Rājāyatanadhātu
PlaceA shrine, probably in Nāgadīpa, associated with a tree said to have been brought from Jetavana to Sri Lanka, and foretold to be the last resting place of all the Buddha’s relics in the island before their final gathering at the Bodhi tree.
Probably identical with Rājāyatana-cetiya in Nāgadīpa. Aggabodhi II built for it the Unnalomaghara-vihārā (C.xlii.62).
The cetiya was perhaps erected in honour of the Rājāyatana tree, which was brought by Samiddhisumana from Jetavana when he came with the Buddha to Sri Lanka (See Mhv.i.52, 57 f).
It is said (DA.iii.899) that when the Buddha’s religion disappears, all the relics of the Buddha in Sri Lanka will gather together at the Mahācetiya, proceed from there to the Rājāyatana-cetiya in Nāgadīpa, and from there, finally, to the Bodhi tree.
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