On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.s10.4

v2.c21.s10.4

The Divyāvadāna in giving the names of the kings who will be reigning when Maitreya comes places the names Kalinga and Mithilā side by side as the respective residences of different kings.¹ It must be a misunderstanding of some snch passage that lies at the root of the statement we find in some Buddhist treatises that Kalinga, with its capital Mithilā, was mentioned by the Buddha. In some Buddhist treatises we find a Kalinga with its capital Mithilā mentioned by the Buddha as one of the four places possessing inexhaustible treasures of precious substances.² But Mithilā was, of course the capital of Videha; and we find in older works such as the "Jātaka", the "Mahāvastu", and the "Digha", mention of a kingdom named Kalinga with its capital Dantapura ages before the Buddha's time.³