[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c35.2098 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.2098 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.2098 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c35.2098](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.2098) It was probably during this visit of the Buddha to Vesālī that Suddhodana died.⁴ According to one account,⁵ the Buddha went through the air to visit his dying father and to preach to him, thereby enabling him to attain arahantship before his death. It is not possible to know how many visits were paid by the Buddha to Vesāli, but the books would lead us to infer that they were several. Various Vinaya rules are mentioned⁶ as having been laid down at Vesāli. It was during a stay in Vesali, whither he had gone from Kapilavatthu, that Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī followed the Buddha with five hundred other Sākyan women, and, with the help of Ānanda's intervention, obtained permission for women to enter the Order under certain conditions.⁷ - [Previous: v2.c35.2097](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.2097) - [Next: v2.c35.2099](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.2099) - [Up: v2.c35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.2098](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.2098) · Pramāṇa