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When the Buddha was staying at the
Kutāgārasālā in Vesāli, the Licchavis, with their retinues, came to visit him in
large numbers and created a great uproar. Some of the Buddha's eminent disciples
who were with the Buddha, such as Cāla, Upacāla, Kakkata, Kalimbha, Nikata and
Katissaha, therefore, retired into various woodland solitudes, such as
Gosingasālāvana, which were close by. The Buddha praised them, saying that noise
was an obstruction to meditation, and preached this sutta on the ten kinds of
obstruction (A.v.133-5).

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