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A. M. Broadley — The Buddhistic Remains of Bihar. [No. 3, 
To the north of Rohoi I have not succeeded in finding any Buddhist 
remains, and those to the east are of very little importance. At a village 
called Kalta, seven miles east of Bihar, there are the remains of a large stupa, 
and at another village which adjoins it to the south, called Jeya (Jiar), there 
is one of those beautiful tanks of clear water, surrounded by luxuriant groves 
of mangoe and pipal trees, which generally bordered the site of a Buddhist 
monastery. As might be expected there is a pile of ruins to the south of 
the pond, and a large heap of broken images, chaityas, and pillars. 
IX.— Ra'jagriha in the Maha'wanso. 
The pages of Mr. Turnour’s elaborate work contain frequent allusions 
to Bihar or, more correctly speaking, to Magadha. In the second chapter, 
referring to the events which occurred some time about the year B. C. 543, 
we learn that Bimbisaro was the “ attached friend” of Siddhatto (S&khya 
Muni), that he had been placed on the throne of Rajagriha, (which the 
translator mistakes for Rajmahall) by his father Bhatiyo in the fifteenth 
year of his ago, that it was sixteen years subsequent to this event that the 
divine teacher propounded his doctrines to him, and that he continued to 
reign thirty-seven years after his conversion to the Buddhist faith. He was 
slain by his son Ajatasatru (the founder of new Rajagrilia), the eighth 
year of whose reign saw the death of the sage, and who continued to rule in 
Magadha after this event for the space of twenty-four years. This inform- 
ation is very important in fixing the date of the removal of the capital 
to new Rajagriha. The death of S&khya Muni was succeeded by a period 
of fasting and lamentation, during which the sacred edifices of the town were 
repaired. After this, the the'ros, with Maha Kasyapa at their head, ap- 
proached the monarch, and asked him to build for them “ a session hall.” 
He granted their request, and erected a splendid chamber in the place 
named by them, viz., hi/ the side of the Wehhdra [Baibhar] mountain, 
at the entrance of the Sattapanni cave. This confirms in every respect tho 
identification of the cave made in Chapter IV. He then records the reigns 
of the four succeeding kings of Rajagriha, who all appear to have gained 
the throne by the murders of their fathers and immediate predecessors, and 
that finally some ninety years after the death of Buddha, the last scion of 
the paricidal race was deposed, and one Susanfigo elected in his stead. A 
few years later, Rajagriha became the head quarters of one of tho schisms in 
the Buddhistic Church, which had now begun to spring up on all sides. 
The founder of the new dynasty had a son called Kalasoko, who was suc- 
ceeded by his ten sons reigning conjointly for some forty-four years. The 
last surviving brother was slain in Rajagriha by a Brahman, named Chanaka, 
who placed a member of the old Moriyan dynasty, (one Chandagatto) on 
the throne, who reigned for thirty-four years. His son Bindusaro ruled 
