1901.] 
W. Hoey— Supplement to Note on Vaisali. 
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Supplement to Note on Vaisali and other places mentioned hy the 
Buddhist pilgrims.—By W. Hoey, Esq., Litt. D. 
(With Plates I and II.) 
[Read January, 1901.] 
[This paper is an additional Note to the article by the same author on the 
identification of Kusinara, Vaisali and other places mentioned by the Chinese 
pilgrims, published in this Journal, Vol. LXIX, 1900, Part I, pp. 74 ff. A map 
illustrating the same, and a facsimile plate of the Inscription of Jayadityadeva II. 
(see l.c., p. 88 f.) are issued together with it.— Ed.'] 
In October 1899, just before leaving India, I paid a visit to Sewan 
and some other places in the Chupra district, which seemed to me to 
invite examination. The result I desire to append to the article al¬ 
ready submitted to the Society. 
The first place to which I would call attention is Titaria, west of 
Sewan, between the Daha and Sondi rivers. It is remarkable for a 
very bold and massive stupa, which is visible from a great distance. 
An obvious derivation suggests what this locality will probably prove 
to be. It would not require much reflection to recall the word titar 
(Sansc. tittiri), meaning a partridge. Now, in Hwen Thsang’s Record 
we find it said that, beside the great brick vihara, in which was the 
figure representing the Nirvana, and its adjacent stupa with the pillar 
bearing a note of that fact, there was another stupa, built to commemo¬ 
rate the bird which plunged into the water and flying up shook its 
wings over a forest fire to extinguish it. Mr. Beal has rendered the 
Chinese word used to denote the bird by * pheasant,’ but this may be 
an error, or indeed the pilgrim may have been in error. The pheasant 
is not known in the plains of India, as far as my knowledge goes, but 
the partridge and the sand-grouse, both known as titar, do occur : and 
I venture to think that Titaria is the place referred to by Hwen Thsang. 
In that case the huge stupa in its neighbourhood would probably be 
that before which stood the pillar recording the fact of the Nirvana. 
I was not able to go to the stupa myself for the country round was 
flooded after the rains. 
