Pāli Dictionary

Chaddanta

Place

A forest in the Himavā containing Lake Mandākinī, where the elder Aññāta-Koṇḍañña lived in retirement for twelve years, attended by elephants.

A forest in Himavā. In the forest was the Mandākinī Lake, on the banks of which Aññāta-Koṇḍañña Thera lived in retirement for twelve years, waited upon by eight thousand elephants who had once ministered to Pacceka Buddhas. SA.i.217; ThagA.ii.3, 7; AA.i.84.

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