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India. Udayana Vatsa, the son of Satanika, is also known to the 
Tibetans as the King of Kosémbi. In the Ratnévali he is called Vatsa 
Raja, or King of the Vatsas, and his capital Vatsa pattana, which is 
therefore only another name for Kosimbi. In this celebrated city, 
Buddha is said to have spent the 6th and 9th years of his Buddha- 
hood. Lastly, Hwen Thsang relates that the famous statue of Buddha 
in red sandal wood, which was made by King Udayana during the 
life time of the Teacher, still existed under a stone dome in the ancient 
palace of King Udayana. 
284. The site of this great city, the capital of the later Pandu 
Princes, and the shrine of the most sacred of all the statues of Buddha, 
has long been sought in vain. The Brahmans generally asserted that 
it stood either on the Ganges, or close to it, and the discovery of the 
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name of Kosdmbi mandala, or “ Kingdom of Kosimbi,” in an inserip- 
tion over the gateway of the fort of Khara, seems to confirm the general 
belief, although the south-west bearing from Prayaga, or Allahabad, 
as recorded by Hwen Thsang, points unmistakably to the line of the 
Jumna. In January 1861, Mr. Bayley informed me that he believed 
the ancient Kosimbi would be found in the old village of Kosam, on 
the Jumna, about 30 miles above Allahabad. In the following month 
I met Babu Siva Prasid, of the Educational Department, who takes a 
deep and intelligent interest in all archeological subjects, and from 
him [ learned that Kosam is still known as Kosdémbi-nagar, that it is 
even now a great resort of the Jains, and that only one century ago 
it was a large and flourishing town. This information was quite suffi- 
cient to satisfy me that Kosam was the actual site of the once famous 
Kosimbi. Still, however, there was no direct evidence to show that 
the city was situated on the Jumna; but this missing link in the chain 
of evidence I shortly afterwards found in the curious legend of Bak- 
kula, which is related at length in Hardy’s Manual of Buddhism. 
The infant Bakkula was born at Kosémbi, and while his mother was 
bathing in the Jumna, he accidentally fell into the river, and being 
swallowed by a fish was carried to Benares. There the fish was caught 
and sold to the wife of a nobleman, who on opening it found the young 
child still alive inside, and at once adopted it as her own. The true 
mother hearing of this wonderful escape of the infant, proceeded to 
Benares, and demanded the return of the child, which was of course 
refused. The matter was then referred to the King, who decided that 

