Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.611

c6.611

Piprāwā.—The oldest northern document was supposed to be the dedication of the Buddha’s relics at Piprāwā (*I.A.*, 1907, pp. 117-24). It is situated in the north of the Basti district on the Nepal frontier (*Archaeological Survey*, Vol. XXVI, 1897). The village of Piprāwā (Birdpur Estate), the findspot of the famous Piprāwā Vase, marks, according to Fleet, the site of Kapilavastu (*J.R.A.S.*, 1906, p. 180; *C.A.G.I.*, pp. 711-12). Rhys Davids takes it to be the new city built after the destruction of the old city by Viḍūḍabha (B. C. Law, *Geography of Early Buddhism*, p. 29).