Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.56

c7.s1.56

The Kālāmas of Kesaputta were a small republican clan during the age of Bimbisāra, and have been mentioned along with other contemporary republican clans such as the Śākyas of Kapilavastu, the Koliyas of Rāmagāma, the Bhaggas of Sumsumāra hill, the Bulis of Allakappa, and the Moriyas of Pipphalivana. According to the Buddhacarita (XII, 2) they were the clans to which the philosopher Āḷāra belonged. The Aṅguttara Nikāya (I, 188) seems to place Kesaputta in Kosala.¹