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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Note 3 — Chapter XXIV · WHERE BUDDHA FINALLY RENOUNCED THE WORLD, AND WHERE HE DIED.

James Legge translation

(3) In Pâli Kusinara. It got its name from the Kusa grass (the poa cynosuroides); and its ruins are still extant, near Kusiah, 180 N.W. from Patna; “about,” says Davids, “120 miles N.N.E. of Benares, and 80 miles due east of Kapilavastu.”

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