kuSAvatI N. of a city, the capital of Kuśa, Rāma's son; see kuSa .
kuSAvatI or kuSasTalI The capital of Dakṣiṇa-Kośala and situated in the defiles of the Vindhya; it must have been to the north of the Narmadā but south of the Vindhya, and is probably the same as Ramnagar in Bundelkhand. Rājaśekhara calls the lord of Kuśasthalī maDyadeSanareMdra , the lord of the middle-land or Bundelkhand.