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was found to be 18 Kotis, or 180 millions of maswrans. 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 maswran 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 that 
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 vihdr, 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-baria, 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 thom 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 

