Gaṇḍamba untranslated

Gaṇḍamba. The mango-tree, at the gate of Sāvatthī, under which the Buddha performed the Yamakapāṭihāriya (q.v.). The king’s gardener, Gaṇḍa, while on his way to the palace to give the king a ripe mango-fruit from the palace gardens, saw the Buddha going on his alms-rounds and offered him the mango. The Buddha ate it immediately, and gave the seed to Ānanda to be planted by the gardener at the city-gate. A tree of one hundred cubits sprouted forth at once, covered with fruit and flowers. At the foot of this tree Vissakamma, by the order of Sakka, built a pavilion of the seven kinds of precious things. Ja.iv.264f; Ja.i.88; Dhp­a.iii.206ff; Mil.349.