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  • Kantaka Sutta

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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