Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.511

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c8.511

*Uruvelā (Uruvilva)*.—It was in Magadha. The Bodhisattva after his adoption of ascetic life selected this place as the most fitting for meditation and attainment of enlightenment (*Jāt.*, I, 56). The Buddha, just after his attainment of enlightenment, lived at Uruvelā at the foot of the Ajapāla banyan tree on the bank of the river Nerañjanā (*Saṃ.*, I, 103ff. 122; V.

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Jātaka — Pāli
Saṃyuttanikāya — Pāli