Kukkuṭārāma untranslated

Kukkuṭārāma 01. A monastery in Kosambī, built by the seṭṭhi Kukkuṭa (q.v.). DN­a.i.318, etc.

Kukkuṭārāma 02. A pleasaunce in Pāṭaliputta. It was evidently the residence of monks from very early times, probably, for some time, of the Buddha himself. The Mahā Vagga (Vin.i.300) mentions the names of several Theras who lived there: Nilavāsi, Sāṇavāsi, Gopaka, Bhagu, Phalikasandana. The Saṁyuttanikāya (SN.v.15f; 171f) records several discussions which took place there between Ānanda and Bhadda. It may have been a favourite resort of Ānanda, for we find the householder Dasama of Aṭṭhakanagara going there to enquire as to his whereabouts (AN.v.342; MN.i.349). It was also (probably at a later date) the residence of Nārada who converted King Muṇḍa (AN.iii.57f), and afterwards of Soṇaka, the upajjhāya of Siggava, and of Caṇḍavajji, the teacher of Moggaliputtatissa (Mhv.v.122). Buddhaghosa mentions (MN­a.ii.571; AN­a.ii.866) that the Kukkuṭārāma was made by Kukkuṭa seṭṭhi, but gives no further particulars. Here there is probably some confusion with the ārāma of the same name at Kosambī. Xuanzang (Beal-Xuan: op.cit.ii, 95) says that the Kukkuṭārāma was to the southeast of the old city of Pāṭaliputta and was built by Asoka when he first became a convert to the Buddha’s religion. “It was a sort of first-fruit and a pattern of majestic construction.” Only the foundation of the building was left at the time of Xuanzang’s visit. It is probable that this account refers to the Asokārāma which Asoka built as the first of his Buddhist structures, and that the Asokārāma was constructed on the site of the old Kukkuṭārāma. It is significant that the Pāli books, in recording Asoka’s doings, make no mention of a Kukkuṭārāma existing in his time, though the Sanskrit texts, the Divyāvadāna, for instance, makes frequent reference to it (e.g., pp.381f, 430ff; see also Smith: Asoka, 183, 193f). If the conjecture made above, namely that the Asokārāma replaced the Kukkuṭārāma, be correct, it may have been that the place was known by both names in Asoka’s time.

Kukkuṭārāma 03. See Kukkuṭagiripariveṇa.