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| location = Rajgir, Bihar| area = | built = | architect = | architecture = | governing_body = Archeological Survey of India}}Saptparni Cave, also referred to as Sapta parni guha (Saraiki) or sattapaṇṇi guhā (Pali), literally Seven-leaves-cave (cognate with sapta, sept), is a Buddhist cave site about {{convert|2|km}} southwest from Rajgir, Bihar, India.BOOK, Jules Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, The Buddha and His Religion,archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174994, 1914, Trübner, 376–377, It is embedded in a hill. The Saptaparni Cave is important in the Buddhist tradition, because many believe it to be the site in which Buddha spent some time before his death,Digha Nikaya 16, Maha-Parinibbana Sutta, Last Days of the Buddha, Buddhist Publication Society and where the first Buddhist council was held after Buddha died (paranirvana).BOOK, Paul Gwynne, World Religions in Practice: A Comparative Introduction,books.google.com/books?id=sU8nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51, 30 May 2017, Wiley, 978-1-118-97228-1, 51–52, BOOK, Kailash Chand Jain, Lord MahāvÄ«ra and His Times,books.google.com/books?id=8-TxcO9dfrcC&pg=PA66, 1991, Motilal Banarsidass, 978-81-208-0805-8, 66, JOURNAL, Chakrabartia, Dilip K, Rājagriha: An early historic site in East India, World Archaeology, 1976, 7, 3, 261–268, 10.1080/00438243.1976.9979639, It is here that a council of few hundred monks decided to appoint Ananda, Buddha’s cousin, and Upali, who had accompanied the Buddha when he gave sermons in north India, to compose Buddha’s teachings for the future generations. This was of special importance because the Buddha never wrote down his teachings. After the meeting in Saptaparni Cave, Ananda created an oral tradition of Buddha’s teaching from his memory, prefacing it with “Thus have I heard on one occasion”. Upali is credited with reciting the Vinaya (discipline), or “rules for the Bhikshus”. This tradition is found in Vinaya Pitaka II.284 through II.287 and Digha Nikaya II.154.BOOK, Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices,books.google.com/books?id=u0sg9LV_rEgC, 2013, Cambridge University Press, 978-0-521-85942-4, 88–89, File:Saptaparni cave.jpg|thumb|left|(File:Saptaparani caves.jpg|alt=rajgir sapatparani|thumb|saptaparani caves rajgir)Saptaparni cave entrance.]]

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