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Sravasti Travel Guide

Sravasti known presently as Naheth-Maheth, sravasti has been inentioned in the Ramayana and Mahabharata as a prosperous city of the Kosala Kingdom. It is said ton have been founded by the mythological King sravasta.
sravasti was an active centre of Buddhism even in the Buddha's tile time. the Buddha himself 25 summers seasons here, and delivered important sermous. Itwas here that Anathapindaka built, in the garden of wince jeta alarge monastery for the 1m:option of the Buddha sravasti has Imen identified with the Remains at
rheth Maheth on the borders of onnda and Baharaich districts. It is ,,ihiated on the banks of the of river mph.
Emperor ashoka visited ,.14ivasti during the course of his de votional pilgrimage and commemo¬rated his visit by erecting two pillars each 21 metres high. sravasti has also been a jain stronghold with lord Mahavira quenting it often.