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The mango-tree, at the gate of Sāvatthi,
under which the Buddha performed the
Yamaka-pātihāriya. The king's gardener, Ganda, 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
Ananda 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. J. iv.264f; J. i.88; DhA.iii.206ff; Mil.349.

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