Tribes in Ancient India c50.323

c50.323

Other sites in or near Rājagṛha, which find mention in Pāli literature, were the deer-park at Maddakucchī,⁹ Pippali- or Pippaliguhā a cave which became a favourite resort of Mahākassapa,¹⁰ and which was visited by the Buddha,¹¹ Ambasanda (Skt. Āmrakhaṇḍa), a Brahmin village,¹² and the Laṭṭhivana (Skt. Yaṣṭivana), the royal park of Bimbisāra where the Buddha arrived from Gayāsīsa (the main hills of Gayā) and halted with the Jaṭila converts on his way to the city of Rājagṛha.¹ The Pāsānaka-cetiya (Pāsāna-caitya) is famous in Buddhist tradition as the place where the Buddha had delivered the Pārāyaṇa Discourses,² now embodied in the concluding book of the Suttanipāta.³ Other places which find mention in Pāli literature are Macalagāma,⁴ Maṇimālaka-cetiya ⁵ and Andhaka-vindha.⁶