Srāvastī or Sāvatthī, a city of ancient India, was one of the largest cities during Gautam Buddha’s lifetime. The city was located in the fertile Gangetic plains in the present day’s Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh. Sravasti was the capital of the ancient Indian kingdom (Mahajanapadas) of Kosala, and Gautam Buddha had spent 25 rainy seasons in Sravasti. Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE. Gautama Buddha was a South Asian spiritual leader who lived between approximately 563 BCE and 483 BCE. Born Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit, a name meaning descendant of Gotama whose aims are achieved/who is efficacious in achieving aims, he... The Indo-Gangetic Plain is a rich, fertile and ancient land encompassing most of northern and eastern India and parts of Pakistan. ... Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उतà¥à¤¤à¤° पà¥à¤°à¤¦à¥‡à¤¶, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the fifth largest and the most populous state in India. ... The political process among the ancient Aryans appears to have originally started with semi-nomadic tribal units called Jana (meaning tribe). ... This article needs to be wikified. ...
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Now at that time a number of men were living at Savatthi and all of them were in bondage to the passions, inflamed, glutted, seized and infatuated to excess with lust, falling into sin and impregnated with lust.
At that time a number of men were living at Savatthi, and all of them were in bondage to the passions, inflamed, glutted, seized and infatuated to excess with lust, falling into sin, blinded and impregnated with lust.
On a certain occassion the Blessed One dwelt at Savatthi, in the Jetavana, the garden of Anâthapindika.
Now Savatthi was the place were all the former Buddhas have exhibited their greatest miracle, and remembering this the Buddha proceeeded thither with the intention of confounding his opponents.
The Lord returned from Kapilavatthu to the Jetavana monastery at Savatthi and thence proceeded to Alavi, a place that was haunted by a man-eating ogre who was accustomed to devour the children of the place day after day.
The young wife refused to do honour to the naked Jaina ascetics, and she awakened an eager desire in the heart of her mother-in-law to hear the preaching of the Master; and when he arrived the whole family together with many others were converted.
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