The clause may hereafter obtain more elucidation.
(9) Of Kusanagara, Pava, Vaisali, and other kingdoms.

Kings, princes, brahmans,--each wanted the whole relic; but they agreed to an eightfold division at the suggestion of the brahman Drona.
(10) These "strong heroes" were the chiefs of Vaisali, a kingdom and city, with an oligarchical constitution.

They embraced Buddhism early, and were noted for their peculiar attachment to Buddha.

The second synod was held at Vaisali, as related in the next chapter.

The ruins of the city still exist at Bassahar, north of Patna, the same, I suppose, as Besarh, twenty miles north of Hajipur.