[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [Early Monastic Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941) › v1.c19.s5.4 # Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c19.s5.4 Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c19.s5.4 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5.4) The monks were still then dwelling at foots of trees, on hills, in grottoes and caves, in cemeteries, forests, open places, or on straw-heaps.⁴ The \*seṭṭhis\* of Rājagaha were the first to come forward to provide \*vihāra\*, \*aḍḍhayoga\*, \*pāsāda\*, \*hammiya\* and \*guhā\* for the monks.⁵ They built sixty \*vihāras\*, and dedicated the same to the use of members of the order of the four corners (\*saṭṭhiṃ vihāre āgatānāgatassa cātuddissassa saṃghassa paṭiṭṭhāpehīti\*). These had plastered walls, white-washed or coloured, and were provided with doors and windows, verandahs, boundary walls, etc.¹ The vihāras so far constructed were provided with the bare requirements of monks as shown above. It was Anāthapiṇḍika who built a monastery at Sāvatthi with all its component parts, \*viz.\*, dwelling rooms, cells, gate-chambers, service-halls, halls with fire-places, store-houses, closets, cloisters, rooms for walking exercises, wells, sheds for the well, bathing places, bath-rooms, tanks, pavilions (\*vihāra\*, \*pariveṇa\*, \*koṭṭhaka\*, \*upaṭṭhānasālā\*, \*aggisālā\*, \*kappiyakuṭi\*, \*vaccakuṭi\*, \*caṅkama\*, \*caṅkamasālā\*, \*udapāna\*, \*udapānasālā\*, \*jantāghara\*, \*jantāgharasālā\*, \*pokkharaṇī\*, \*maṇḍapa\*).² - [Previous: v1.c19.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5.3) - [Next: v1.c19.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5.5) - [Up: v1.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s5.4) · Pramāṇa