A hermitage (senásana) where lived Rohana Nágasena's teacher, by whom he was ordained, and Assagutta, with whom he spent a vassa in order to train himself for debate. Mil. 10, 12, 14; from the context it would appear as though these two residences were not identical, but were far away from each other. Was Vattaniyasenásana rather a generic than a proper name?
Assagutta, who ordained the Ajívaka Janasána (q.v.), is also said to have been "Vattaniyasenásane." (MT. 192). At the ceremony of the Mahá Thúpa foundation, the Thera Uttara came from "Vattaniyasenásana" in Viñjhátaví with sixty thousand others (Mhv.xxix.40). Both the Visuddhimagga and the Atthasáliní (Vsm.430; DhSA.419) mention a Thera named Assagutta, evidently a visitor, who, seeing the monks at Vattaniyasenásana eating dry food, resolved "Every day before meals may the pool of water take on the taste of milk curds." From that day the pool water tasted of curds before the meal and became natural water again after the meal.