Pāli Dictionary

Mekhala

Place

スマナ仏の生誕地であり最初の説法の地。マンガラ仏が主要弟子たちを教化し、レーヴァタ仏がかつて大集会に説法し、後にウッガタ王がソービタ仏のために僧院を建てた場所でもある

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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