[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c21.32 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.32 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.32 - **Language:** English ### [c21.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.32) ⁵ In Nepāl, beyond the first range of hills (\*J. R. A. S.\*, Jan., 1902), as I still think. H. H. General Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahādur agrees with me in placing Kuśinagara in Nepāl, and believes the site to be at the junction of the Little, or Eastern, Rāptī (Achiravatī) with the Gandak (Hiranyavatī). His position is farther west than that which I had selected, but almost in the same latitude, and is very likely to be correct (\*Pioneer Mail\*, Allahābād, Feb. 26, 1904). The discovery in the large \*stūpa\* behind the Nirvāṇa temple near Kasiā of an inscribed copper plate bearing the words \[\*parini\*\] \*rvāṇa-chaitye tāmra-paṭṭa iti\* has revived and supported the old theory that the remains near Kasiā in the east of the Gorakhpur District represent Kuśinagara (Pargiter, \*J. R. A. S.\*, 1913, p. 152). But that theory is untenable, because Kuśinagara was, and long had been, deserted in the time of the Chinese pilgrims, whereas building was continuous at Kasiā all through the Gupta period and afterwards. In all probability the establishment near Kasiā, which appears to have been subordinate to the monastery of the Decease at Kuśinagara, was also known as a \*parinirvāṇa-chaitya\*. See my article on Kuśinagara in Hastings, \*Encycl. of Religion and Ethics\*. - [Previous: c21.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.31) - [Next: c21.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.33) - [Up: c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21) ## Linked texts (2) - [Kasia](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kasia) - [Kusinagara (Kasia)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kusinagara) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c21.32) · Pramāṇa