[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c7.161 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.161 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c7.161 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c7.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.161) Ātumā.—A town that lay between Kusinārā and Sāvatthi. Once the Buddha, with a large company of bhikkhus, visited the town. At that time there dwelt in it a monk who had been ordained late in life (a buḍḍhapabbajita, identified by Buddhaghosa¹ with the buḍḍhapabbajita Subhadda) and had formerly been a barber. He had two sons, handsome, elegant and well versed in the barber’s art. When the monk heard of the Buddha’s coming, he sent his sons from house to house to collect salt and oil and rice and meal. The young men, using all their powers of persuasion, collected a large quantity of each of these things, and when the Buddha arrived in Ātumā and went to stay in the Bhūsāgāra, they made ready rice-gruel and offered it to him. The Buddha, however, would not accept it as the monk, who had had the food collected, had been guilty of an unlawful act in that one monk had begged for others. - [Previous: v1.c7.160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.160) - [Next: v1.c7.162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.162) - [Up: v1.c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.161) · Pramāṇa