1. Pabbata Sutta. The sāla trees on the Himālaya grow in branch, leaf and flower, in bark and shoots, in softwood and pith; similarly the folk in a devout man's house grow in faith, virtue and wisdom. A.i.152.

2. Pabbata Sutta. An aeon is longer than the time taken by a man to waste away a mountain one league high, one long, and one wide, by stroking it once in every hundred years with a Kāsī cloth. S.ii.181.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from