Pāvārika2
Personコーサンビーの富豪でゴーシタとククタの友人であり、彼らとともに仏陀をコーサンビーに招き、仏陀とその弟子たちを住まわせるための三つの寺院のうちの一つを建てた人物で、自らの寺院は自身のマンゴー林にあった。
A millionaire (seṭṭhi) of Kosambī, friend of Ghosita and Kukkuṭa. When these three went to Sāvatthi to invite the Buddha to Kosambī, they erected three monasteries to accommodate the Buddha and his monks. The one built by Pāvārika was in his Mango grove (ambavana) and, is referred to as Pāvārikārāma and Pāvārikambavana. DA.i.319; AA.i.234 f; MA.i.541; DhA.i.203 ff.
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