Ketumatī4
PlaceПалийское название бирманского города Таунгу, некогда столицы царя, владевшего знаменитым слоном, где буддизм был установлен монахом со Шри-Ланки и который впоследствии стал домом для прославленных монахов.
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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