[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970) › v2.c8.s3.232 # Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s3.232 Prakrit Proper Names (Āgamic Index I) v2.c8.s3.232 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c8.s3.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3.232) Rāyagiha ( Rājagṛha ) A city situated in Dāhiṇaddha-Bharaha of Jambudīva.¹ It was the capital of Magaha, an Āriya country.² Nālamdā was a subrub of it.³ Rāyagiha was founded by king Paseṇai(5) at a distance of a krośa from Kusaggapura, the old capital of Magaha. Its three other earlier names were Usabhapura(1), Caṇagapura and Khitipaittthia(2).⁴ A big forest lay near Rāyagiha.⁵ There were situated on the outskirts of Rāyagiha the shrines of Mamliyakucci,⁶ Guṇasila,⁷ Muggarapāṇi⁸ and Maṇināga,⁹ the parks of Pupphārāma,¹⁰ Ṇilaguhā,¹¹ Pupphakaraṃḍaa(2)¹² and Subhūmi-bhāga(3)¹³ and a pool of hot water called Mahātavovatīra.¹⁴ To the south of Rāyagiha there lay Sihaguhā, a den of thieves.¹⁵ Rāyagiha had a cosmopolitan market (Kuttiyāvaṇa).¹⁶ There prevailed in Rāyagiha the custom of worshipping the \*sāla\* tree.¹⁷ It was the birth-place of Titthayara Muṇisuvvaya (1).¹⁸ He broke his first fast there.¹⁹ Vāsudeva(1) Purisasiha in his previous birth made a resolve (\*nidāna\*) in this city.²⁰ Titthayara Pāsa(1) visited it and initiated many persons.²¹ Cakkavaṭṭi Bambhadatta(1) had visited this city.²² Jarāsandha, the farher of Sahadeva(2), reigned here.²³ He had famous courtezans like Magahasenā, Magahasumdarī and Magahasirī²⁴ King Jiyasttu(15)²⁵ reigned in Rāyagiha in the life-time of Titthayara Pāsa. Seṇia(1) king of Rāyagiha, was a contemporary of Titthayara Māhāvīra.²⁶ King Pajjoya once attacked this city.²⁷ It was a place of activities of heretics like Kālodāyi, Selodāyi etc.²⁸ Titthayara Mahāvīra spent his fourteen rainy seasons at Rāyagiha and Nālamdā. Besides, he often visited them.²⁹ Eleven chief disciples (Gaṇadharas) of Mahāvīra attained emancipation at Rāyagiha.³⁰ Mahāvīra initiated here several persons like Seṇiya's sons Jāli(4), Dīhasena(3) etc.³¹ and Seṇiya's wives Namdā(1), Bhaddā(2)³² etc., a number of merchants and their sons such as Isidāsa(2), Dhaṇṇa(5), Meha(3), Kāsava(6), Vārattaga(2) etc.³³ and many others.³⁴ His lay-votaries like Mahāsayaa(2)³⁵ Sulasā(2)³⁶, etc. belonged to Rāyagiha. Merchants Vijaya(6), Ānamda(3) and Suṇamda(5) of this city offered alms to Titthayara Mahāvīra.³⁷ Mahāvīra held discussions with Goyama(1)³⁸, Mamḍiyaputta³⁹ and Seṇia⁴⁰ on religion and philosophy in this city. He preached here the following chapters : the first section, the ninth chapter of the fifth section and the tenth, eleventh, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth sections of Viyāhapaṇṇatti⁴¹, Pajjusaṇākappa⁴², Āyatitṭhāṇa⁴³ etc. Goṣāla requested here Mahāvīra to admit him as his pupil.⁴⁴ He performed here his first \*pauṭṭaparihāra\* and entered the dead body of Eṇejjaga(1).⁴⁵ Mahāvīra had predicted that Gosāla would be born twice as a prostitute in Rāyagiha.⁴⁶ Sudhamma(1), a chief disciple of Mahāvīra pearched here the second section of \*Nāyādhammakahā\*⁴⁷, \*Suhavivāga\*⁴⁸ and \*Aṇuttarovāiyadasā\*⁴⁹ to his disciple Jambu(1). Pabhāsa(1)⁵⁰, a Gaṇadhara of Mahāvīra and Meyajja(3)⁵¹ belonged to Rāyagiha. Preceptor Pabhava initiated Sejjambhava in this city.⁵² Bhaddabāhu(1) had four merchant disciples who hailed from this city.⁵³ This place was visited by ascetics like Sambhūya(1)⁵⁴, Dhamma-ghosa(6)⁵⁵, Dhammarui(2) and Āsādhabhui.⁵⁶ Second Niṇhava Tisagutta propounded his new doctrine here.⁵⁷ Āsādha(1), the third Niṇhava, was set right here by king Balabhadda(4).⁵⁸ Two other Niṇhavas, namely, Āsamitta⁵⁹ and Gaṅga⁶⁰, were also made to realise their faults in their new doctrines in this city. Merchants like Dhaṇṇa(6)⁶¹, Namda(1)⁶², Dhaṇa(10)⁶³, Dhaṇā-vaha(3)⁶⁴ Mammaṇa⁶⁵, Dāmaṇṇaga⁶⁶ etc. and gardener Ajjuṇaa⁶⁷ were the residents of Rāyagiha. - [Previous: v2.c8.s3.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3.231) - [Next: v2.c8.s3.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3.233) - [Up: v2.c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mehta-chandra-1970.v2.c8.s3.232) · Pramāṇa