On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s2.37
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s2.37
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v2.c26.s2.37
The best indication of the site of Kuśinagara is that given by General H. H. Prince Khadga Shamshēr Jang, Rāna Bahādur, late Governor of Western Nepāl, who places it at the confluence of the Little Rāptī (which he calls Achiravatī) with the Gandak or Hiraṇyavatī, near Bhavasār Ghāṭ (*Pioneer Mail*, 26 Feb., 1904). Mr. Watters erroneously supposed (II, 29) that the names Hiraṇyavatī and Airāvatī (Ajitavatī, Achiravatī) referred to one stream.