Year 10 after the Awakening

This year the Buddha is forty-four. After leaving Kosambī the Buddha wanders alone, visiting first his disciple Bhagu, living by himself in a village, and then Anuruddha and two companions living in harmony in the Eastern Bamboo Park; he then goes to the protected grove at Pārileyyaka and keeps the rains retreat beneath a great sāla tree (a tall tree), attended by an elephant that had left its herd. The later Vinaya sub-commentary also places in the tenth year after the Buddha's awakening the rule that “one of fewer than ten years' standing since ordination may not act as preceptor”.