Bhojaputta
PlaceA name for a resident of the Bhoja country, a region identified with modern Berar, one of whom the deity Rohitassa recalled having been in a previous birth.
Evidently the name for a resident of the Bhoja country.
In the Saṃyuttanikāya (S.i.6 f) the devaputta Rohitassa says that he was a Bhojaputta in his previous birth.
The Jātakā (J.i.45; J.v.163) mention sixteen Bhojaputtā.
Bhoja is modern Berar. Law: Geog. 62.
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