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Nigrodharama was a Banyan grove near Kapilavastu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha when he visited the city in the first year after his Enlightenment. It belonged to a Sakyan named Nigrodha, who gave it to the Monastic Order. The Nigrodharama is located at the site of the modern Kudan village, about six kilometres south of Tilaurakot, the citadel of Kapilavastu. The precise location of Nigrodharama is at the following coordinates: .
Events at the Nigrodharama
It was at the Nigrodharama that Mahapajapati Gotami first asked permission for women to enter the Order.
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Nigrodharama was a Banyan grove near Kapilavastu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha when he visited the city in the first year after his Enlightenment. It belonged to a Sakyan named Nigrodha, who gave it to the Monastic Order. The Nigrodharama is located at the site of the modern Kudan village, about six kilometres south of Tilaurakot, the citadel of Kapilavastu. The precise location of Nigrodharama is at the following coordinates: .
Events at the Nigrodharama
It was at the Nigrodharama that Mahapajapati Gotami first asked permission for women to enter the Order. This was refused, and from there the Buddha went on to Vesali.
The Buddha stayed at the Nigrodharama on several occasions, and several Vinaya rules are mentioned as being first promulgated there. Various Sakyans came to see the Buddha at the Nigrodharama, among them, Mahanama, Godha, Sarakani, Nandiya and Vappa.
The Buddha himself visited Kaligodha during his residence there. It was during a discussion with Mahanama that the Cula Dukkhakkhandha Sutta was preached. During one of the Buddha's residences in Nigrodharama, the Sakyans invited him to consecrate their new Mote Hall, which he did by preaching there far into the night and then asking Moggallana to continue his discourse. On another occasion the Buddha is mentioned as having spent a period of convalescence at Nigrodharama; he was there also when the quarrel broke out between the Sakyans and the Koliyans regarding the water of the Rohini). It seems to have been the Buddha's custom, when staying at Nigrodharama, sometimes to spend the noonday siesta in the Mahavana (Great Forest) near by.
Among others mentioned as having stayed at Nigrodharama are Anuruddha and Lomasakangiya; a deva called Candana there taught him the Bhaddekaratta Sutta. This Lomasakangiya might be the same as Lomavangisa, who is also mentioned as having lived in Nigrodharama?
Near Nigrodharama was once the site of the dwelling of a hermit (isi) called Kanha. The Buddha, remembering this, once smiled, and, when asked the reason for his smile, related the Kanha Jataka (J.iv.6).
There is a tradition that the Cariya Pitaka and the Buddhavamsa were preached by the Buddha to Sariputta during his first stay in Nigrodharama. It was probably there that Anuruddha's sister built, at his request, an assembly hall of two storeys for the Sangha. Buddhaghosa says that Kala Khemaka, the Sakyan, built a special vihara near Nigrodharama, on one side of the grounds.
Current remains of the Nigrodharama
The remains of the Nigrodharama are currently called Kudan, because it is located close to Kudan village. The remains consist of two (excavated) large stupas, and a third as yet unexcavated one. The third (unexcavated) stupa has a more recent (possibly Islamic) structure built on top of it.
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