[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.c36.314 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.314 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.314 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c36.314](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.314) At that time, thirty men of Sāvatthi, who had entered the Order and had practised the duties of higher ordination for four years, wished to engage in meditation. The Buddha, foreseeing danger for them, sent them to Sāriputta. Sāriputta advised them to take with them the novice Saṅkicca, and they reluctantly agreed. After a journey of one hundred and twenty leagues, they came to a village of one thousand families, where they stayed at the request of the inhabitants, who provided all their needs. At the beginning of the rains, the monks agreed among themselves not to talk to one another; if any among them fell ill, he was to strike a bell. One day, as the monks were eating their meal on the banks of a neighbouring river, a poor man who had travelled far stood near them and they gave him some food. He then decided to stay with them, but after two months, wishing to see his daughter, he left the monks without a word. He travelled through a forest where lived five hundred robbers, who had vowed to offer a human sacrifice to a spirit of the forest. - [Previous: v2.c36.313](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.313) - [Next: v2.c36.315](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.315) - [Up: v2.c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.314](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.314) · Pramāṇa