964 On the route of Fa -hi an through, Behar. [Sept. 



along the right bank of the Phulgo (the Lillajun is here so called) 

 to Bukrowr and Buddha Gaya, which is directly opposite across the 

 Lillajun, and here again he makes no mention of that great river (it is 

 next to impossible (now that no tradition even is left) to trace each 

 particular spot, it would seem certain however, that one tree was at 

 Bukrowr and the other at Bodh Gaya, which tree is now called the 

 Sutjug Peepul, the first I assume to be " Ni-kiu-liu" " the tree of all 

 the Buddhas." The second, Pei-to " there have been Chaityas at both 

 places, and no doubt long before Fa-Hian's time, there was, as I have 

 mentioned in my " Notes on the sculptures of Budh Gaya,'! more than 

 one very ancient Dagope, and I believe the trees to have had enclosures 

 as represented in those sculptures, also in the caves of Kundgirri in 

 Cuttack and in other Buddhist sculptures. The hill beneath which is 

 Moratal lake, lies about two miles or less north of Bukrowr : there are 

 spots on this hill still venerated by the Hindoos, and as it runs north 

 and south, consequently faces west, and as the distance answers tolera- 

 bly well, I should be inclined to consider it to be that alluded to, on 

 which " Buddha sat facing the west." 



Bukrowr is due east of Buddha Gaya, having only the wide bed of the 

 river between them, the large tumulus and remains of a Dagope may 

 be three furlongs or even half a mile due east of the great Budh Mun- 

 dir and Peepul tree. About a furlong east by south of the tumulus is 

 a tank held sacred by both Buddhist and Hindus, it is not far from the 

 banks of the Mohana, on the narrow tongue of land which extends up 

 from the junction of the two rivers, where both take the common name 

 of Phulgo. 



There are several large tanks at Budh Gaya and the mounds of 

 brick, clay and pottery extend over a very great surface, the great 

 Dagopes must have stood very close to the tree : and were excavations 

 carried on, it is possible many more curious sculptures would come to 

 light, — but to continue. 



" To the south-west a little more than half a yeou yan is the Pei-to 

 tree where all the Foes past, and to come, should accomplish the 

 law. Having said this, they sang to him and showed him the way, 

 retiring. The Phou sa rose, and when he was thirty paces from the 

 tree, a god gave him the grass of happy omen ; the Phou sa took it 

 and advanced fifteen paces further. Five hundred blue birds ap- 



