Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.451

c8.451

*Sattapaṇṇi Cave*.—It was on a side of the Vebhāra mountain where the First Buddhist Council was held under the presidency of Mahākassapa and under the patronage of king Ajātaśatru (*Samantapāsādikā*, I, p. 10). It derived its name from the Saptaparṇa creeper which stood beside it marking it out. According to the *Mahāvastu* (Vol. I, p. 70), it stood on the north side on an excellent slope of the Vaihāra mountain. It agrees with the account of Fa-hien which places the cave on the north of the hill (Legge, *Fa-hien*, pp. 84-85). Hiuen Tsang in agreement with Fa-hien locates the cave about 5 or 6 li south-west from the Bamboo Park, on the north side of the south mountain in a great bamboo wood (Watters, *On Yuan Chwang*, II, 159).