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परिशिष्ट - ६ : २१७
which Buddha bathed ! About 2 miles to the west of the Anhea Nala there is another river called the Ghagi Nadi.
परिशिष्ट सं० ६
Report of Tour in North and South Bihar in 1880-81
17-PADARAONA, or PADROWNA
P. 118
At Padaraona, or Parowna, as the village is commonly called, there is a splendid tope of trees; one of the largest, I think, on that line of march. The trees are regularly planted in straight lines from east to west1. The remains here consist in a large mound, covered with broken brick and rubbish. This mound is 220 feet in length from west to east, and 120 feet in breadth from north to south, and 14 feet in height at the western end above the fields. General Cunningham concludes this mound, from the parellel lines of walls disclosed by excavation, to be the remains of a buliding for the accommodation of Buddhist monks, and identifies Padaraona, or Padaravana, with the ancient Pāwā, both on account of its situation and the similarity of the names; taking the name of the village to be merely another reading of Padara vana or Padar-ban, which might have been shortened to Parban, Parwan, and Pāwā. As there can be no reasonable doubt of this identity, the large village of Padaraona is the site where, after the cremation of Buddha's body, his followers raised a stupa over one-eighth of the sacred relics,
-Garrison
1. In occurred to me, that the name of Parowna, by which this village is known, might possibly have some connection with this remarkable encamping-ground Parow, or Manzil, indicating a halt or stage.
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