Tribes in Ancient India c33.128

c33.128

Besides the three retreats built by the three bankers, we read of another Buddhist retreat in or near Kauśāmbī, which was known as Badarikārāma.⁵ The Deer Park in Bhesakaḷāvana or Kesakaḷāvana⁶ in the neighbourhood of Sumsumāragira, the principal town in the Bhagga province, then ruled by Prince Bodhi as Viceroy, was the other important Buddhist retreat and early centre of Buddhist activity in the Vatsa dominion. The Park evidently belonged to Prince Bodhi, who became an ardent lay supporter of Buddhism. The story of a cordial entertainment of the Buddha and his disciples in the famous ‘Lotus Palace’ then built by Prince Bodhi is narrated in the Majjhima Nikāya.⁷