Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.364

v2.c29.364

⁵ Vin. i. 35 ff. It was this gift of Veḷuvana which formed the model for Devānaṃpiyatissa’s gift of the Mahāmeghavana to Mahinda (Mhv. xv. 17). The gift of Veḷuvana was one of the incidents sculptured in the Relic chamber of the Mahā Thūpa (Mhv. xxx. 80). It may have been in Veḷuvana that the king built for the monks a storeyed house, fully plastered (Vin. ii. 154). With the attainment of sopātatti, the king declared that all the five ambitions of his life had been fulfilled: that he might become king, that the Buddha might visit his realm, that he might wait on the Buddha, that the Buddha might teach him the doctrine, that he might understand it (Vin. i. 36). According to BuA. (p. 18 f.) the king became a sotāpanna after listening to the Mahā Nārada Jātaka.