Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.354

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**Vattaniya.**—A hermitage (*senāsana*) where lived Rohaṇa Nāgasena’s teacher, by whom he was ordained, and Assagutta, with whom he spent a *vassa* in order to train himself for debate.¹ Assagutta, who ordained the Ājīvaka Janasāna (*q.v.*), is also said to have been “*Vattaniyasenāsana*.”² At the ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa foundation, the **Thera Uttara** came from “*Vattaniyasenāsana*” in Viñjhāṭavī with sixty thousand others.³ Both the Visuddhimagga and the Aṭṭhasālinī mention a Thera named Assagutta, evidently a visitor, who, seeing the monks at Vattaniyasenāsana eating dry food, resolved “Every day before meals may the pool of water take on the taste of milk curds.” From that day the pool water tasted of curds before the meal and became natural water again after the meal.