Makuṭabandhana untranslated

Makuṭabandhana. A “shrine” of the Mallas to the east of Kusināra, where Gotama Buddha’s body was cremated (DN.ii.160-1). Buddhaghosa explains that the Makuṭabandhana was a Hall in which the Malla chiefs put on their ornaments on festival days. It was called a cetiya because it was decorated (cittakatthena pan’esa cetiyaṁ). DN­a.ii.596; see also Divy.201.

Xuanzang’s description (Beal-Xuan, op.cit., ii.37) of the stūpa erected at what is evidently Makuṭabandhana suggests a different explanation. It was there that the Mallas laid aside their ornaments (makuṭa) and fell prostrate on the ground with grief at the Buddha’s death.