. "Kushinagar District (Hindi: \u0915\u0941\u0936\u0940\u0928\u0917\u0930 \u091C\u093F\u0932\u093E, Urdu: \u06A9\u064F\u0634\u06CC \u0646\u06AF\u0631\u200E) is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Padarauna is the district headquarters. The district is named for Kushinagar, a Buddhist pilgrimage site where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana in the 6th or 5th centuries BCE."@en . .