Vol. I, No. 4.] Anuruddha Thera. 101 
[N. 8.] 
Anuruddha to bring from there some learned Buddhist monks and 
elders of the church. I have reasons to believe that the Ramaiiia! 
country was identical with the kingdom of the Pallavas that lay in 
the Coromandel coast, and “the King of Anuruddha” was the 
Pallava King in whoseterritory A ddl born and from who 
a Thera, who flourished in Kaficipura early in the 12th Century 
A.D., was by no means the last Buddhist Pali scholar of that city. 
iar 
In Burmese books we find, however, that Anaurata or Anuruddha was 
the 42nd (or 44th) King of Pagan and Ramaiiia or Ramagnia is the ysgol 
round Thaton. Vide Bigandet’s Legend of Gaudama, Vol. II, pp. 146-1 
(3rd edition). Rev. T. Foulkes observes :—“ Sir Emerson Tennen —— 
that this Kingdom of Aramana [Ramafifia] may be a part of the Indo-Chinese 
Peni ; and Turnour had already, 
Phono probably between Arracan and anes bat the passiges in the 
: ; i Chola 
the only part of that coast which remains is that which lies between : 
d Kalinga, namely, the old dominions of the Pallavas.” The Indian Anti- 
quary, Vol. XVIT (1888), page 126. 
