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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Note 1 — Chapter XXI · THE THREE PREDECESSORS OF SAKYAMUNI IN THE BUDDHASHIP.

James Legge translation

(1) Identified, as Beal says, by Cunningham with Tadwa, a village nine miles to the west of Sahara-mahat. The birthplace of Kasyapa Buddha is generally thought to have been Benares. According to a calculation of Rémusat, from his birth to A.D. 1832 there were 1,992,859 years!

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