Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2583

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Ambapālivana.—The grove presented by Ambapāli to the Buddha and the Order. It was in Vesāli and was given to the Buddha during his last tour in that town, at the conclusion of the meal to which Ambapāli had invited him.¹ But both the Buddha and the monks seem to have stayed there previously during their visits to Vesāli.² The Buddha is stated to have preached three suttas in the grove, two of them being on the value of the *satipatthāna*.³ In the third sutta⁴ he dwells on the impermanence of all *saṅkhāras* and proceeds to describe the process by which the whole world will ultimately be destroyed by seven suns arising in the world and drying everything up. In this sutta appears also the story of the teacher Sunetta, who, even after becoming the Great Brahmā, is yet subject to old age and death.