Thanks, these are lovely. Would you like to add these yourself? We can give you editing rights. Or perhaps @Aminah would like to do it.
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I’ve added the photos given for the named places. Perhaps @Nibbanka would care to do the ‘etc.s’.
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Thank you, I would care.
It’s like revisiting a dear place.
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@Nibbanka - I will give you editing rights. Thanks also to @Aminah for adding these photos. They look great!
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what do you think of plotting such locations as Bālaklonakāragāma (a village) [doesn’t have its own entry in the DPPN] and Pācīnavaṁsadāya (a park)?
both are mentioned in MN 128 and according to DPPN were situated between Kosambi and Pārileyya
When the Buddha found that he could not persuade the Kosambi monks to refrain from quarrelling, he left Kosambi alone and unattended, and passing through Balaklonakaragama and Pacinavamsadaya, went to Parileyyaka
The park (Pacinavamsadaya) lays between Balakalonakaragama and the Parileyyakavana
at the absence of the information of their exact or likely location, maybe the relative one will suffice
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As long as we have an approximate location to distinguish it, that’s good enough. I mean, it’s not like people are going to get lost following their GPS of early Buddhism!
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Where might Sedaka be located?
I have no idea. It’s only mentioned, apparently, as being in the land of the Sumbha people, about who we know nothing. And its name varies with Desaka; which just means “a place”. The commentary to SN 47.19 helpfully says that “among the Sumbha people” means evaṃnāmake janapade: “That’s the name of the country”.
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since i don’t have administrator rights over the map, @Aminah would it be too much to ask that these two locations are added?
Not too much to ask of me at all, but it almost killed my computer (I don’t think my graphics card likes the sweltering UK heat nor the poxy fan I have ;))!
Anyway, I added Pācīnavaṁsadāya. Bālakaloṇakāra / Bākalonakārāgama / Bālakalonakārāma was actually already listed as in the town & village section although was originally located as being just on the other side of the Ganges. I converted it to a question mark location (as Pārileyya too is a question mark) and moved it in-line with your suggestion.
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thank you very much, and i sympathize with your machine, mine can relate to suffering from heat
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I wonder if our new SC computer will like the 115 F here in the Mojave-desert …
Thanks @Aminah: I have added the map references to SC dictionary.
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Holy wow. Now you’ll have some great “when I was a young nun” stories.
O, and PCs really hate heat. It’s the number one factor in failure of SSDs, much more so than number of writes.
Actually, I’m cheating … I have a luxury kuti with airco AND wifi!!!
Don’t worry about the SSD - we have a swamp-cooler in the office too.
Well alright, but don’t let that get in the way of a good story.
O, good. I was thinking you’d need a coolgardie safe.
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Yikes! I feel like such a fraud, it was just my British ‘humour’ and only it hit 23C yesterday (which the internet tells me is 73F). This was, nevertheless, enough to almost cripple my computer so I’ll keep an eye out for a luxury kuti!
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I saw no reason not to add Haliddavasana - the margin of error seems well within what has been taken as acceptable and it’s not in an overly cluttered area - in turn I did so.
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Hey @Aminah I just noticed another spot for inclusion. In SN 7.11 we have:
bhagavā magadhesu viharati dakkhiṇāgirismiṃ ekanāḷāyaṃ brāhmaṇagāme
The Buddha was staying in the land of the Magadhans in the Southern Hills in the brahmin village of Ekanāḷa.
Ekanāḷa is missing from our map, but the description is precise enough for us to include it, no? Our map already shows an overlap between Magadha and Dakkhinagiri, so somewhere in there.
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