The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.64

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Anomâ—The river Aumi, in the district of Gorakhpur (Cunningham's *Ancient Geography of India*, p. 423). It was crossed by Buddha after he left his father's palace at a place now called Chaṇḍâuli on the eastern bank of the river, whence Chhandaka returned with Buddha's horse Kaṇṭhaka to Kapilâvastu (*Aśvaghosha's Buddha-Charita*, Bk. V). But Carlleyle identifies the river Anomâ with the Kudawa Naḍî in the Bastî district of Oudh (*Arch. S. Rep.*, vol. XXII, p. 224, and Führer's *MAI*). Carlleyle identifies the *stûpa* of Chhandaka's return with the Mahâ-thân Dih, four miles to the north-east of Tameswar or Maneya, and the Cut-Hair Stûpa with the Sirasarao mound on the east bank of the Anomâ river in the Gorakhpur district (*Arch. S. Rep.*, XXII, pp. 11, 15).