Bodhimaṇḍa untranslated

Bodhimaṇḍa. The name given to the spot under the Bodhi-tree where the Buddha attained Awakening and where he sat for one week after the Awakening (Vin.i.1; but according to Dhp­a.i.71 he spent seven weeks there). A monastery was later erected there called the Bodhimaṇḍa vihāra.

Thirty thousand monks, under Cittagutta, came from there to the foundation ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa (Mhv.xxix.41). It was near here that Buddhaghosa was born (Cv.xxxvii.215), and here Silākāla entered the Saṅgha (Cv.xxxix.47). See also Bodhirukkha.