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Sravasti
 Sravasti or Savatthi, a city of ancient India, was one of the six largest cities in India during Gautama Buddha’s lifetime. The city was located in the fertile Gangetic plains in the present day’s Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh. Jetavana monastery was a famous monastery close to Savatthi.
Sravasti, capital of an ancient kingdom by the same name, is sacred to the Buddhists because it was here that Lord Buddha confounded his critics with a million fold manifestation of himself, seated on a thousand-petalled lotus, as fire and water emanated from his body.
Sravasti is the place where the Twin Miracle (Pali: Yamaka Patihara) took place. For the purpose of silencing certain believers of other faith, who claimed that the Buddha was incapable of performing supernatural miracles, Buddha made a demonstration of his supernatural powers at this place. The Buddhist commentarial tradition says that Savatthi is the scene of each Buddha's Yamaka pátiháriya; Gotama Buddha performed this miracle under the Gandamba tree.
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