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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Lovely, added!
In fact, Ekanāḷā was given under the list “Not added but easily to conceivably plottable” in post 4 of this thread; I’m sure a number more of those locations could happily be added - although just at the minute I don’t have the time to re-run through the list.
Thanks so much.
We can keep adding things at our leisure, on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
what’s left to do is make it display at https://suttacentral.net/define/ekanāḷā
or does it simply wait for the next site update?
Thanks for reminding me. It’s done.
Another little detail. The DPPN recognizes a place called ṭankitama. This is, however, a mistake, the place name is ṭaṅkita-mañca, i.e. “cut-stone bed”. We would be better off eliminating the mistake and giving only ṭaṅkitamañca, perhaps with variant taṅkitamañca.
In addition, the place is said to be near Gaya, so we can probably locate it on the map.
Yep.
Edit: Done
I’ve also added in the backend so the map is there now:
https://suttacentral.net/define/ṭaṅkitamañca
So, finally it started raining and it is Saturday here in the UK, and in California it is even afternoon!
First on the list: Ambatittha / Ambatitthā / Ambatiṭṭha. I would find it acceptable to plot both it and Bhaddavatika at somewhere around 25.29933, 80.23864.
Key reference: Pacittiya 51 Analysis
Text: “On one ocasion the Lord was touring for alms in the Cetiya country, set out for Bhaddavatikā. [Then everyone said don’t go to Ambatittha] Then the lord, touring for alms, in the course of time arrived at Bhaddavatikā. The lord stayed there at Bhaddavatika. [The Ven. Sāgata whent to and returned from Ambatittha] Then the lord, having stayed at Bhaddavatikā for as long as he found suitable, departed on an alms-tour to Kosambī. … Then the lord, touring for alms, in the course of time arrived at Kosambī.”
Impression: Ambatittha is very close to / on the outskirts of Bhaddavatikā. Contrary to the DPPN, I’m not convinced that either of these locations are in Cetiya (the implication is that the Buddha left Cetiya to head for Bhaddavatika), but rather lie somewhere in the middle of the eastern boarder of Cetiya and Kosambi.
Intrigued to know if any rough, standard distance could be extracted from the phrase “touring for alms, in the course of time arrived at” a search was performed on, “Atha kho bhagavā anupubbena cārikaṃ caramāno yena” yielding 6 results (setting pc51 aside):
SN 22.81:
Kosambi -> Parileyyaka (? location) = 25km
Kd 1:
Uruvelā -> Benares = 215km
Benares -> Uruvelā = 215km
Gayā -> Rājagaha = 50km
Kd 6:
Rājagaha -> Sāvatthī = 435km
Benares -> Andhakavinda = ?
Andhakavinda -> Rājagaha = ?
Rājagaha -> Pāṭaligāma = 80km
Vesālī -> Bhaddiya = 170km
Bhaddiya -> Āpaṇa = 60km
Āpaṇa -> Kusinārā = 350km
Kd 8:
Rājagaha -> Vesālī = 115km
Kd 15:
Rājagaha -> Vesālī = 115km
Kd 16:
Vesālī -> Sāvatthī = 350km
Sāvatthī -> Kiṭāgiri (? location) = 185km
Clearly no standard length can be taken from this, but despite, no-doubt, giving a highly distorted view (as a matter of curiosity), the average distance is 182km. At the very least I reckon 25.29933, 80.23864 would sit happily within the kinds of distances the phrase has been used in connection with.
As a side note: is white spirits really the would-be tipple of choice of monastics?!
Whatchya reckon?
That seems fine. Just a note that “touring for alms” is not an accurate translation. This is not the stock phrase for a monastic walking for alms in a village. Rather it is a general term to mean “walking on tour, going on a journey”.
When you are done, please post it here with an @Vimala tag. For some reason I don’t get notifications on this topic.
could Ambatittha be a name of a larger territorial division which included Bhaddavatika? such possibility can be construed from the translation
Seems perfectly reasonable to me [edit: if you switched Bhaddavatikā and Ambatittha around] , whatever the case they’re both just getting question marks on the map.
Dear Ayya @Vimala, some additions:
note: as per the above, Bhaddavatikā & Ambatittha have been placed outside of Cetiya contrary to the DPPN description
Ambasaṇḍā
Uttara / Uttaraka
Kakkarapatta
Kaṇṇakujja / Kaṇṇagocchaka / Kaṇṇagotta
Kapotakandara
Kassapakārāma / Kassapārāma
Khomadussa
Gotamatittha
Gomatakakandarā / Gomatakandarā / Gomatakaṇḍarā
I’m not entirely sure if that is correct because both are also mentioned in the description of Cetiya. So either these are placed wrong or the borders of Cetiya are wrong. @Sujato, can you have a look please?