Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.189
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.189
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v2.c29.189
Bahuputta-, Bahuputtaka-cetiya.—A shrine in the neighbourhood of Vesālī, to the north of that city.¹ The Buddha is said to have stayed there.² It was a pre-Buddhistic shrine and, according to the Commentaries,³ was a many-branched nigrodha tree where persons prayed for sons to the deva of the tree. Hence its name.