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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Note 2 — Chapter XVIII · KANYAKUBJA, OR CANOUGE. BUDDHA’S PREACHING.

James Legge translation

(2) 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 Brahma-datta, who were made deformed by the curse of the rishi Maha-vriksha, whose overtures they had refused. E. H., p. 51.

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