Other places in connexion with them became remarkable, according to the manifestations which were made at them at particular times.
The country of Kapilavastu is a great scene of empty desolation.

The inhabitants are few and far between.

On the roads people have to be on their guard against white elephants( 21) and lions, and should not travel incautiously.
NOTES (1) Kapilavastu, "the city of beautiful virtue," was the birthplace of Sakyamuni, but was destroyed, as intimated in the notes on last chapter, during his lifetime.

It was situated a short distance north-west of the present Goruckpoor, lat.

26d 46s N., lon.