Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.184

c15.184

As the inscription on the *Stūpa* describes the Sākyas as its builders, it may be taken to be one of the original *Stūpas* in which, according to the *Mahāparinibbāna-suttanta*, were enshrined relics of the sacred body of the Buddha, after its cremation at Kusinārā, by eight contending claimants among whom figured the Sākyas of Kapilavastu.