Crossword-Solution: PAVA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The princes of Kusanagara were called mallas, “strong or mighty heroes;” so also were those of Pava and Vaisali; and a question arises whether the language may not refer to some story which Fâ-Hien had heard,—something which they did on this great occasion.

Large birds, a guan (pava de monte) for instance, or a curassao (alector), when wounded in the thigh, die in two or three minutes; but it is often ten or twelve minutes before life is extinct in a pig or a peccary.

Now at that time the venerable Maha Kassapa was journeying along the high road from Pava to Kusinara with a great company of the brethren, with about five hundred of the brethren.

Just at that time a certain naked ascetic who had picked up a Mandarava flower in Kusinara was coming along the high road to Pava.

Over the remains of the Blessed One will I put up a sacred cairn, and in honor thereof will I celebrate a feast!" And the Mallas of Pava heard the news that the Blessed One had died at Kusinara.