Dighanikaya 2.150_3

2.150_3

Ayaṃ pana jīvako ekasmiṃ samaye bhagavato dosābhisannaṃ kāyaṃ virecetvā siveyyakaṃ dussayugaṃ datvā vatthānumodanāpariyosāne sotāpattiphale patiṭṭhāya cintesi – ‘‘mayā divasassa dvattikkhattuṃ buddhupaṭṭhānaṃ gantabbaṃ, idañca veḷuvanaṃ atidūre, mayhaṃ pana ambavanaṃ uyyānaṃ āsannataraṃ, yaṃnūnāhaṃ ettha bhagavato vihāraṃ kāreyya’’nti. So tasmiṃ ambavane rattiṭṭhānadivāṭhānaleṇakuṭimaṇḍapādīni sampādetvā bhagavato anucchavikaṃ gandhakuṭiṃ kārāpetvā ambavanaṃ aṭṭhārasahatthubbedhena tambapaṭṭavaṇṇena pākārena parikkhipāpetvā buddhappamukhaṃ bhikkhusaṅghaṃ sacīvarabhattena santappetvā dakkhiṇodakaṃ pātetvā vihāraṃ niyyātesi. Taṃ sandhāya vuttaṃ – ‘‘jīvakassa komārabhaccassa ambavane’’ti.

Now on one occasion, having purged the Blessed One's body when it was overwhelmed by a disturbance of the humours, and having presented him with a pair of clothes from Sivi, Jīvaka became established in the fruit of stream-entry at the end of the thanksgiving for the cloth, and thought: "I must go to attend upon the Buddha two or three times a day, and this Veḷuvana is too far, whereas my mango grove park is nearer. What if I were to have a monastery built for the Blessed One here?" In that mango grove, having provided night-quarters, day-quarters, cells, huts, pavilions, and so forth, having had a perfumed chamber built suitable for the Blessed One, having had the mango grove enclosed by an eighteen-cubit high wall the colour of a copper plate, and having satisfied the Saṅgha of monks headed by the Buddha with food together with robes, he poured the water of dedication and handed over the monastery. Referring to that, it was said: "in the mango grove of Jīvaka Komārabhacca".