Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.70

c7.s1.70

The Moriyas of Pipphalivana are included in the list of the republican clans that existed in the time Pipphalivana. of the Buddha (Mahāparinibbāna Sutta-ta—DN., Vol. II, p. 167). There is little information about the Moriyas in Buddhist literature. From the Suttanta referred to above we come to know that they got a portion of the relics of the Buddha and erected a stūpa over the same. In the Mahāvaṃsa we are told that Candagutta, grandfather of Asoka, belonged to the Moriya clan. The Moriyas are, therefore, the same as the Mauryas.