500 Sanscrit Inscription from Behar. [June, 



tion of which Yn tho shi lo gu ho, (T^fo^TT JT^T, Indrasailaguha, or 

 the ■ rock cave of Indra') the original name may be easily recognised. 

 It is the most easterly of the range of hills in which Rajagriha was 

 situated, and was famous among Bhuddists as the spot where Sakya is 

 fabled to have propounded the greater part of the Prajnd Paramitd. 



With regard to Naianda, which appears to have puzzled the Pandits 

 of Benares, it appears to me to be the name of the famous monastery near 

 Rajagriha frequently mentioned in the Dul-va ; and on requesting Babu 

 Rajendralal to ascertain if the passage would admit of this interpreta- 

 tion, he writes :— " I have very carefully examined the sloka you allude 

 to, and think «TT^r^T is the name of a place. The expressions, 

 •TO^T'qf'rTTT^rTST, "for the preservation of Naianda," and •TTW^TT^iT- 

 ft*TT%cr, " preserved by Naianda," favour this supposition, and there 

 is nothing against it. But as I have never met with this word in 

 Sanskrita, and have not got a copy of Hemachandra's Dictionary of 

 Bauddha terms at hand to refer to, I cannot be very positive. I may 

 add, however, that Pundit Jayanarayana Vidyalankara of the Sanskrita 

 College of Calcutta, is of the same opinion with myself, and believes 

 Naianda to be the name of a place." 



Naianda was a very famous place in its day, and the frequent scene of 

 Sakya' s disputations. It is the Na Ian tho of the Chinese, the site of 

 which, however, could hardly be identical with that of Gusserawa, 

 where Capt. Kittoe discovered the inscription. 



Before quitting this still unexhausted locality, I may take this occa- 

 sion of mentioning another identification which cannot fail to interest 

 such as are engaged in the investigation of Buddhist antiquities ; I mean 

 that of the Sattapanni cave, the scene of the " first convocation on reli- 

 gion," an ample account of which may be found in Mr. Tumour's 

 extracts from the Pali Buddhistical Annals (J. A. S. vol. VI, p. 510.) 

 and in the third chapter of the Mahawanso. It is there narrated that 

 the convocation in question was held in the 8th year of the reign of 

 Ajatasatru, six months after the death of Buddha, in a magnificent hall 

 in front of the Sattapanni cave, in the Webharo mountain, — one of the 

 hills that surround the ancient city of Rajagriha. Fa hian in his ac- 

 count of that city mentions the scene of the first convocation, and the 

 "grot of Pin pho lo" or " Pi pho lo" lying 300 paces to the west of 

 the pass or valley that leads from the old to the new Rajagriha ; a site 



