1865.] Report of the Archeological Survey. o6n™ 
nameless tank close to the south side of Visikha’s temple, and _there- 
fore in the very position indicated by Hwen Thsang; but there are 
no existing remains near it that could be identified with the Stupa of 
the 500 Sakya maidens. 
352. The monuments of Srdvasti hitherto described by the pilgrims 
are directly connected with the personal history of Buddha. The 
places where he sat and walked, where he taught his law, and where 
he worsted the Brahmans in argument, were all specially holy in the 
eyes of devout Buddhists. But these sacred monuments formed only 
a small portion of the Buddhist buildings of the great city of Sravasti, 
where, according to Hwen Thsang, the monuments were counted by 
hundreds. Fa Hian, however, quotes a tradition which limited their 
number to ninety-eight, at a period not remote from his own time, and 
as he visited the place nearly two centuries and a half earlier than Hwen 
Thsang, when most of the monasteries were in ruins, we may be gatis- 
fied that their number never reached one hundred even at the most 
flourishing period of Buddhism. I traced the ruins of nine monasteries 
in the immediate neighbourhood of the old city, and there are pro- 
bably as many more within a range of two miles, I found also the 
foundations of at least ten temples of various sizes, but they were all 
in too ruinous a state to be of any interest. But when I remember 
that the Jetavana itself, as well as nearly the whole of the ninety-eight 
monasteries of Srévasti were in complete ruin upwards of twelve 
centuries ago, I think it is more wonderful that so much should still 
be left for the use of the archeologist, than that so little should remain 
of all the magnificent buildings of this once famous city. 
. 
XX.—TANDA, OR TADWA. 
353. From Srdvasti both pilgrims proceeded to visit the birth-place 
of Kasyapa Buddha, at Zu-wei, which Fa Hian places at 50 li, or 82 
miles to the west. Hwen Thsang does not name the town, but he states 
that it was about 60 l, or 10 miles, to the north-west of Sravasti. The 
bearing and distance point to the village of Tadwa, which is just 9 
miles to the west of Sahet-mahet. Some people refer this name to 
Tanda, because for the last hundred years the Banjaras have been in the 
habit of halting, or of making their tanda, at this place. But the 
people themselves spell the name of their village Tadwa, and not Tanda, 
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