Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c12.s3.28

v1.c12.s3.28

Buddha's missionary activity among the B h a g g a s and the K o l i y a s was not so successful as among the previously stated clans. Buddha visited three nigamas of the Koliyas, and Ānanda one, but there is a remarkable paucity in the number of the converts mentioned as hailing from those places.¹ Still less successful was Buddha's religious mission to the Bhaggas. The only place that was visited by Buddha was the Bhesakalāvana deer-park near Sumsumāragiri and the persons won over were Nakula's parents and Bodhirājakumāra.²