612 A few Gleanings in Buddhism, [Dec. 



1st. To Rajak'haha (or Rajagriha in Behar) ; (|?£f|^6£# Pali) also 

 Rajagaha. 



The Pali or Bali from the Milint'ha, , 



2nd. "Wesali, [Yampure.] 



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This might be Visala or Oujein, but more probably it was Wisali, the 

 capital of the Wajji, the country of the Lichchawi Rajas, mentioned 

 in the Mahawanso.* 



3rd. WtiS&S^Fi Kabiulaphat or Kapilla Watthu (Saming). This 



appears to have been the birth-place of Buddha, where his father Sud- 

 dhodano reigned. Supposed, observes Turnour, to be in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hurdwar in India, and to have derived its name from 

 Kapillo, the name of Gotama in a former existence. It is elsewhere 

 noticed as a place called Kapilavastu, N. of Gurruckpore, near upon 

 the Rapti river, where it issues from thehills.f The Siamese say it lies 

 close to the Chinese frontier. In the Mahawanso this country is named 

 Kapilawatthapura. 



This is the Burmese Kapila pye over which reigned Ichada and his 

 line. 



4th. $|£^§fri5£5€§fr Anlakapake' may be the Alawipura of the 



Mahawanso, (p. 181). 



5th. |$y W$£ Ramak'ham. 



This would seem to be Ramagamo of the MahawansoJ a town on 

 the Ganges, for in this work, I find it thus noticed : — ■ 



" The pre-eminent priest the Thero Maha Kassapo, being endowed 

 with the foresight of divination in order that he might be prepared 

 for the extensive requisition which would be made (at a future period) 

 by the monarch Dhammasoko for relics (by application) to king Ajata- 

 sattii, caused a great enshrinement of relics to be celebrated with every 

 sacred solemnity in the neighbourhood of Rajagaha ; and he transferred 

 the other seven donas of relics (thither), but being cognizant of the 

 wish of the divine teacher (Buddha) he did not remove the ( dona' 

 deposited at Rdjagdmo." This temple was afterwards destroyed by the 

 inroad of the Ganges, (Mahawanso.) 



* Tumour's Mahawanso, p. 73. 



t Tumour's Mahawanso, (Index,) p. 11. % Ibid. p. 184-5. 



