A Deva who lived in the rājāyatana tree standing at the
gate of Jetavana. He accompanied the Buddha on his second visit to Ceylon. In
his last birth he had been a man in Nāgadīpa, and seeing some Pacceka Buddhas
eating their meal, had provided them with rājāyatana branches with which to
clean their bowls. The rājāyatana-tree was held as parasol over the Buddha's
head on his journey to Ceylon and was left behind in Kalyāni for the Nāgas to
worship. Mhv.i.52ff.

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