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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 Jefavana 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 Stwpas. 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-jhar, or “ Basket-shakings,” that is upwards 
of a mile from the Jetavana. Hwen Thsang places the Vihdéra and 
Stupa of Visdkha at more than 4 lz, or upwards of 3,500 feet, to the 
east of the “‘ shadow-covered temple” of the Brahmans. Now, the 
Ora-jhér 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 Purvudrdma, 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 Visékha.” 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 

