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the east of Kapilavatthu and 2 miles to the north of Bhagavānpur. Devadaha on the other side of the Rohiņi (Hiuen Tsang's Tailavāha ?) was the seat of government of the first Koliyan territory. Rāmagāma, the second Koliyan territory, lay, according to Hiuen Tsang, to the east of Kapilavatthu, at a distance of about 300 li across a wild jungle. In order to reach Kusīnārā from it, the pilgrim had to walk north-east through a great forest, along a dangerous and difficult road, where wild oxen, herds of elephants, and robbers, and hunters caused incessant trouble. In the neighbourhood of Kapilavatthu was the famous pleasance of Nigrodha.
Pipphalivana: This is described as the land of the Moriyas. It is well-nigh impossible to offer any definite suggestion for its identification. One may be even tempted to find an echo of its name in that of Piprāvā, & village in the Birdpur Estate in the district of Basti. But a Buddhist tradition connects it with Himatala, which, if correct, may lead one to think that it lay somewhere in the kingdom which came to be known by the name of Nepal.
1 Law, Geography, p. 80. 3 Beal, op cit., i, p. 26. 8 Ibid., ii, p. 31. 4 Vinaya, i, 82; Jätaka, i, p. 888, 6 Law, Geography, p. 29. 6 Mahfinnm ) i Ainhalapa A n
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