Ketumatī
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 devaMahāsena （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．