Migaramatupasada, Migāramātupāsāda: 1 definition

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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

The name given to the monastery erected by Visakha Migaramata in the Pubbarama, to the east of Savatthi. It is said (DhA.i.410ff.; SNA.ii.502; UdA.158; DA.iii.860; SA.i.116, etc.) that, one day, when Visakha had gone to the monastery to hear the Dhamma and afterwards attend on the sick monks and novices, she left in the preaching hall her Mahalatapasadhana and her servant girl forgot to remove it (this incident is referred to at Vin.iv.161f., as the cause of the institution of a Vinaya rule).

Later, on going to fetch it, she found that Ananda had put it away, and Visakha, being told of this, decided not to wear it again. She had it valued by goldsmiths, who declared that it was worth nine crores and one hundred thousand. She had the ornament put in a cart and sent round for sale. But there was none in Savatthi rich enough to buy it, and Visakha herself bought it back. With the money thus obtained she built the Migaramatupasada at the Buddhas suggestion. The site for the pasada on the Pubbarama cost nine crores, the buildings costing another nine. While the building was being erected, the Buddha went on one of his journeys and, at Visakhas request; Moggallana was left to supervise the work with five hundred other monks. Moggallana made use of his iddhi powers in order to expedite and facilitate the work. The building had two floors with five hundred rooms in each, the whole structure being surmounted by a pinnacle of solid gold, capable of holding sixty water pots. The work was completed in nine months, and the celebration of its dedication was held on the Buddhas return. These celebrations lasted for four months and cost a further nine crores. On the last day, Visakha gave gifts of cloth to the monks, each novice receiving robes worth one thousand. The building was so richly equipped that one of Visakhas friends, wishing to spread a small carpet, worth one hundred thousand, wandered all over the building, but could find no place of which it was worthy. Ananda found her weeping in disappointment, and suggested that it should be spread between the foot of the stairs and the spot where the monks washed their feet.

During the last twenty years of his life, when the Buddha was living at Savatthi, he divided his time between the Anathapindikarama at Jetavana and the Migaramatupasada, spending the day in one place and the night in the other and vice versa (SNA.i.336).

It is, therefore, to be expected that numerous suttas were preached there; chief among these were the Agganna, the Utthana, the Ariyapariyesana, and the Pasadakampana. See also S.i.77, 190 (= Ud.vi.2); iii.100; v. 216, 222f.; A.i.193f.; ii.183f.; iii.344f.; (cp Thag.vss.689 704); iv. 204f., 255, 265, 269; Ud.ii.9; DhA.iv.142f.; iv.176.

It was at Migaramatupasada that the Vighasa Jataka was preached,

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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