A pleasance in Sávatthi belonging to Queen Malliká.

It is described as "Samayappavádakatindukácíra -  (v.l. tindukákhíra)- ekasalaka." D.i.178; M.ii.22, etc.; Sp.i.107, etc.

The Commentary (MA.ii.710; cf. DA.ii.365) says it was called Samyappavádaka because teachers holding various views used to gather there and discourse on their doctrines. It was surrounded by tindukakhíra (timbaru) trees, hence tindukácíra (sic); at first it possessed only one hall, but later many were erected through the good fortune of Potthapáda -  hence its epithet Ekasáláka.


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