river, on the bank of which was the Upavattana Sālavana of the Mallas of Kusināra, where the Buddha died. DN.ii.137

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…he visited the Buddha at Jetavana after a long interval, and on being asked why he had been absent so long, he replied that he had been kept busy by…

…to see him at the Añjanavana in Sāketā. The nun asked him for what purpose the Buddha requested that samādhi should be practised and Ānanda…

…novice Aciravata at Veḷuvana in Rājagaha and asked him to teach the Doctrine. Reluctantly the novice did so, but at the end of the exposition…

…prince. Owner of Jetavana, which he sold to Anāthapiṇḍika for eighteen crores. He then spent all that money on the erection of a…

JetavanaJeta’s GroveAnāthapiṇḍaka’s ParkAnāthapiṇḍikassa ārāmaAnāthapiṇḍada’s Park

A park in Sāvatthī, in which was built…

…committed a misdemeanour while he was sleeping in Jātiyāvana.

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…visited the Buddha at Jetavana, consulting him on many topics, such as: results of actions, AN.i.56 Nibbana here and now, AN.i.157 brahmins and…

A mango-grove in Rājagaha, belonging to Jīvaka, which he made over to the Buddha and his monks. He built a monastery in the grove, and there the Buddha stayed several times. On one such occasion Ajāt …

…was staying in the Veḷuvana at Kajangala, the lay followers there heard a sermon from the Buddha and went to the nun Kajaṅgalā to have it…

…was residing in the Veḷuvana there, the inhabitants of the village went to her and asked her to explain in detail what the Buddha had taught…

…the woodlands near by, such as the Gosiṅgasālavana. AN.v.133f.

…the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa, and asked him whether he experienced feelings of pleasure and sorrow. The Buddha replied that he had…

…Mahā Kaccāna at the Gundavana near Madhurā and accused him of not paying due respect to elderly brahmins, but when Mahā Kaccāna preached to…

…and at the Mahāvana, among them being Mahānāma, SN.v.369f. AN.iii.284f. AN.iv.220f. AN.v.320f. Nandiya, SN.v.403f.…

Kappāsika VanasaṇḍaKappāsiya Vanasaṇḍa

A grove near Uruvelā. There the a group of men came across the Buddha while seeking for a woman…

A building in the Jetavana where the Mahāpadāna Sutta was taught. DN.ii.1ff.

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…on themselves the Buddha’s stern rebuke.

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…Buddha late one night at Jetavana and uttered several stanzas, admonishing monks to train themselves in their tasks, laying particular stress on the…

…probably near Veḷuvana. It was here that Assaji stayed during his last illness, when the Buddha visited him to comfort him….

…they happened to be at Veḷuvana near by, she expressed great disappointment that these had been invited, when such most eminent disciples as…

…that the peace of the Mahāvana was being disturbed by the Licchavis who came to see the Buddha, he, with the other monks, went to…

KaṇḍakīvanaKantakīvanaTikantakī

A grove near Sāketa. The conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Moggallāna is recorded…

…to places of solitude, such as Gosiṅgasālavana. AN.v.133

…householder of Nāḷandā. Once when the Buddha was staying in the Pāvārika-ambavana at Nāḷandā, Kevaṭṭa visited him….

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke several verses on the desirability of leading the good life. SN.i.57

Khema³

An arahant….

A mango grove near Benares. Udena once stayed there and preached the Ghoṭamukha Sutta. MN.ii.157

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A river in Avīci, flowing alongside the Asipattavana. MN.iii.185

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…Sutta in the Palāsavana at Naḷakapāna. MN.i.462ff.

In three different places in the Aṅguttara Nikāya AN.iii.247 AN.iii.339…

…records a visit paid to her by Māra as she sat resting in Andhavana. He was forced to retire discomfited.

…he invited the Buddha and the monks to a meal when the Buddha was staying at Bhesakalāvana; the palace was just completed. Vin.ii.127 Vin.iv.199…

…sinful desires, he left Jetavana, but boils immediately came out on his body, swelling and bursting. Groaning with pain, he fell down at the gate…

…once stayed in the Siṃsapāvana in Kosambī. SN.v.437

Already in the Buddha’s time there were four establishments of the Order in…

…was meditating in Andhavana a deva appeared before him, and asked him fifteen questions which only the Buddha could answer. This led to the…

…banks of which was the Ambavana; beyond that was the Hiraññavatī river.

