A park in Anurādhapura between the Mahāmeghavana and the southern wall of the city. Mahinda taught there, to the assembled populace, the Bālapaṇḍita Sutta, the day after his arrival in Anurādhapura. Later, on successive days, he taught the Āsīvisopama, the Anamatagga, the Khajjanīya, the Gomayapiṇḍa and the Dhammacakkappavattana Suttas. On the occasions of the teaching of these various suttas, thousands of people attained to various fruits of the Path, and, because the park was the first centre from which Mahinda radiated a knowledge of the Buddha’s teaching’ it came to be called the Jotivana, by which name it was known later. Mhv.xv.1, 4, 176, 178, 186, 195, 197, 199, 202; Dpv.xiii.11, 12, 14, 15; xiv.12, 17, 44, 48; Sp.i.80-82.