Veḷudvāra
PersonEin Brahmanendorf der Kosaler, das angeblich nach einem Bambusdickicht an seinem Eingang benannt ist, wo der Buddha einst weilte und die Veḷudvāreyya-Sutta lehrte.
A brahmin village of the Kosalans where the Buddha once stayed and taught the Veḷudvāreyya Sutta (S.v.352).
Buddhaghosa says (SA.iii.217) that the place was so called owing to the tradition of the presence of a bamboo thicket at the entrance to the village.
SN 55.7
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