王舍城以南、南山附近的一座婆羅門村落，佛陀成道第十一年曾在此為農夫 Kāsī-Bhāradvāja 說法而使其歸信，該經即以他之名命名。

A brahmin village near Dakkhiṇagiri south of Rājagaha where the Buddha, during the eleventh year of his ministry, converted the farmer Kāsī Bhāradvāja by teaching him the discourse that bears his name.