བསླབ་པ་ལྔའ་ཕན་ཡན་གྱ་མད notes.19

notes.19

19. Pali bhesakalāvane migadāye, Tib. sman gyi nags ri dags rgyu ba’i gnas (“the deer park [called] medicinal grove”). The Pali grammar is ambiguous as to whether the deer park is inside the Bhesakalā grove or the Bhesakalā grove is the deer park. According to the commentary on the Saṃyuttanikāya, the Sāratthappakāsinī, “[t]he grove received its name from the fact that its presiding spirit was a Yakkhinī called Bhesākalā (SA.ii.181)” (DPPN, vol. 2, pp. 392–93).