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was found to be 18 Kotis, or 180 millions of masurans. The garden 

 is said to have been 1,000 cubits in length and the same in breadth, 

 or 4,000 cubits in circuit. Extravagant as the sum may seem, it is 

 still too small to have covered the garden, if we are to take Mr. Hardy's 

 cubits at 18 inches, as each masuran would be one inch and eight- 

 tenths in length and breadth, which is about three times the size of 

 the old Indian silver coins. Unfortunately the dimensions of the 

 Jetavana are not stated either by Fa Hian or Hwen Thsang ; but the 

 ruined mound of the monastery still exists, and its dimensions do not 

 exceed 1,000 feet in length by 700 feet in breadth. Now, it is curious 

 that these numbers give an area which is only one-third of the size of 

 that recorded in the Ceylonese annals, and which therefore would be 

 exactly covered by 180 millions of old Indian silver coins, allowing 

 rather more than half an inch for the length and breadth of each coin. 

 The amount said to have been paid for the garden is of course only 

 the usual extravagant style of Indian exaggeration, for the sum of 18 

 kotis, even if taken at the lowest value of gold as ten times tha* 

 of silver, would be equal to 45 krors of Rupees or 45 millions 

 sterling. 



337. The Jetavana is described in the Ceylonese annals as consist- 

 ing of a central vihtir, or temple, with surrounding houses for priests, 

 rooms for day and night, an ambulatory, tanks, and gardens of fruit 

 and flower trees, and around the whole a wall 18 cubits in height. 

 According to this description the Jetavana must' have included not 

 only the great ruined mound now called Jogini-oaria, but all the ruins 

 to the east and north of it, unless it extended to the westward, where 

 there are no remains at present existing. But as I can show that most 

 of the ruins to the east correspond with the descriptions which Fa 

 Hian and Hwen Thsang have given of many of the holy places out- 

 side the Jetavana, it is certain that the original monastery must have 

 been confined to the Jogini-Baria only, and that the other buildings, 

 with the tanks and gardens, were outside the walls of the Jetavana 

 itself, although it is most probable that many of thorn were connected 

 together by different enclosing walls. When the Jetavana was com- 

 pleted by Sudatta, the Prince Jeta expended the whole of his purchase 

 money in adding a palace, seven stories in height, to each of the four 

 sides of the garden, It is probably to these palaces that Fa Hian 



