fzipatana
Ṛṣipatana (in mss. also °paṭana, °paṭṭana, °pattana, °bhavana ), or Ṛṣivadana , nt. or ( LV ) m. , n. of the deer-park at Benares where Buddha preached his first sermon. On the forms of the name, see Senart , Mv i.631 ; Lévi, JA 1912 (vol. 20) , 499 f. ; Pali Isipatana; this form supported by widely-known etym. , Mv i.359.17 ṛṣayo 'tra patitā ṛṣipatanaṃ, similarly LV 19.3 , and in Pali ; vadana acc. to Senart and Lévi Prakritic. Both forms Mvy 4130 °patanam, Tib. lhuṅ ba , fall , and 4131 °vadanam, Tib. smra ba , speak ( Mironov °pattanam for the latter, but he records v.l. °padanam; Tib. supports °vad°). In Mv , mss. usually vary between -vadana and -pattana, Senart always (in these cases) adopting the former: i.43.15 (one ms. °bhavana); 161.4 ; 174.2 ; 307.5 ; 313.16, 19 ; 323.14, 16 (in 16 -pahana instead of -pattana); 330.4 ; 331.3 ; 337.11 ; iii.330.3, 17 . But in i.243.3 Senarts reads bhavanasmiṃ with mss. ( v.l. °nesmiṃ), and (besides i.359.17 above) in ii.138.2 ; iii.323.3 ; 328.20 -patana (only v.l. -pattana in all three); in i.366.8 mss. °paṭṭane, Senart pattano. Divy has only -vadana, 393.21 ; 464.16 ; Av only patana, i.42.9 etc. , passim (in i.237.13 the former Buddha Kāśyapa stays there). SP has -patana, once, 69.12 ; and LV app. only -patana, 18.20 ; 19.3 ; 264.22 ; 402.3 ; 404.17 ; 407.16 ; 413.1 ; 421.16 ( v.l. -paṭana 18.20 ; 19.3 ); in 407.16 nom. sg. °no (the only form in LV unambiguous as to gender).