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Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.1085

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c16.1085

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Cūḷāmaṇicetiya.—A cetiya in Tāvatiṃsa one league in height, raised by Sakka over the hair cut off by the Buddha when he donned an ascetic’s robes on the banks of the Anomā.¹ After the Buddha’s death, Sakka added to the hair the right collar bone taken by him from Doṇa (q.v.), who was trying to conceal it in his turban.²