After the Buddha’s death his body was carried into the city by the…

KuṇḍadhānavanaKuṇḍiṭṭhānaKuṇḍikāKuṇḍiyāKuṇhāna

It was while the Buddha was dwelling in this monastery that Suppavāsā…

…the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa. He asks the Buddha what profit comes from the Buddha’s way of living.

The conversation leads to a…

…name record visits paid to Kāmabhū by Cittagahapati at Ambāṭakavana in Macchikāsaṇḍa. SN.iv.291 SN.iv.293

…monk, on his way to Jetavana, passed through the place and was asked by a pious layman to complain to the Buddha of their ill-behaviour. On…

…the woods outside the Mahāvana, at the foot of a tree; visitors coming at that time would, if their desire to see him was insistent, DN.i.151…

…Bhaddiya in the Ambāṭakavana, as he sat there enjoying the bliss of arahantship, are included in the Theragāthā. They speak of the fools who…

LaṭṭhivanaLatthivanaLatthivanuyyāna

A grove to the southwest of Rājagaha. In it was the Supatiṭṭha cetiya, where the Buddha stayed during…

…Kūṭāgārasālā in Mahāvana. There the Licchavis visited him in large numbers, sometimes AN.v.133f. disturbing the calm of the spot and…

…contained the Ambāṭakavana, which Citta presented as a monastery for the monks, at the head of whom was Mahānāma.

Sudhamma Thera also…

…from there to the Jīvakambavana, where he was treated by Jīvaka. Vin.ii.193f. It is said SN.i.27f. that seven hundred devas of the Satullapa…

…he stayed there in the Gundāvana, and was visited there by the king of the city, Avantiputta, MN.ii.83 and the brahmin Kandarāyana. AN.i.67…

MaghadevaambavanaMakhādevaambavana

A mango grove in Mithilā where Makhādeva lived in meditation after retiring from household life.

This grove…

…his staying at Vāraṇā on the bank of Kaddamadaha; AN.i.65 at the Gundāvana in Madhurā; AN.i.67 MN.ii.83 and at Tapodā in Rājagaha.

…records a discussion at Jetavana between Savittha, Koṭṭhita and Sāriputta, as to who is best: one who has testified to the truth with body,…

…staying in the Gosiṅgasālavana in the company of Mahā Kassapa, Ānanda, Revata and Anuruddha, engaged in friendly discussion, referring their…

…walking about in the Mahāvana in Vesāli he saw some young Licchavis paying homage to the Buddha and accused them of inconsistency….

…of monks and nuns in Jetavana, the Buddha declared Pajāpatī chief of those who were long ordained. AN.i.25

It is said that once Pajāpatī…

…located.

Vesāli3parkMahāvana²

A wood near Kapilavatthu. In this wood was preached the Mahāsamaya Sutta and the Madhupiṇḍika…

…Pāvā and stayed in the Ambavana of Cunda the smith. A new Mote Hall, called Ubbhataka, had just been completed for the Mallas of Pāvā, and the…

…to the monks in Mahāvana in Vesāli regarding the defilement and filth of the body, and had retired into solitude, many of the monks, in…

A grove in Veḷuvana at Rājagaha. It contained a Paribbājakārāma, the resort of recluses of various denominations. The Udumbarika Sīhanāda,…

…Among those claiming a share of the Buddha’s relics were the Moriyas of Pipphalivana. They came rather late and had to be satisfied with a…

…visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and questioned him regarding predestination. The Buddha explains to him that suffering arises from various…

A grove in Kajaṅgalā. It was there that the Buddha preached the Indriyabhāvanā Sutta. MN.iii.298

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…and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at his feet, calling him “son” and asking why he had been so long…

…and stayed at Bhesakalāvana, they went to see him. They immediately fell at his feet, calling him “son” and asking why he had been so long…

…at the waiting hall at Jetavana. It is said that the Buddha was attracted to the spot by the sound of Nandaka’s preaching, and, finding the door…

…chief of the parks in Tāvatiṃsā, where the inhabitants of Tāvatiṃsā, headed by Indra, go for their…

…lived in the Gosiṅgasālavana. MN.i.205 His Theragāthā verse is a warning to the Dark Lord not to attack a bhikkhu such as he….

