Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.1524

v2.c35.1524

With the construction of the Migāramātupāsāda (q.v.) in the Pubbārāma Visākhā’s ambitions were fulfilled, and it is said¹⁷ that when the monastery was completed and the festival of opening in progress, as the evening drew on she walked round the monastery accompanied by her children, her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren, and in five stanzas sang her joy, saying, “Now is entirely fulfilled the prayer which I prayed in times of yore.”¹⁸