Once a great city and the capital of ancient Vamsa Kingdom, Kosambi is one of the most important Buddhist sites in India. Located near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, Kosambi has witnessed a number of important events in the Buddha's life. On your tour to Kosambi, you will come across one of the famous Ashokan Pillar and the ruins of the famous Ghositarama Monastery, which was first to be built during the Buddha's lifetime and where Buddha spent his 6th and 9th rainy seasons. The ancient ruined walls of the city are also worth visiting on your Kosambi Tour.

The Buddha delivered several important sermons in Kosambi, elevating it to a center of great learning for Buddhists. Once Kosambi was one of the six most important and famous towns of India. The archaeological excavations of Kosambi have yielded a large number of sculptures and figurines, coins, punch-marked and cast coins and terra-cotta sculptures, which show the importance of the city in the era gone by. The Allahabad Museum and the Archaeological Museum of Allahabad University have most of the antiquities discovered at Kosambi.

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