85d 15s E.The Sanskrit name means "The city of flowers." It is the Indian Florence.
(2) See chap.

x, note 3.

Asoka transferred his court from Rajagriha to Pataliputtra, and there, in the eighteenth year of his reign, he convoked the third Great Synod,--according, at least, to southern Buddhism.

It must have been held a few years before B.C.

250; Eitel says in 246.
(3) "The Vulture-hill;" so called because Mara, according to Buddhist tradition, once assumed the form of a vulture on it to interrupt the meditation of Ananda; or, more probably, because it was a resort of vultures.