Geography of Early Buddhism c7.26

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The Buddha spent much of his time at Sāvatthī, the capital of Kosala, and most of his sermons were delivered there. The story of the conversion of the Kosalans to the Buddhist faith is related in some detail. In course of his journey over northern India, Buddha reached Kosala and went to Sālā, a brāhmana village of Kosala. There the Buddha delivered a series of sermons and the brahmin householders were converted to the new faith (MN., I, pp. 285 ff.). The Buddha also converted the brahmins of Nagaravinda, a brāhmana village of Kosala (Ibid., III, pp. 290 ff.). He went to the Mallas, Vajjis, Kāsīs and Magadhas from Kosala (SN., V, p. 349). Once he went to Veṇāgapura, a brāhmans village of Kosala, and converted the brāhmana householders of the village (AN., I, pp. 180 ff.). In the Pārāyaṇavagga of the Sutta Nipāta (pp. 190-192), we are told that a teacher of Kosala named Bāvari went from Kosala to Dakkhiṇāpatha. There in the kingdom of Assaka, near the lake, he built a hermitage on the bank of the river Godāvarī. We are further told that Bāvari and a certain brāhmaṇa went to the Buddha who was then in Kosala in order to have their dispute settled by the Blessed One.