It was in this town, or in its neighbourhood, that Sakyamuni spent many years of his life after he became Buddha.
(2) There were two Indian kingdoms of this name, a southern and a northern.

This was the northern, a part of the present Oudh.
(3) In Singhalese, Pase-nadi, meaning "leader of the victorious army." He was one of the earliest converts and chief patrons of Sakyamuni.
Eitel calls him (p.

95) one of the originators of Buddhist idolatory, because of the statue which is mentioned in this chapter.

See Hardy's M.B., pp.

283, 284, et al.
(4) Explained by "Path of Love," and "Lord of Life." Prajapati was aunt and nurse of Sakyamuni, the first woman admitted to the monkhood, and the first superior of the first Buddhistic convent.