Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.97
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.97
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In Magadha was the real birth of Buddhism,¹³ and it was from Magadha that it spread after the Third Council. The Buddha's chief disciples, Sāriputta and Moggallāna, came from Magadha.¹⁴ In Asoka's time the income from the four gates of his capital of Pāṭaliputta was four hundred thousand kahāpaṇas daily, and in the Sabhā, or Council, he would daily receive another hundred thousand kahāpaṇas.¹⁵ The cornfields of Magadha were rich and fertile,¹⁶ and each Magadha field was about one gāvuta in extent.¹⁷