Pāli Dictionary

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  • The future name of Bārāṇasī, destined to be the capital of the Cakkavatti Saṅkha at the head of eighty-four thousand towns and the birthplace of Metteyya Buddha.

  • A river in the Himalayan region where Vessantara, with his wife and children, bathed, drank, and took a meal on his way to Nālika.

  • The palace of the deva Mahāsena, a previous birth of Nāgasena.

  • 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.

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