Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.367

c8.367

This river was visited by Siddhārtha when he was a Bodhisatta. The golden plate on which the rice-gruel was offered by Sujātā was kept by the Bodhisatta on its bank. He then bathed and partook of the rice-gruel. The plate was then thrown into this river by him saying, ‘Let it go against current, if I be the Buddha today.’ (Jāt., I, 70; Ibid., I, 15-16; Thūpa V., P.T.S., p. 5; Buddha V., Ch. II, v. 64; Ibid., Ch. XX, v. 16; Mahābodhi V., p. 8; Jinacarita, V. 207; Lalitavistara, Ch. 18, p. 267; Dhammapada Commy. I, 86; Papañcasūdanī, II, 183).