Mañjerika
The name of the NÄga kingdom (NÄgabhavana).
It is five hundred leagues in extent and is the residence of MahÄkÄla, the NÄga king (J.i.72; J.vi.264; BuA.239).
When the urn containing the Buddha’s relics, deposited in RÄmagÄma, was washed away, it was taken to the Mañjerika NÄgabhavana, and remained there till taken by Sonuttara to be enshrined in the MahÄ ThÅ«pa. Mhv.xxxi.27; see also J.R.A.S. 1885, p. 220.
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