Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.69

c7.s1.69

In the Cariyāpiṭaka (Dr. B. C. Law's Ed., p. 7) we read that Canda-Kumāra was the son of Pupphavatī. Ekarāja of Pupphavatī. He offered charities whole-heartedly and he never ate anything without first giving it to a beggar. Pupphavatī was only another name for Bārāṇasī, the capital of the Kāsī kingdom (Cl., pp. 50-51). Other names of Bārāṇasī were Surundhana, Sudassana, Brahma-vaddhana, Rammanagara and Molini.