A monastery erected by Parakkamabāhu I in the suburb of Vijita in Pulatthipura. It consisted of three image houses, each three storeys high, a thūpa, a cloister, a two-storeyed pāsāda, four gateways, four long pāsādas, eight small ones, one refectory, one discourse hall, seven fire-hoses and twelve privies.³⁷

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¹³ Vin.ii.74. The Buddha was at Veḷuvana when Dabba also “decided” to die. He went there to take leave of the Buddha, Ud.viii.9. (I don’t think Arahants “decide” when they will die — though some may know beforehand when their life-span will end. The Arahants are free from attachment to life and aversion to death, so “deciding” to die prematurely is not something they would do. Those few like Godhika who committed suicide made the decision to end their life prematurely before attaining Arahantship. The Buddha could have extended his life-span by using his powers if he had been asked to, but since no one did, he announced his forthcoming death in three months’ time. ed.)

¹⁴ Vin.ii.200.

¹⁵ BuA.3; while the Buddha was at Veḷuvana that Devadatta attempted to kill him by causing Nāḷāgiri to be let loose against him (J.v.335).

¹⁶ Vin.ii.289 f. ¹⁷ S.ii.187. ¹⁸ S.v.181.

¹⁹ After his visit to Dhammadinnā, who taught him the Cūḷavedalla Sutta.

²⁰ Sāriputta is mentioned as having held discussions there with, among others, Candikāputta and Lāḷudāyī. A discourse taught by Mahā-Kassapa to the monks at Veḷuvana is given at A.v.161 ff; for other suttas taught by the Buddha, see also S.i.231; ii.32, 183, 242, 254; iv.20; v.446; Ud.iv.9.

²¹ M.iii.7 ff. ²² E.g., S.i.106 f. ²³ SA.i.219. ²⁴ J.v.127. ²⁵ SNA.ii.419; Sp.iii.576.

²⁶ Mhv.v.115 f, 122; Dpv.iv.39. ²⁷ Mhv.xxx.80. ²⁸ MA.ii.635. ²⁹ MA.ii.932.

³⁰ MA.ii.854. ³¹ Beal, op.cit., ii.159. ³² A.v.54 f. ³³ A.iii.247, 339: iv.84.

³⁴ Cv.xlii.43. ³⁵ Cv.xliv.29; Cv.Trs.i.77, n.2. ³⁶ Cv.xliv.99.

³⁷ Cv.lxxiii.152, lxxviii.87 f; see also Cv.Trs.ii.113, n.1

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