Note 2 — Chapter XVIII · KANYÂKUBJA, OR CANOUGE. BUDDHA’S PREACHING.
James Legge translation
Canouge, the latitude and longitude of which have been given in a previous note. The Sanskrit name means ‘the city of humpbacked maidens;’ with reference to the legend of the hundred daughters of king Brahmâ-datta, who were made deformed by the curse of the ṛishi Mahâ-vṛiksha, whose overtures they had refused. E. H., p. 51.