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Makutabandhana

Buddhaghosa explains that the Makutabandhana was a Hall in which the Malla chiefs put on their ornaments on festival days. It was called a cetiya because it was decorated (cittakatthena pan'esa cetiyaṃ).

DA.ii.596; see also Dvy. 201. Hiouen Thsang’s description (Beal, op. cit., ii.37) of the stūpa erected at what is evidently Makutabandhana suggests a different explanation. It was there that the Mallas laid aside their diamond maces (? makuta) and fell prostrate on the ground with grief at the Buddha’s death.

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera