Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.414

c8.414

*Pipphalivana*.—It was the Moriyan capital which was identical with Nyagrodhavana or Banyan Grove mentioned by Hiuen Tsang where stood the famous Embers Tope (Watters, *On Yuan Chwang*, II, pp. 23-24). This is in agreement with the Tibetan account given in the *Dulva* (Rockhill, *Life of the Buddha*, p. 147). Some hold that Pipphalivana probably lay between Rummindei in the Nepalese Tarai and Kasia in the Gorakhpur district. (H. C. Raychaudhury, *Political History of Ancient India*, 4th ed., p. 217). The Moriyas of Pipphalivana were a republican clan that existed in the Buddha’s time (*Dīgha*, II, 167). They got a portion of the Buddha’s relics and erected a stūpa over the same (*Buddhist Suttas*, S.B.E., p. 135). According to the *Mahāvaṃsa* (v. 16) Candragupta, the grandfather of Aśoka, was born in the family of the Moriya Khattiyas.