añjanavana

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, SN.i.54 and also the wanderer Kuṇḍaliya, SN.v.73 who lived near by. Here were preached the Sāketa Sutta and the Jarā Sutta.

When Ānanda was staying there a nun of the Jaṭila persuasion visited him and questioned him on the use of samādhi. AN.iv.427–428

There Sujātā met the Buddha, and having listened to his discourse became an arahant. Thig.145–150

26.8, 82.21park