Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c26.1306

v2.c26.1306

The Commentaries say² that when the Buddha, having realized the futility of austerities, left the Pañcavaggiyas, he retired to Uruvelā, on the banks of the Nerañjarā, and there, just before the Enlightenment, Sujātā gave him a meal of milk-rice, taking him to be a god. Before eating the food, he bathed in the ford called Suppatiṭṭha. Under the bed of the river lay the abode of the Nāga-king, Kāla. There was a sāla grove on the banks, where the Buddha spent the afternoon previous to the night of the Enlightenment.