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Updated: June 9, 2025
Buddha then removed, and dwelt in a small vihara on the south side of the other, a different place from that containing the image, and twenty paces distant from it. The Jetavana vihâra was originally of seven stories.
Sometimes they cut the tree down, sometimes they plucked it up, and cast it to a distance, but it grew again on the same spot as at first. Here also is the place where the four Buddhas walked and sat, and at which a tope was built that is still existing. ~The Jetavana Vihâra Legends of Buddha~
It was in this way that it got its name, and most of the Jetavana monks, after they had taken their midday meal, went to the grove, and sat there in meditation. Six or seven le north-east from the Jetavana, mother Vaisakha built another vihara, to which she invited Buddha and his monks, and which is still existing.
It has been handed down, that, near the time when these things occurred, around the Jetavana vihara there were ninety-eight monasteries, in all of which there were monks residing, excepting only in one place which was vacant. Each had its multitude of followers, and they all beg their food: only they do not carry the alms-bowl.
On the left and right of the building the ponds of water clear and pure, the thickets of trees always luxuriant, and the numerous flowers of various hues, constituted a lovely scene, the whole forming what is called the Jetavana vihâra.
All of them tried, but only one succeeded. That one was found to be a man!! Thus was the queen satisfied, and the faithful old vizier saved. Afterwards, as soon as could be, the vizier's son married the old farmer's daughter; and a most happy marriage it was. This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had ceased striving after righteousness.
On the left and right of the building the ponds of water clear and pure, the thickets of trees always luxuriant, and the numerous flowers of various hues, constituted a lovely scene, the whole forming what is called the Jetavana vihara. When Buddha on his return entered the vihara, Buddha said to it, "Return to your seat.
After I have attained to pari-nirvana, you will serve as a pattern to the four classes of my disciples," and on this the image returned to its seat. The Jetavana vihara was originally of seven storeys.
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