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