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Cittalatāvana

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A five-hundred-league pleasance in Tāvatiṃsa heaven that came into being through the merit of Māgha’s wife Cittā, named for its many-coloured flowering creepers, including the rare Āsāvatī vine that blooms only once every thousand years.

A pleasance, five hundred leagues in extent, in Tāvatiṃsa. It came into being through the good deeds performed by Māgha’s wife, Cittā (DhA.i.271-5; J.i.202). It is said (VvA.94) that the place was so called not only because of its association with Cittā, but also because there grew in it various creepers bearing many coloured flowers. In the pleasance is born the Āsāvatī creeper which blossoms only once in a thousand years. ThagA.i.365; J.iii.250.

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