Mañjerika
Personラーマガーマから来た仏陀の遺骨の壺が、ソーヌッタラによって取り出されマハー・トゥーパに納められるまで安置されていた、龍王マハーカーラの住処である広大な龍族の王国。
The name of the Nāga kingdom (Nāgabhavana).
It is five hundred leagues in extent and is the residence of Mahākāḷa, the Nāga king (J.i.72; J.vi.264; BuA.239).
When the urn containing the Buddha’s relics, deposited in Rāmagāma, was washed away, it was taken to the Mañjerika Nāgabhavana, and remained there until taken by Soṇuttara to be enshrined in the Mahā Thūpa. Mhv.xxxi.27; see also J.R.A.S. 1885, p.220.
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