Difference between revisions of "Kalandakanivāpa"
(Created page with " Kalandakanivāpa; A woodland in Veluvana. Here food (nivāpa) was regularly placed for the squirrels. It is said that once a certain raja went there for ...") |
|||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
− | + | [[File:1gsdG.JPG|thumb|250px|]] | |
+ | <poem> | ||
[[Kalandakanivāpa]]; A woodland in [[Veluvana]]. | [[Kalandakanivāpa]]; A woodland in [[Veluvana]]. | ||
Line 7: | Line 8: | ||
[[Kalandakanivāpa]] was evidently a favourite resort of the [[Buddha]] and his [[monks]]. | [[Kalandakanivāpa]] was evidently a favourite resort of the [[Buddha]] and his [[monks]]. | ||
+ | </poem> | ||
+ | {{R}} | ||
+ | [http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/ka/kalandakanivaapa.htm www.palikanon.com] | ||
+ | [[Category:Pāli Canon]] |
Revision as of 06:33, 25 August 2014
Kalandakanivāpa; A woodland in Veluvana.
Here food (nivāpa) was regularly placed for the squirrels. It is said that once a certain raja went there for a picnic and, having over-drunk, fell asleep. His retinue, seeing him sleeping, wandered away, looking for flowers and fruits. A snake, attracted by the smell of liquor, approached the king from a neighbouring tree-trunk, and would have bitten him had not a tree-sprite, assuming the form of a squirrel, awakened him by her chirping. In gratitude the rājā gave orders that thenceforth the squirrels in that locality should be fed regularly. UdA.60; SnA.ii.419.
According to some, it was the gift of a merchant named Kalandaka (Beal: Romantic Legend, p.315); Tibetan sources identify the rājā with Bimbisāra and say that the snake was a reincarnation of the owner whose land the king had confiscated. According to these same sources the name is Kalantaka and is described as the name of a bird (Rockhill: op. cit., p.43).
Kalandakanivāpa was evidently a favourite resort of the Buddha and his monks.