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Visikha was the daughter of Dhananja, a wealthy merchant of Sdket. 
At 15 years of age she was married to Purnna-Vardhana, the son of 
Migdra, a rich merchant of Srdvast:, and from that time her whole 
life was spent in the observance of the religious rites of Buddhism. 
She was the means of converting her father-in-law Migéra, and “ she 
was called in consequence” Migdra-Mdatdwi, and became the mother 
or chief of the Updsekawas, or female lay-disciples of Buddha. To- 
wards the end of her career she determined to sell her wedding 
ornaments to obtain funds for the erection of a Vihdra, “but there 
was no one in Sewet who had wealth enough to purchase them. She 
therefore bought a garden at the east side of the city, and expend- 
ed iminense treasures in the erection of a Vihdra, which was called 
Purvvdréma, or the Eastern Monastery, from the place in which it 
stood.” 
349. The great mound, now called Ora-jhdr, is a solid mass of 
earth 70 feet in height, which was formerly crowned by a brick temple. 
Within the last century a Musalman Fakir, who had lived under the 
trees at the foot of the mound, was buried in a tomb on the very top 
of it, which was built with the bricks of the ruin. Some years later 
his successor was buried beside him, and their two tombs at present 
preclude all hope of making any excavation from the top of the mound. 
I cleared the north face completely, and the other three faces partially, 
until I reached the paved brick flooring which surrounded the original 
Buddhist temple, at a height of 55 feet above the ground. The wall 
of the temple on the north face is only 20 feet long, and although I 
failed to reach the other two corners of the building, I was satisfied 
that it must have been square. Its height, at 3} times its side, would 
not therefore have been more than 70 feet, but as its floor is 55 feet 
above the ground, the total height of the temple would have been 125 
feet. The wall ofthe north face is divided into four panels by pilasters 
six inches thick. The bases of these pilasters, which are still very 
perfect, are of the same style as those at Gaya and Baragaon in Bihar, 
and of Manikyala and Shah Dheri in the Punjab. The style would 
therefore seem to be one that was peculiar to early Buddhism. The 
other faces of the temple I was unable to examine, as the foundations 
of the Muhammadan tomb, which are only 24 feet above the broken 
walls of the temple, project 16 feet beyond its east and west faces. 
