Geography of Early Buddhism c7.21

c7.21

The Buddha met an Ājīvika named Upaka on his way to Benares to preach the wheel of Law at Isipatana Migadāya (Therī GC., p. 220). He reached Benares after crossing the Ganges at Prayāga direct from Verañjā¹. The Buddha spent a great part of his life at Benares. Here he delivered some of the most important discourses and converted many people (AN., Vol. I, pp. 110 ff., pp. 279-280; Ibid., III, pp. 320-322, pp. 392 ff., pp. 399 ff.; SN., I, pp. 105-106; VT., I, pp. 102-103, pp. 110-112).