Ketumatī untranslated

Ketumatī 01. The future name of Bārāṇasī. It will be at the head of eighty-four thousand towns, the capital of the Cakkavatti Saṅkha and the birthplace of the Metteyya Buddha. DN.iii.75f; Ja.vi.594; Anāgatavaṁsa vv.8, 30; according to v.8 it is the same as Kusāvatī.

Ketumatī 02. A river in the Himālaya region. Vessantara, with his wife and children, had a meal on its banks, bathed and drank in the river, and from there went to Nāḷika. Ja.vi.518f.

Ketumatī 03. The palace of the Deva Mahā Sena (a previous birth of Nāgasena). (Mil., p.6).

Ketumatī 04. The Pāḷi name for the Burmese city of Taungu (Bode, 45).

Ketumatī is in Jeyyavaḍḍhanaraṭṭha. It was once the capital of King Mahā Sirijeyyasūra who possessed a famous elephant, called Devanāga. Buddhism was established in Ketumatī by a monk from Ceylon who was named Mahā Parakkama. It later became the residence of famous monks. Sās., pp.80, 81; see also 101, 118, 162.