Vaḍḍhamāna3
Place未来の王ドゥッタガーマニーが誕生後まもなく首長に任命されたマハーガーマの町であり、邪悪な比丘に見当違いの布施をした猟師の物語の舞台でもある。
A city (nagara) in Mahāgāma, over which Gāmaṇi-Abhaya (afterwards Duṭṭhagāmaṇī) was appointed chief soon after his birth (MT. 443).
A story is related (AA.ii.522) of a hunter of Vaḍḍhamāna who, in the name of his dead kinsman, gave alms to a wicked monk. Three times he did this, until the spirit of the hungry ghost (peta) cried out against it. He then gave alms to a good monk. The ghost benefited by his gift.
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