There was, in the Buddha's time, a deer park at Sankissa where Suhemanta Thera heard the Buddha preach.Theragāthā Commentary, i, 212 During the Vajjiputta controversy, Revata Thera, on his way from Soreyya to Sahajati, went through Sankissa. The road he took passed through Sankissa, Kannakujja, Udumbara and Aggalapura.Vinaya Pitaka, ed. Oldenberg, ii, 299f The excavations carried out in the place did not reveal any artifacts of importance.
