Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.602

c6.602

Pārireya (Pali: Pārileyyaka, Skt.: Pareraka).—This was the name of a woodland guarded by the elephant Pārileyyaka. Failing to settle the dispute among the monks at Kauśāmbī, the Buddha came to live here and spent one rainy season, being attended by the elephant Pārileyyaka and a monkey. The way to this woodland from Kauśāmbī lay through a village. The Pārileyyakavana-saṇḍa occurs in the Bārhut Jātaka level No. 8 (Barua and Sinha, *Barhut Inscriptions*, p. 62). Its location is unknown. Most probably this forest was not very far from Kauśāmbī (cf. *Saṃyutta*, III, 94-95; *Vinaya-Mahāvagga*, X, 4, 6).