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Birthplace of one Tīrthaṅkara · Champanagar

Campā

चम्पा

Vāsupūjya's city, and the one place on the map that is both a birth and a departure: he was born here and attained nirvāṇa here.

By Hemacandra's reckoning, as the atlas carries it, Vāsupūjya was born here, and Vāsupūjya attained nirvāṇa here as well. Ancient Campā, capital of Aṅga, is at Champanagar on the Gaṅgā by Bhagalpur, and the identification is secure. Of the twenty-four only Vāsupūjya left neither from Sammeta Śikhara nor from a mountain of his own; he left from his own city.

The dot on the map is Champanagar, Bhagalpur, Bihar; the identification is settled by archaeology. Every site in this chapter is graded the same way, and the section says why.

The twenty-four on the groundsixteen cities of birth, five places of nirvāṇa, four later tīrthasevery modern identification is the pilgrimage tradition's, graded in its entryno border is drawn; the coast is Natural EarthAṣṭāpadanorth - the texts give it no placeAyodhyā ×5ŚrāvastīKauśāmbīVārāṇasī ×2CandrapurīKākandīBhadrilapuraSiṃhapurīCampāKāmpilyaRatnapurīHastināpura ×3Mithilā ×2RājagṛhaŚauryapuraKṣatriyakuṇḍaSammeta Śikhara ×20GirnārPāvāpurīŚatruñjayaRanakpurDilwaraShravanabelagolaborn herenirvāṇa herelater tīrthas - no kalyāṇakathe coast: Natural Earth 1:50m land, public domain
The twenty-four on the ground - Campā highlighted

Measurements and counts

Born hereVāsupūjya
Nirvāṇa hereVāsupūjya
TodayChampanagar, Bhagalpur, Bihar
Identificationsettled by archaeology

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10