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Badaratittha

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Badara Tittha Vihara (also Badaratittha, Padaratittha[1] ) is the name of an historic Theravada Buddhist vihara in what is now the modern Tamil Nadu state of India.

In the Gandhavamsa

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Badaratittha is known to us from the Gandhavamsa (or Cullagandhavamsa), a 17th-century Pali work by Nandapañña that recounts post-canonical Pali books written in Burma and Ceylon.

The Gandhavamsa states that Badara Tittha Vihara was the dwelling place of Ācariya Dhammapāla, an early Theravadin commentator from Kanchipuram.

References

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  1. ^ Bimala Churn Law (1933). History of Pali Literature. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd.