Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c11.26

v1.c11.26

After achieving his object, for seven days he entered into the *Prityābhāravyūha-samādhi*,¹ enjoying the bliss of Nirvāṇa. In the second week he walked to and fro, cogitating over all the worlds (*trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu*), in the third, he fixed his gaze on the Bodhi tree, thinking all the while that he had put an end to the beginningless birth, old age and death, and in the fourth he walked again to and fro, this time his object of thought being the area between the eastern and the western ocean,² the fifth week, a week of great cold and wind, he spent in the palace of Mucilinda Nāga, the sixth at the foot of Nyagrodha tree of Ajapāla, and the seventh at the foot of Tārāyaṇa tree, when he came across the two traders of Uttarāpatha,³ Trapusa and Bhallika and made them his first lay disciples.⁴