Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.502

v1.c14.502

Several places are mentioned as having been visited by the Buddha during his sojourns on Gijjhakuṭa, and it may be inferred from accounts given of these visits that these places were within easy reach of the hill. Such, for example, are the Paṭibhānakūṭa (S. v. 448), the Sītavana, where the Buddha went to visit Soṇa (A. iii. 374), the river Sappinī, on the banks of which lived various paribbājakas, including Sarabha (A. i. 185; ii. 29, 176), the Paribbājakārāma of Udumbarikā, the residence of Nigrodha, near the Moranivāpa on the lake Sumāgadhā (D. iii. 39), and the park Maddakucchi, where the Buddha was removed after the injury to his foot (DhA. ii. 164). The Sūkara-khatalena was on the slope of Gijjhakuṭa, and there the Buddha was once visited by Dīghanakha (S. v. 233; M. i. 497). Jīvaka’s mango-grove lay between Gijjhakuṭa and the walls of Rājagaha (DA. i. 150).