The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.106

c5.s9.106

Khema-vatinagara—The birth place of the Buddha Krakuchchhanda or Krakuchandra (*Svayambhū P*, ch 4) It was also called Khema (*Dīpavaṃsa* in *JASB*, 1838, p 793) It has been identified with Gutiva, four miles to the south of Tilaura in the Nepalese Terai (P C Mukherji's *Antiquities of Terai, Nepal*, pp 49, 55) According to Fa-Hian, Krakuchandra's birth place was Napeikea or Nabhiga Kheṭaka—Kaira, 20 miles south of Ahmedabad, on the river Vetravatī (present Vatrak) in Guzerat, described in the Padma P., (Uttara Kh., ch. 51; Daśakumāracarita, ch. 6 and Cunningham's Anc. Geo., p. 492). See Kachoḥha. For a description of the town, see Bishop Heber's Narrative of a Journey, vol. II, p. 156. It contains a Jaina temple.