• Ketumatī

1. Ketumatī. The future name of Bārānasī. It will be at the head of eighty-four thousand towns, the capital of the Cakkavatti Sankha and the birthplace of the Buddha Metteyya. D.iii.75f; J.vi.594; Anāgat., vv.8, 30; according to v.8 it is the same as Kusāvati.

2. Ketumatī. A river in the Himalaya region. Vessantara, with his wife and children, had a meal on its banks, bathed and drank in the river, and from there went to Nālika. J. vi.518f.

3. Ketumatī. The palace of the deva Mahāsena (a previous birth of Nāgasena). (Mil.., p.6).

4. Ketumatī. The Pali name for the Burmese city of Taungu ( Bode: op. cit., 45).

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