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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXI.
THE THREE PREDECESSORS OF SAKYAMUNI IN THE BUDDHASHIP.
Fifty le to the west of the city bring (the traveller) to a town named Too-wei,( 1) the birthplace of Kasyapa Buddha.( 1) At the place where he and his father met,( 2) and at that where he attained to pari-nirvana, topes were erected.

Over the entire relic of the whole body of him, the Kasyapa Tathagata,( 3) a great tope was also erected.
Going on south-east from the city of Sravasti for twelve yojanas, (the travellers) came to a town named Na-pei-kea,( 4) the birthplace of Krakuchanda Buddha.

At the place where he and his father met, and at that where he attained to pari-nirvana, topes were erected.

Going north from here less than a yojana, they came to a town which had been the birthplace of Kanakamuni Buddha.

At the place where he and his father met, and where he attained to pari-nirvana, topes were erected.
NOTES (1) Identified, as Beal says, by Cunningham with Tadwa, a village nine miles to the west of Sahara-mahat.


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