1. Ketumatí.-The future name of Báránasí. 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; Anágat., vv.8, 30; according to v.8 it is the same as Kusávati.
2. Ketumatí.-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 Nálika. J.vi.518f.
3. Ketumatí.-The palace of the deva Mahásena (a previous birth of Nágasena). (Mil., p.6).
4. Ketumatí.-The Pali name for the Burmese city of Taungu (Bode: op. cit., 45).
Ketumatí is in Jeyyavaddhanarattha. It was once the capital of King Mahásirijeyyasúra who possessed a famous elephant, called Devanága. Buddhism was established in Ketumatí by a monk from Ceylon who was named Maháparakkama. It later became the residence of famous monks. Sás., pp.80, 81; see also 101, 118, 162.