NavanavutiyoNavanavatiya

A city in Uttarakuru. DN.iii.201

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…near the village, the Ketakavana and the Palāsavana; in the latter, Sāriputta preached two sermons at the request of the Buddha. AN.v.122f.…

A grove of mucalinda trees in Kimbilā. AN.iii.247

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…noonday siesta in the Mahāvana near by. SN.iii.91f.

Among others mentioned as having stayed at Nigrodhārāma is Lomasakaṅgiya. MN.iii.200 A…

…desiring solitude, retired to the Gosiṅgasālavana. AN.v.133f.

…of the Majjhima Nikāya contains another list: Gūtha, Kukkuḷa, Simbalivana, Asipattavana and Khārodakanadī.

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A park near Hatthigāma, belonging to Uggagahapati. It was there that he first met the Buddha and was converted. AN.iv.213

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…knees before the Buddha. The Buddha returned to Veḷuvana. Vin.ii.194f.

A wood near Naḷakapāna in Kosala. The Buddha stayed there, AN.v.122 and it was there that the Naḷakapāna Sutta was preached. MN.i.462

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…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and uttered a verse to the effect that the man who understands jhāna finds room even among crowding obstacles….

…met him returning from Jetavana, where he had gone early to wait on the Buddha. Pilotika, on being questioned, spoke very highly of the Buddha. It…

…she came unexpectedly to Jetavana where Anuruddha was reciting some verses. The sound pleased her and she stood “smitten to the marrow, like a…

…He visited the Buddha at Jetavana and the Buddha preached to him the Cūḷasāropama Sutta, at the end of which he declared himself the Buddha’s…

…clan) and lord of Subhagavana treated as empty boasts the claims of brahmins and recluses to transcend ordinary human bonds and rise to the…

…visited Samiddhi at the Vejuvana in Rājagaha and said that he had heard the Buddha declare that all action and speech were vain, and that what…

…when the Buddha was at Jetavana, she, with her daughter Uttarā on her hip and the boy’s hand in hers, came to the grove in search of food. She…

…meet him, and went to Andhavana, where Puṇṇa was spending his siesta. Sāriputta questioned him on the seven acts of purity, and Puṇṇa…

…Bhaddasāla in the Rakkhitavanasaṇḍa. There a certain elephant who, finding communal life distasteful, had left his herd, waited on the…

…which grew in the Nandanavana. The devas eagerly watch each stage of development of leaf and flower, and each stage is marked by great…

Pārāsariya¹Pārāpariya

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of how being restrained he has overcome defilements. Thag.116

Pārāsariya²

A brahmin teacher mentioned in the Indriya …

Pāvārikambavana¹

The mango grove of Pāvārika of Kosambī.

Kosambī3parkPāvārikambavana²

A mango grove at Nāḷandā…

…was staying in the Siṃsapāvana near by, he was convinced of the error of his views. Thereupon he instituted an almsgiving to all who sought his…

…forest tract near the village of Pārileyya. There the Buddha retired and lived at the foot of the…

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and asked if one could, by travelling, reach the end of the world where there would be no birth, old age, death,…

…went with him alone to Andhavana, and preached to him the Cūḷa Rāhulovāda Sutta. At the end of the discourse, Rāhula became an arahant,…

…Rājagaha—e.g., Sītavana, Jīvaka’s Ambavana, Pipphaliguhā, Udumbarikārāma, Moranivāpa with its Paribbājakārāma, Tapodārāma,…

…devaputta, follower of Makkhali Gosāla. He visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana, in the company of several other Devas, and spoke…

SakkaVatrabhūVāsavaMaghavāMāghaPurindadaSahassakkhaSahassanettaSujampatiKosiya

Almost always spoken of as chief of the devas. The Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.229 contains a list of his names.

