Pāli Dictionary

Mekhala

Place

Der Geburtsort des Buddha Sumana und Ort seiner ersten Lehrrede, auch der Ort, an dem Buddha Maṅgala seine Hauptschüler bekehrte, Buddha Revata einst eine große Versammlung lehrte und König Uggata später ein Kloster für Buddha Sobhita errichtete

The city of birth of Sumana Buddha and the scene of his first discourse to Saraṇa and Bhāvitatta (Bu.v.21; BuA.125 f). It was there that Maṅgala Buddha converted his chief disciples, Sudeva and Dhammasena (BuA.120). Revata Buddha once taught there to an assembly of ten billion people (BuA.134), while later, King Uggata built, for Sobhita Buddha, the Dhammaganārāma in the same city (BuA.139).

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