Mātuvihāra2
PlaceEin Kloster in Sri Lanka, erbaut von der Mutter von König Gajjabāhukagāmaṇi an der Stelle, wo sie als armes Mädchen einst einem Asketen Nahrung gab und dadurch zur Königin aufstieg.
A vihāra built by the mother of Gajjabāhukagāmaṇi, on the spot where, in a thicket of flowering kadamba trees (Nauclea cordifolia), she had met an ascetic rising from a trance of seven days and had given him some food, which she was taking to her father the brick-worker. As a result of this gift she became the queen of Vaṅkanāsika Tissa. Later she bought the piece of land for one thousand and built there the vihāra. Gajjabāhukagāmaṇi built a stone thūpa connected with it and gave lands to the monks of the vihāra (Mhv.xxxiii.104 ff., 115 ff). The full name of this vihāra seems to have been Rājamātu-vihāra (q.v.) MT. 656.
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