Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.400
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c7.400
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v1.c7.400
Ānanda did his best to persuade the Buddha to die in one of the great cities, such as Rājagaha or Sāvatthi, and not in Kusinārā, the little wattle-and-daub town (as he called it) in the middle of the jungle. He was not satisfied until the Buddha had revealed to him the past history of Kusinārā, how it had once been Kusāvatī, the royal capital of the mighty Mahā Sudassana.¹⁰¹