Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.74

c8.74

∗ When Senart feels the want of a positive authority for the existence of Kapilavatthu, he has in his mind the silence of the Brahmanical literature, especially the great epic poems. Whoever considers at once what the epics, which were composed in the more westerly parts of India and the subject-matter of which lies chiefly in the more westerly lands, do yield for the geography of the east of the peninsula, and what they do not yield, will find their silence very explicable in the matter of this · certainly not very important, and moreover very early destroyed, town of Kapilavatthu.