1872.] A. M. Broadley — The Buddhistic Remains of Bihar. 215 
‘ He reflected on the foulness of his own body, and ate without further 
aversion. He finished his meal, rinsed his mouth, washed his pan, and re- 
placed it in his wallet, and seated himself in a position of contemplation on 
the rocky clift. 
‘ Then the officers who had been set to watch him, returned and told king 
Bimbisara that he was certainly a man ; and the king desiring to converse 
with him, called for his royal palankeen, and attended by a great train of 
noblemen and soldiers, went forth to seek him at the Banthawa Hills. 
< Sitting on a rocky slab, the king gazed with delight at the grand being, 
and observed the grace of his manners and thus addressed him : 
“ Man of beauty, whence comest thou ?” 
' ‘ Most excellent lord, I come from the country of Sakya.’ 
“ Prom what Sakya country ?” 
* Prom the royal city, Kapila.’ 
« The king continued to question him as to his caste, family, and name, 
and was informed in answer, that he was of the royal race (caste) of the 
Sakyas, the son of king Suddhodana and named Siddhartha. 
‘ Now king Bimbisara and the prince Siddhartha were on most friendly 
terms. Though they had never met, and did not know each other by sight, 
they were in the constant habit of exchanging presents as tokens of good 
will, and when the grand being announced his name, the king was assured, 
beyond all doubt, by his admirable manners and language, that it was none 
other than his friend. 
‘ He reflected that perhaps the prince had fled from his country on ac- 
count of some family quarrel, and under that impression, he invited him to 
share his power — to rule over half the great country of Magadha. Then 
the grand being told him the reasons, the object for which he had resigned 
the empire of the world. He told him of the four sights which had in- 
fluenced his thoughts, and of his determination to achieve the omniscient 
Buddhahood. And the king having obtained from him a promise that after 
the attainment of omniscience, he would first teach in Rajagriha, did homage, 
and returned to his city.’ 
In Hr. Bigandet’s Life of the Burmese Buddha, we find a great deal 
more allusion made to Rajgir than in Mr. Alabaster’s translation from the 
Siamese.* He tells us that Buddha set out for Bajgir [Radzagio], and halt- 
ed in a grove of palm trees a short distance from the city, where he was met 
by Bimbisara [Pimpattara] at the head of 120,000 warriors, to whom he 
delivered a religious discourse. Next day he made a triumphal entry into 
Rajgir. “ Then Pimpattara, king of Magaritz [Magadha], thought within 
himself of the thing which could prove acceptable to Phra, in order 
to offer it to him. He said within himself : my garden, which is situated 
* P. 101, etc. 
