Tribes in Ancient India c50.362

c50.362

As might be expected, the Pāli Buddhist literature has references to Pāṭaliputra, but as it had not grown up into a city in the Buddha’s lifetime, it does not find such frequent mention as Rājagṛha, the ancient capital. However, on one occasion, the upāsakas of Pāṭaligāma, as it then was, built an Āvasathāgāra (living-house), and they invited the Buddha on the occasion of its opening ceremony.⁴ An influential Brahmin householder of Benares named Ghoṭamukha built a vihāra at Pāṭaliputra for Udena, a bhikkhu, and the vihāra was called Ghoṭamukhī.⁵ Another bhikkhu, Bhadda, dwelt at Kukkūṭārāma near Pāṭaligāma, and had conversations with Ānanda, the Buddha’s famous disciple.⁶