Rājāyatana
PersonThe tree beneath which the Buddha, in the eighth week after his enlightenment, received an offering of rice cakes and honey from the merchants Tapassu and Bhallika, on whose site a stupa was later built.
The name of a tree, at the foot of which the Buddha received a gift of wheat and honey from the merchants Tapassu and Bhallika in the eighth week after the Enlightenment (Vin.i.3 f; J.i.80; BuA.p.9.).
A thūpa was later erected on the site of the tree. Beal, op.cit., 129.
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