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२१४ : महावीर निर्वाणभूमि पावा : एक विमर्श
or Padarban, might easily be shortened to Parban, Paban, and Pāwā. In the Tibetan ‘Kahgyur' this town is called Digpachan, but as the meaning of the name is not given, it is impossible to say whether it is an original Indian name or a Tibetan translation. Between Pāwā and Kusinagara there was a stream called Kukutthā or Kukukhā, at which Buddha stopped to bathe and drink. This must be the persent Bodhi, or Barhi, or Bandhi Nala, which, after a coures of 36 miles, joins the Chota Gandak, or Hirana river on its left bank, 8 miles below Kasia.
परिशिष्ट सं०५
Report of Tours in Gorakhapur, Saran and Ghazipur
--C, L. Carlyle
p. 29
10. Pāwā--After having completed my work at the Mātha Kunwar or Kusinagara, the next object which I had in view was to make investigations regarding the true site of an ancient town called Pāwā, at or near which Buddha is said to have rested and drunk water and bathed, before proceeding on to Kusinagara on his last journey, the course of which was from Vaisāli or Besārh to Kusinagara. At Pāwā there was a great stúpa in which one of the original eight portions of the relics of Buddha was enshrined. In the Ceylonese Buddhist chronicles, Pāwā is said to have been situated at the distance of about 12 miles from Kusinagara, in the direction of the Gandak River, that is some-where to the east of Kusinagara and on the old road or track which people travelled between Vaisali and Kusinagara.
Now, some years ago, General Cunningham proposed to
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