Discovery of the muddy river where a dysentry infected Buddha asked Anand for water from a nearby rivulet. "Kohar River." In the Mahaparinirvana story the Buddha gets dysentery in Sugauli (Cundas mango grove). From here he carries on north westwards and rests under a tree. He is thirsty so requests Anand to get him water from the nearby river. Anand goes to fetch water but realizes 500 bullock carts have crossed it muddying the water. He goes back empty handed. But the Buddha sends him back. On the third trip he realizes the water is clean. The river is today called Kohra which means misty or hazy. In this case Kohra will definitely mean muddy. The area was flooded when I took this video. This video is 2 kilometers to the east of where this story took place. Hardly half a kilometer north of this rivulet is the Burhi Gandak river mispronounced in Buddhist scriptures as the Kukkuta river. This river is known as Narayani in Nepal, Burhi Gandak in Bihar and in this particular area it is known as the Sikrana (which means to grotesquely thin down) river. The viewer will realize all the names in this area tally with the Mahaparinirvana story.


Here's the link to the youtube video of the Kohra river where the Buddha forced Anand to supply him drinking water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B155gvyoWE0