• Maghavā, be …

…building in Jetavana. Once when Sakka went to visit the Buddha he found him in the Salaḷāgāra, wrapt in samādhi, with Bhuñjatī…

…of how a bhikkhu in the Sītavana (Cool Grove) is victorious. Thag.6

Sambhūta²Sānavāsī

When the Vajjiputtaka heresy arose, his help…

A Mahā Brahmā, whose name means “ever young”. In the Nikāyas DN.i.121 MN.i.358 SN.i.153 AN.v.327 he is mentioned as the author of a famous verse, which is eleswhere attribued to the Buddha. SN.ii.284 …

A disciple of the Buddha at Ñātikā. He was born after death in Akanitthābhavana, there to pass entirely away. DN.ii.92 SN.v.358f.

…mountain cave in the Sītavana, near Rājagaha. DN.ii.116 A conversation which took place there between Sāriputta and Upasena, just before the…

…of the Sarabhū, which flowed through the Añjanavana.

Saryu1river

…her meditation in the Andhavana under a tree when Māra, in the guise of a stranger, approached her and tried to tempt her. But she refuted his…

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and held a conversation with him regarding the giving of food. He tells the Buddha that he was formerly a king, a…

…Setavyā was the Siṃsapāvana, where Kumāra Kassapa lived, and where he preached the Pāyāsi Sutta to the brahmin Pāyāsi, who held a royal…

…83.34133parkSiṃsapāvana²Sīsapāvane

A grove in Kosambī, where the Buddha once stayed. SN.v.437

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…the foot of a tree in Andhavana, Māra, wishing to interrupt her privacy, approached her, invisible in the air, and teased her, remarking on the…

…and he went to Sītavana, but many people visited him and he was unable to concentrate. He strove hard, and, through pacing up and down in…

…the Brahmanimantanika Sutta MN.i.326 SN.i.142 It was under a sāla tree in Subhagavana that the Mūlapariyāya Sutta was preached….

…speak of how in Jīvakambavana, a libertine, in the prime of youth, seeing her going to her siesta, stopped her, inviting her to sensual…

…visits the Buddha at Veḷuvana and tells him that his heart is full of dismay. The Buddha replies that the only path out of sorrow is by way of…

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and spoke two stanzas on the value of earnestness. SN.i.53

Sudatta³SudantaKumāputtassa therassa…

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and stated that a man can be purified only by knowledge of the Vedas. The Buddha answered that it is not knowledge…

…with his mother, at the Mahāvana, and begged that he would give her a son, so that the Licchavis might not confiscate their wealth for want of an…

…she saw the Buddha at Añjanavana and listened to his preaching. Even as she sat there her insight was completed, and she became an arahant. She…

…as having lived in Andhavana with Khema. Together they visited the Buddha, and, when Khema had gone away, Sumana talked with the Buddha about…

…from the direction of Jetavana. After some days, the heretics hired some villains to kill Sundarī and hide her body under a heap of rubbish near…

…the city was the Bhesakalāvana where the Buddha stayed.

During his visits there he preached the Anumāna Sutta MN.i.95f. and the Bodhirāja…

…Kāḷaka, and the Tikantakivana, AN.iii.169 both of which were evidently near the city. Mention is also made SN.v.174 SN.v.298f. Vin.i.289 of…

…Near the city was the Andhavana. Between Sāketa and Sāvatthī was Toraṇavatthu. SN.iv.374

The Buddha passed the greater part of his monastic…

…Thera so loved the Sītavana that he came to be called “Sitavaniya.

Ekavihāriya is also mentioned its delighting in the solitude of…

…to find the Buddha at Sītavana.Vin.ii.155f. SN.i.211 He is mentioned among the chief Yakkhas to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time…

A messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

Messenger of Vessavaṇa. DN.iii.201

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana and, having listened to his teaching, entered the Order. Metteyya retired with his teacher into the forest and not…

…death, in the Khemiyambavana near Benares. There the brahmin Ghoṭamukha visited him. Their conversation is recorded in the Ghoṭamukha…

…was staying in the Jātiyāvana at Bhaddiya, Uggaha invited him and three monks to a meal at his house. At the conclusion of the meal, he asked…

…he visited the Buddha at Jetavana to consult him as to the efficacy of the sacrifice. Three times he told the Buddha that he had heard that the…

…visited the Buddha at Jetavana late at night. They charged the Buddha with inconsistency, but later, begging his forgiveness, they were pardoned…

…was in the Subhagavana at Ukkaṭṭha that the Mūlapariyāya Sutta MN.i.1ff. was preached.

