Visits Rishipattana at Sarnath
· Deer Park archaeological complex, Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported · file In the Ashokavadana pilgrimage narrative, Upagupta led Ashoka to Rishipattana, the ancient name associated with Sarnath and the Buddha's first sermon. The event comes from a later Buddhist legend. The date is conventionally associated with the twentieth-regnal-year pilgrimage and is not independently fixed.
