Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.401

c8.401

The Buddha was invited by the lay worshippers of Pāṭaligāma on the occasion of the opening ceremony of a living house (āvasathāgāra) (Vinaya-piṭaka, I, pp. 226-8). A monastery was built at Pāṭaliputra by an influential Brahmin householder of Benares for a Buddhist monk named Udena (Majjhima, II, 157ff.). A monk named Bhadda dwelt at Kukkuṭārāma near Pāṭaligāma and had conversations with the Buddha's famous disciple named Ānanda (Samyutta, V. 15-16, 171-2). King Pāṇḍu of Pāṭaliputra was converted to Buddhism (Law, *Dāṭhāvamsa*, Intro., xii-xiv). Sthulabhadra, who was the leader of some of the Jaina monks, summoned a council at Pāṭaliputra, about 200 years after the death of Mahāvīra, to collect sacred Jaina literature. Bhadrabāhu refused to accept the work of this Council (Stevenson, Heart of Jainism, p. 72).