Pāli Dictionary

Assapura

Place

アンガ国の都市で、仏陀が『大馬邑経』と『小馬邑経』を説いた場所。チェーティヤ・ジャータカによれば、アパチャーラ王の子がそこで白馬を見た後に建てたとされる。

A city in the kingdom of Aṅga. It was here that the Mahā-Assapura and Cūḷa-Assapura Suttas were taught by the Buddha (M.i.271 ff; 281 ff; MA.i.483).

According to the Cetiya Jātaka, Assapura was built by the second of the five sons of King Apacara of Ceti, on the spot where he saw a pure white horse. It lay to the south of Sotthivatī, Upacara’s capital. J.iii.460.

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