MallikÄrÄma
A pleasance in SÄvatthi belonging to Queen MallikÄ.
It is described as āSamayappavÄdakatindukÄcÄ«ra ā (v.l. tindukÄkhÄ«ra)- ekasalaka.ā D.i.178; M.ii.22, etc.; Sp.i.107, etc.
The Commentary (MA.ii.710; cf. DA.ii.365) says it was called SamyappavÄdaka because teachers holding various views used to gather there and discourse on their doctrines. It was surrounded by tindukakhÄ«ra (timbaru) trees, hence tindukÄcÄ«ra (sic); at first it possessed only one hall, but later many were erected through the good fortune of Poį¹į¹hapÄda ā hence its epithet EkasÄlÄka.
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