95 1 On the route of Fa-Man through Behar . [Sept, 



in honor of him. The king of heaven Chy questioned Foe regard- 

 ing the forty-two things, drawing every one of them with his finger upon 

 the stone : the traces of these drawings remain there still. In this place 

 there is also a Seng-Jeia-lan, (monastery.)" 



Now, first of all, as to the " isolated rock" and the " monastery," 

 these two remarkable objects are surely not to be mistaken ! As to the 

 first, there is a bare rock near the site of the fort of Behar, on which 

 is placed a durgah or shrine of a Muhammadan saint, as well as traces 

 of other buildings ; there is no tradition concerning its being held sacred 

 by Hindus or Jains, that I could learn, though Behar itself is venerated 

 by the latter : however, the very fact of a " Sheheed's durgah" or 

 shrine of a Muhammadan martyr would strengthen my belief, that some 

 sanctity was attached to the site at the time of the fall of the Moslem 

 there enshrined, such being invariably the case in all parts of India. 

 I, therefore, presume, that this is the " little hill of the isolated rock," 

 and the " Seng-kia-lan" or monastery was the great Vihara from which 

 Behar takes its name, the site of it being now occupied by the ruins 

 of Sher Shah's fort. 



Buchanan (see Montgomery Martin's compilation) vol. I. p. 92, 

 adds, that there is also a large conical mound called a punzawa (brick- 

 kiln) a name given as we shall see to other mounds of the same kind 

 which were undoubtedly Dehgopes or Chaityas : I would refer my 

 readers for more ample details to the above named work : other hills 

 are also named. 



I have taken much pains to ascertain, whether Behar anciently bore 

 any other name than simply Vihar, but have been unsuccessful, though 

 I am inclined to think it must have, so greatly have the names of places 

 changed, and so many cities have been razed to the ground, that the 

 locality must ever be a difficult point to decide, nothing indeed except 

 such circumstantial records, as our Chinese traveller affords, could help 

 us out of the difficulty ; in this light, for one, then, are his travels 

 valuable, and tracing his track may not be a profitless undertaking. 



We must now leave Behar and proceed to the South West. 



" Thence proceeding to the S. W. for one yeou yanyou come to the 

 hamlet of Na-lo. This is the place where Che-U-foc (Sariputra) 

 was born, and here he entered nirvana. They have here built a tower, 

 which still exists." 



