Anupiya

Place

Also known as Anupiyā

Une petite ville du pays des Mallas dont le bosquet de manguiers fut l’endroit où le Bouddha passa sa première semaine après avoir renoncé au monde, et où plus tard de nombreux princes Sakya, dont Ānanda et Devadatta, entrèrent dans l’Ordre.

A township in the Malla country to the east of Kapilavatthu. In the mango grove there (the Anupiya-ambavana) the Buddha, having arrived from Anomā and having ordained himself, spent the first week after his renunciation, before going to Rājagaha, thirty leagues away.¹ He went there again after his return from Kapilavatthu, to where he had gone to see his relations, and large numbers of Sakyan princes joined the Order, including Bhaddiya, Anuruddha, Ānanda, Bhagu, Kimbila, Devadatta, and their barber, Upāli.²

It was during this stay that the Buddha taught the Sukhavihāri Jātaka.³ From Anupiya the Buddha went to Kosambi.⁴ Near Anupiya was the pleasance where the paribbājaka of the Bhaggavagotta lived. The Buddha visited him once while staying at Anupiya and it was then that he taught the Pāṭhika Sutta.⁵

Anupiya was the birthplace of Dabba Mallaputta.⁶

Once when Soṇa Poṭiriyaputta was meditating the Buddha sent forth a ray of glory from the mango grove to encourage him.⁷

The mango grove belonged to the Malla-rājās; they built a vihāra therein for the Buddha’s residence.⁸

The name is sometimes spelt Anopiya and Anūpiya.⁹