Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.327

v1.c14.327

Elsewhere⁶ it is stated that every year, in the earlier half of the month of Phagguna (March), people held a bathing festival at the bathing ghat at Gayā, the festival being called Gayāphaggunī. It was at one of these festivals that Senaka Thera was converted by the Buddha. This explanation of Gayāphaggu is, perhaps, not quite correct, for, according to some,⁷ the river (Nerañjarā) which ran by Gayā was itself called Phaggu (Skt. Phalgu).