In the Brahmanimantika Sutta MN.i.326…

…to visit the Buddha, they moved to the Gosiṅgasālavana in search of quiet.

…taking her siesta in Andhavana, Māra tried to arouse in her sensual desires, but she vanquished him and became an arahant. This account is found…

…to those that came to Jetavana. Among the visitors was a banker, and when the banker expressed the desire to give something to Upananda to show…

A monk who was occasionally the attendant of the Buddha, and who features in a number of discourses. Once when the Buddha was attacked by cramp, Upavāna, with the help of his lay-friend Devahita, obt …

…came across, in Andhavana, some meat left behind, obviously for her, by some kind-hearted thief.; having cooked the meat, she took it to…

…the day alone in the Mahāvana, and he went there and sat down at the foot of a tree. Meanwhile the householder Tapassu arrived and told Ānanda…

…Uruvelā, to the Kappāsikavanasanda and converted the Bhaddavaggiyā. Vin.i.23f. At Uruvelā dwelt also the Tebhātika-Jatilas:…

…the Buddha at the Añjanavana in Sāketa. He utters a stanza, and the Buddha, in another stanza, amplifies what he has said….

…Kapīvanta, Janogha, Navanavatiya, Ambara-Ambaravatiya and Āḷakamandā, the last being the chief city.

The king of Uttarakuru is Kuvera,…

…Once as she passed Jetavana at sunset looking for food, with her daughter on her hip and holding her son by his finger, she saw the assembly,…

…she was meditating in Andhavana at Sāvatthī, Māra questioned her as to the origin of a “being”, its creator, its origin, its destiny….

…city lying between Vedisa and Kosambī, on the road taken by Bāvarī’s disciples….

A monk whose Theragāthā verse speaks of his delight to be meditating in nature. Thag.13

There is a separate verse also ascribed to a Vacchagotta on the same theme. Thag.113

…lives, and is told, in Veḷuvana. Vassakāra thinks this a good place for the practice of jhāna, and tells Ānanda of a conversation he once had…

…of which she gave her Ambavana for the use of the Order. DN.ii.98

Among eminent followers of the Buddha who lived in Vesāli, special mention is…

…visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana and spoke of their beliefs. Vetambarī spoke two verses, one condemning asceticism, and the other, which followed…

…bitter, Snp.674 and the river flows by the Asipattavana.

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VeḷukaṇṭakīVeḷukaṇḍakīVeḷukaṇḍakiyāVeḷukaṇṭakiyā

A lady of Veḷukaṇṭa. She is mentioned as an exemplary lay woman.AN.i.88 AN.ii.164 AN.i.26 SN.ii.236 She founded, for the Order headed by Sāriputta and …

…the Buddha’s stay at Veḷuvana, Dabba Mallaputta, at his own request, was appointed regulator of lodgings and apportioner of rations. Vin.ii.74…

A class of non human beings generally described as non-human. They are mentioned with Devas, Rakkhasas, Dānavas, Gandhabbas, Kinnaras, and Mahoragas (? Nāgas).

Elsewhere AN.ii.38 they rank, in progr …

…in the Mahāvana, he discovered that the Vajjian monks had raised the “Ten Points” contrary to the Buddha’s teachings, and…

…to see the Buddha at Jetavana. There they stood talking to the monks who lived there and made a great uproar. The Buddha, sending Ānanda to…

YonaYavānaYonakā

A country and its people. The name is probably the Pāḷi equivalent for Ionians, the Baktrian Greeks. The Yonas are mentioned with the Kambojas in the Assalāyana Sutta MN.ii.149 as pl …

…visited the Buddha at Veḷuvana accompanied by Asama, Sahali, Ninka, Vetambarī and Mānava-Gāmiya. Ākoṭaka spoke before the Buddha in praise…

ĀmalakīvanaĀmalakivana

A grove at Cātumā. The Buddha once stayed there, and it was on that occasion that the Cātumā Sutta was preached….