Kusāvātī untranslated

Kusāvātī. A city in the kingdom of the Mallas. In the present age it was called Kusinārā. Once it was the royal city of Mahā Sudassana and was twelve leagues in length and twelve in breadth, prosperous and full of people, like Āḷakamandā (DN.ii.146f; Ja.i.392; Cp.i.4; Divy.227). It was then at the head of eighty-four towns (SN.iii.144).

The Mahā Sudassanasutta (DN.ii.170f) contains a long description of the city. It was the capital of several kings of the Mahā Sammata dynasty (Mhv.ii.7; Dpv.iii.9), including Okkāka, father of Kusa (Ja.v.278ff).

In the time of Metteya Buddha, Mahā Sammata will be known as Ketumatī (Anāg.v.18).