________________ VAISALI IN INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Dr. RADHAKUMUD MOOKERJI, M.A., Ph. D., P.R.S. We are assembled here to-day at a place which is unique in India's history and civilization. Vaisali is at once a holy and a historical place, the confluence of three streams of culture, Brahmanical, Jain, and Buddhist. We are all here as historical and religious pilgrims to take our purifying baths in the sacred streams of these cultural traditions, with which is charged the atmosphere of this place. The history of this place has its roots in the remote past in the days of the story of Ramayana, where it is stated that the Iksvaku Queen Alambusa bad a pious son named Visala, who founded the city which he called Visalapuri. Tenth in descent from Visala was King Sumari 1. Presidential address delivered at the First Vaisali Festival at Vaisali on March 31, 1945.
