30 W. Hoey —Supplement to Note on Vaisali. [No. 1, 
Coming from Sewan west by the road to Partabpur Factory, one 
crosses the Daha (Sondi) and then the Satnar Nala, and leaving 
Titaria on the south, goes on to the Sondi. The people call the Satnar 
Nala also Satnariya Nali and say that in bygone days it was the stream 
at which suttees took place. It seems to me that the name 
may have some connection with the seven (sapta) princes who were 
prepared to fight with the Mallas for the relics of Buddha, had not 
Drona intervened and divided them. Bhata-pokhar (Sansc. bhakta- 
puskara) may be the place where the relics were divided. At that 
place there are brick remains, probably of a stupa. 
There are remains at Gosopali not far from the Satnar Nala. 
There is also farther on towards the Sonda a village called Malpali or 
Nandpali, supposed to be an old site. 
In view of these observations I wish to withdraw the derivation 
suggested by me for Sewan, as (Javayana, the place where the bier 
rested, and to say that Kusinara is not Sewan itself. Indeed, it occurs 
to me that Sewan may be no other than the word denoting boundary 
and mean the spot where one left the Vaisali territory when crossing 
over the river to the Kusinara kingdom. 
The second place which I wish to bring to notice is Don Buzurg, 
or simply Don, a large village lying seven miles south of Mairwa, a 
station on the Bengal North-Western Railway line. The village site 
is a range of high ground composed of massive bricks, extensive and 
of undoubted antiquity. Close up to this site is a huge mound, dis¬ 
tinctive in outline and character, bare, timeworn and rugged. It is 
called Drona’s Mound. When I inquired who this Drona was, I was 
told that he was a great Muni, the Dronacarya, who in ancient days 
taught the kings of the countries round about the use of arms. There 
seems to me to be here a confusion of the Drona who was the tutor of the 
Kuru and Pandu princes, with the Drona of Buddhist history, who 
far from teaching the use of arms, interposed to prevent the resort to 
arms and divided the relics of Buddha to the seven claimants. The 
mound is one which should be examined. 
As I have now left India, I trust some one will thoroughly examine 
the sites which I have indicated, for I feel sure that the result will be 
a help in the cause of research as far as the identification of Buddhist 
sites in India is concerned. 
