Sobhana2
PersonA householder whose park was bought by the layman who would become Ānanda for a vast sum, so that a monastery could be built there for the Buddha Padumuttara.
A householder (kuṭumbika). Ānanda, born as Sumana, bought his park (also called Sobhana) for a sum of one hundred thousand and built in it a vihāra for Padumuttara Buddha. ThagA.ii.123; DA.ii.490; SA.ii.69 f; AA.i.162, etc.
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