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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Angulimala Stupa, Pakki Kuti


Angulimala Stupas are also known as Pakki Kuti, Any one can easly reach to Pakki Kuti by Sobhnath Darwaza, by a linked road with Shobhnath Temple to Pakki Kuti. Where Pakki Kuti is one of the two largest mound inside, the other being Kachch Kuti. The modern name Pakki Kuti is supposed to be derived from the fact that a Muslim Mendicant had once made the mound his residence. Kunningham propossed to identify it with the remains of the stupa of Angulimala seen by the chinese pilgrims.


Story of Angulimal Daku:

Here the cave of Angulimala Dakoo, is very famous site and it is placed just half K.M far from the main road of Shravasti .The Angulimala Dakoo was very much affected by Lord Gautam Budha and their preaches.

Angulimala, whose name means "finger garland", he was a wicked man who harassed the city and country, because he killing the people and cutting a finger of each person, and killed in order to make a garland for the presentation to his guru as Guru Dakshina.

He was about to kill his own mother in order to make up the required number of fingers when the lord Budha intervened and then the Angulimala Dakoo was very much affected by Lord Gautam Budha and their preaches.





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