Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.32

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In the Mahāparinibbāna Suttanta (DN., II) we are told that the Bulis of Allakappa obtained the possession of a portion of the relics of the Buddha and built a stūpa over them. The Bulis, like the Licchavis of Vesāli, the Videhas of Mithilā, the Sākiyas of Kapilavatthu, the Koliyas of Rāmagāma, the Bhaggas of Sumsumāra hill and the Moriyas of Pipphalivana, had a republican form of government. But their importance as a republican state was not very great.