Pāli Dictionary

Ketumatī4

Place

The Pāḷi name for the Burmese city of Taungu, once the capital of a king who possessed a famous elephant, and where Buddhism was established by a monk from Sri Lanka and which later became home to renowned monks.

The Pāḷi name for the Burmese city of Taungu (Bode: op.cit., 45).

Ketumatī is in Jeyyavaḍḍhanaraṭṭha. It was once the capital of King Mahāsirijeyyasūra who possessed a famous elephant, called Devanāga. Buddhism was established in Ketumatī by a monk from Sri Lanka named Mahāparakkama. It later became the residence of famous monks. Sās., pp.80, 81; see also 101, 118, 162.

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