Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c8.315
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c8.315
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1. Isipatana.—An open space near Benares, the site of the famous Migadāya or Deer Park. It was eighteen leagues from Uruvelā, and when Gotama gave up his austere penances his friends, the Pañcavaggiya monks, left him and went to Isipatana.¹ After his Enlightenment the Buddha, leaving Uruvelā, joined them in Isipatana, and it was there that he preached his first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, on the full-moon day of Āsāḷha.² There, also, the Buddha spent his first rainy season.³