Ketumatī4
Place缅甸东吁城的巴利名称，曾是一位拥有著名大象的国王的都城；佛教由一位来自斯里兰卡的僧人在此建立，此城后来也成为诸多知名僧人的驻锡之地。
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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