35a: List of Rains Retreats – 1179
works entitled the Light on the All-Seeing One (
Samanta-cakkhu-dīpanī
) (Vol II,
p. 374).
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The great friend of sentient beings of the three worlds spent two months or 60
days at the place of his Awakening, and then observed Rains Retreats in the
places shown below:
1. First Rains Retreat (
Vassa
) at Bārāṇasī.
2-4. Veḷuvana monastery, Rājagaha.
5. Great Wood monastery, donated by the Licchavī princes of Vesālī.
6. Sixth at Mount Makula.
7. Seventh in Tāvatiṁsa.
8. Eighth in the Bhagga country.
9. Ninth at Ghositārāma monastery near Kosambī.
10. Tenth in the Pāḷileyyaka Forest of the elephant King Pāḷileyyaka.
11. Eleventh in the Brahmin village of Nāḷa.
12. Twelfth at Verañjā.
13. Thirteenth at Cāliya Mountain.
14. Fourteenth at Jetavana monastery, Sāvatthī.
15. Fifteenth at Nigrodha monastery of Kapilavatthu.
16. Sixteenth at Āḷavī.
17. Seventeenth at Veḷuvana monastery, Rājagaha.
18-19. Eighteenth and nineenth at Cāliya Mountain monastery.
20. Twentieth back at Rājagaha.
21-44. Thus the Buddha was on the move from place to place for the duration
of the first 20 years, which is the first period after Awakening, as
regards the second period, from the 21
st
to the 44
th
year, he spent 24
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The author reproduced here the said verse of the Monywe Zetawun Saydaw. We have
provided here only an excerpt thereof in prose.