Also in the Sutta-Nipata v. 424 talking to king Bimbisara:

`Ujuṃ janapado rāja, himavantassa passato;
Dhanavīriyena sampanno, kosalesu [kosalassa (syā. ka.)] niketino.

``Ādiccā [ādicco (ka.)] nāma gottena, sākiyā [sākiyo (ka.)] nāma jātiyā;

Tamhā kulā pabbajitomhi, na kāme abhipatthayaṃ.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, DC Wijeratna <dcwijeratna@...> wrote:
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> "He also says that in "one of the earliest Pali documents he [the Buddha] is represented as calling himself a Kosalan." Does anyone know which document he is referring to?"
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> "Again, venerable sir, the Blessed One is noble and I am a noble; the Blessed One is is a Kosalan and I am a Kosalan; ...." MN 89 Dhammacetiya sutta, Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation, p. 733.
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> Possibly, RhD refers to the above passage. 
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> --- On Sat, 1/30/10, Bryan Levman <bryan.levman@...> wrote:
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