Udena Cetiya untranslated

Udena Cetiya. A shrine of pre-Buddhistic worship, to the east of Vesālī.

It is mentioned with other shrines at Vesālī – Gotamaka, Sārandada, Sattamba, Cāpāla and Bahuputta – all of which are described as beautiful spots (DN.ii.102; SN.v.260; AN.iv.309; see also DN.iii.9).

Rhys Davids conjectures that these were probably trees or barrows (Dial.ii.110, n.1, but see Law: Geography of Early Buddhism. 74ff).

The Dhammapada Commentary (Dhp-a.iii.246) describes the Udena and the Gotamaka shrines as “rukkhacetiyas” to which men pay homage in order to have their wishes fulfilled.

The Dīgha Commentary (ii.554; AN­a.ii.784; Ud­a.323) says that in the Buddha’s time a vihāra had been erected on the spot where this shrine stood and that this vihāra had previously been dedicated to the Yakkha Udena.