Ketumatī4
Placeビルマの都市タウングーのパーリ語名で、かつて有名な象を持つ王の都であり、スリランカ出身の僧によって仏教が確立された地であり、後に高名な僧たちの本拠地となった。
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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