Vattaniya untranslated

Vattaniya. A hermitage (senāsana) where lived Rohaṇa Nāgasena’s teacher, by whom he was ordained, and Assagutta, with whom he spent a vassa in order to train himself for debate. Mil. 10, 12, 14; from the context it would appear as though these two residences were not identical, but were far away from each other. Was Vattaniya senāsana rather a generic than a proper name?

Assagutta, who ordained the Ājīvaka Janasāna (q.v.), is also said to have been “Vattaniyasenāsane.” (Mhv­ṭ. 192). At the ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa foundation, the Thera Uttara came from “Vattaniya senāsana” in Viñjhāṭavī with sixty thousand others (Mhv.xxix.40). Both the Visuddhimagga and the Atthasālinī (Vsm.430; Dhs-a.419) mention a Thera named Assagutta, evidently a visitor, who, seeing the monks at Vattaniya senāsana eating dry food, resolved “Every day before meals may the pool of water take on the taste of milk curds.” From that day the pool water tasted of curds before the meal and became natural water again after the meal.