When the Buddha was staying at the Kutágárasálá in Vesáli, the Licchavis, with their retinues, came to visit him in large numbers and created a great uproar. Some of the Buddha's eminent disciples who were with the Buddha, such as Cála, Upacála, Kakkata, Kalimbha, Nikata and Katissaha, therefore, retired into various woodland solitudes, such as Gosingasálávana, which were close by. The Buddha praised them, saying that noise was an obstruction to meditation, and preached this sutta on the ten kinds of obstruction (A.v.133-5).