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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
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texts that Mithila was the place of birth and salvation of the nineteenth and twenty-first Tirthařkaras.
It corresponds to modern Janakapur,' a small town within the border of Nepal as it was called Janakapuri in the Rāmāyana.
Mendhiyagāma (Mendhikagrāma)'
Mendhiyagāma was a town which was visited by Lord Mahāvīra after his departure from Srāvastī. It is here in the Salakoshaka Caitya he suffered from the bilious fever and got cured of it by taking well seasoned Kukkuta-Māriosa, presented by Revati, a female householder of this town. It is not yet identified.
Moya"
Moyā was hallowed by the sacred visit of the Master who once took his temporary abode there at the Nalanda Caitya lying to the north-eastern quarter of this city. It is not yet identified. May it correspond to the region round the present Mokamah in Bihar ?
Nalanda
Nalanda was a suburb town of Rūjagrha where Lord Mahāvira took his temporary residence in a weaver's workshop in the second year of his asceticism. It is here the first meeting between Gośāla Mankhaliputra and the Master took place.
Nalandă also finds mention in other Jaina texts,? Buddhist works, Chinese accounts and epigraphic records.10 It was intimately associated with the development of Jainism and Buddhism. It is identified with modern Baragaon situated at a
1 Avasyaka-Niryukti, 383.
2 C. A. G. I, p. 718. 3 Rāmāyana, 1, 48, 11.
4 Bhs, 15, 1, 557. 6 16, 3, 1, 126.
& Ib, 15, 1, 126. ? Süyagadanga Țī, 7, 68. 8 Samyutta, Nikaya II, p 220; Digha Nikaya, 1, p. 211;
Majjhima Nikaya, Vol 1, 371 ff.. 9 I-tsing-Record of the Buddhist religion-Introduction, p. xvii ;
Watters on Yuan Chwang II. pp. 164, 166. 10 Shahpur Stone Image Inscription of Adityasena ; Nalanda :
Vagīśvari stone Image Inscription in the 1st year of Gopala (J.A.S.B- 1908, VI. pp. 105-6 new series), Nalanda copper plate of Devapāla.
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