Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.3076

v2.c31.3076

2. Mucalinda.—A tree near the Ajapālanigrodha in Uruvelā. The Buddha spent there the third week after the Enlightenment. There was a great shower of rain, and the Nāga-king, Mucalinda, of the tree, sheltered the Buddha by winding his coils seven times round the Buddha’s body and holding his hood over the Buddha’s head.¹ The Udāna Commentary² adds that the space provided by the Nāga’s coils was as large as the floor-space of the Lohapāsāda and that the Nāga king lived in a pond near the tree.