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which is situated in the midst of a very large grove of trees. The 

 present grove is said to have been planted only two generations back, 

 but the trees about the village itself are of great age, and the name of 

 Gulariya points to some remarkable Gular tree as more ancient than 

 the village itself. The legend attached to this spot is sufficiently 

 marvellous. Five hundred brigands, having been blinded by order of 

 King Prasenajita, attracted the commiseration of Buddha, who re- 

 stored their sight. The five hundred men who had thus recovered 

 their eyesight, threw away their staves, or according to Fa Hian, 

 planted them in the ground, when they immediately took root, and 

 grew to be a large grove, which was called the " Wood of the Recover- 

 ed Eyes." The monks of Jetavana were in the habit of repairing to 

 this grove for exercise and meditation, and all the spots which holy 

 Buddhists had made famous by their meditations were marked by 

 inscriptions or by Stupas. There is one small brick mound to the east 

 of the grove, but I could find no trace of any inscriptions, although 

 rewards were offered for even a single letter. 



348. We now come to the second great monument of Srdvasti, the 

 celebrated Purvvdrdma, or "Eastern Monastery," which was built by 

 the lady Visdkhd, who has already been mentioned in my account of 

 Sahet. Fa Hian places this monument at 6 or 7 li, or rather more 

 than a mile, to the north-east of the Jetavana. But this bearing is cer- 

 tainly wrong, as it would carry us right into the middle of the old city. 

 I would therefore read " south-east," which is the direction of a very 

 large mound, called Ora-jhdr, or " Basket-shakings," that is upwards 

 of a mile from the Jetavana. Hwen Thsang places the Vihdra, and 

 Stupa of Visakha at more than 4 li, or upwards of 3,500 feet, to the 

 east of the " shadow-covered temple " of the Brahmans. Now, the 

 Ora-jhdr mound is just 4,000 feet to the south-east of the ruined 

 mound, which I have already identified with the Brahmanical temple. 

 I am therefore quite satisfied that it is the remains of the great Vihdra 

 of the Purvvdrdma, or Eastern Monastery. Hwen Thsang's account 

 of this famous monastery is meagre ; his whole description being 

 limited to the fact that " in this place Buddha overcame the Brahmans, 

 and received an invitation from a lady named Visakha." Fa Hian's 

 notice is equally brief. We must therefore turn to the Ceylonese 

 annals for an account of the lady and her works. According to them 



