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Year 24 after the Awakening
The Buddha at 58
In Year 24 after the Awakening the Buddha is fifty-eight; the place of the , according to the later commentaries, is the same as in the preceding years, Sāvatthī. Again there are no events with an explicit year; the discourses given at Sāvatthī, having no year in the text itself, are gathered under “Texts of the Sāvatthī Years”. The items listed below are discourses and rules that may fall in this year, estimated from such conditions as the ages of people involved and the reigns of kings.
The Rains Retreat
According to the later commentaries, in his later years the Buddha makes the Jetavana and the Eastern Park at Sāvatthī his fixed places for the rains retreat, and this year is spent there too; one reading of the Chinese instead places this year's retreat in the , the third of four successive retreats there.
