Identifier: archaeologicalsu01nage (find matches)
Title: The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nagendra-Natha Vasu
Subjects: Cults Buddha and Buddhism
Publisher: (Calcutta Printed by U.N. Bhattacharyya at the Hare Press)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r.) THE BUDDHIST inft.uenck. xlvii recorded in tlio Buddhistic work called Datha-vamsa, that after the payi-uirvdna ol Buddha,when his body was beiug cremated, one of hisdisciples called Ksenia secured a tooth of Buddhafrom the funeral pyre and made a present of it toBrahma Datta, king of Kaliijga. The king hada golden temi)le built in his capital and placedthe holy tooth in it. From this, the capital ofKaliijga came to be known as Danta-pnri (thecity of the tooth). In the district of Midnapur,near the i\Iayurabhanja border, there is a largeand well-known village, a railway station, and achanlxi called Dantan, Diitan or Dantun. We havefound this place to be identical with Danta-puri.^The ignorant villagers now attribute the name ofthe place to the tooth-brush of Cri Chaitanyabeing left there. This is absurd, as the placecontains many relics of a remote ancient past, faranterior to the time of Cri Chaitanya. But inthis story is perhaps preserved a faint recollec-tion of the tradition o

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