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Kunjaravatta a mountain
According to the tradition, when Vairasāmi died at this place, the Indra went round the mountain on his elephant and since then this place came to be known as Kuñjarāvatta.429
It is not identifiable.
Kuru or Kurujangala-a kingdom
Kuru was one of the twenty five and a half Aryan countries with Gayapura as its capital.
The ancient Kuru country may be said to have comprised Kurukshetra or Thaneshwar 430
Kurukhetta
Kurukhetta is referred to in the commentary of the Brhtkalpa Bhasya,431
The country is immediately around Thaneshwar between the Sarasvati and Drishadvati rivers is known by the name of Kurukshetra.432
LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA
Kusaggapura-a city
Kusaggapura is another name for Rajagiha It is said that, after Canagapura was in ruin, pcople saw an unconquerable ox, and founded Usabhapura. In course of time, Usabhapura also was ruined and seeing a big kusa plant, Kussaggapura was founded.433 (See Rayagiha).
Hiuen Tsang says that the old capital occupied by Bimbisara was called Kusagra. It was afflicted by frequent files and Bimbisara, on the advice of his ministers. abandoned it and built the new city on the site of the old country. The city was called Rayagiha, because Bimbisāra was the first person to occupy it. Pargiter suggests that the old city was called Kuśāgrapura after Kusagra, an carly king of Magadha.434 Kusatta or Kusavatta-a kingdom
This country is included among the twenty five and a half Aryan countries with Soriyapura as its capital.
The country around Suryapura in the Agra district was known as Kusaṭṭā (See Soriyapura).
Kusatthala-a city
This town was located in Magadha.435
Its exact location is not known.
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Marana 472 f, 128 a See also Vasu., p 122, Ramayana IV, 41, GEB p 17 f
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Malalasekara, op. cit, under "Kusaggapura."
Maha. Ni. p. 16.
